Hi. So tomorrow is my fiancee's birthday,
and this, actually, is her birthday gift,
and I really hope she's going to like it.
I've spent some time working on it, and what
I wanted to do is I wanted to go ahead and
share with you how to make one of these yourself.
And what this is, is this is a Jeffersonian
bookstand, and as you can see, it revolves,
and it has these five different panels where
you can place books, and you can change the
angle so that you can read them how you like.
Now I originally saw this when Jessica and
I went down to Monticello this summer on vacation,
and there's one just like this, or very similar
to this, sitting in Jefferson's office. It
was made in the joinery at Monticello and
was probably based on one of his [Jefferson's]
own designs. It's a rather clever. It collapses
down into a cube, which of course, makes it
easy to transport.
Originally, I filmed the entire process. It
took me a little longer than I would have
liked it to, about thirty hours. Part of that
was because I made mistakes as I was going
along and had to change design aspects as
I was just going off of a picture, but I'm
not going to subject you to that, instead
I'm going to give you the sped-up version
because that's always the part I loved the
best of those home improvement shows is that
stop-motion photography bit. So you're going
to get a musical montage version of making
this, and then at the end, I'll include a
link to the measurements for you to download
your own plans. So I hope you enjoy watching
it as much as I enjoyed building it, and hopefully,
as much as Jessica will enjoy using the final
product.
Well you've got to love a musical montage.
It makes everything look so simple. If you'd
like to try your hand at this, I've included
a link to the materials, and to the measurements,
in the video's description.
It should also appear right... there.
But I hope you have a lot of fun, if you decide
to build this, building this. The materials
cost me roughly about a hundred dollars. That's
about a sixth as much as you'll find one of
these things going for on the Internet, and
of course, it took a lot of time, but I think
now that you've got a design, it should go
a lot faster for you, and I hope you enjoy
making one, or I just hope that you've enjoyed
the video, and I really hope Jess likes this.
So, thanks. This is a little bit of a different
video for me. Usually, I'm doing other stuff.
If you like this, let me know. Maybe I'll
do some more of these projects. Alright, thanks.
Bye.
