Custom Industrial Bookcase with Surveyor's Stick
Hey friends! Hope everyone is finding some good junk these days.
I just finished this custom bookcase. I picked up the flat boards at an estate sale and put them all together and then added the custom pieces.
As you can see, there's some vintage surveyor's sticks on each side that are notched out at each shelf intersection and covered with a custom distressed piece of trim.
I torched the wood instead of staining it. Just trying some different things out. I sanded it all afterwards. I added some vintage locker number tags because I thought it would go really well with the style.
I used some watered down chalk paint on the sides so it would still retain the woodgrain.
The solid wood bar going across the middle is part of a handrail that was in an old church that went on the wall down some stairs. I notched out the back so it would rest on the shelf. I then cut some complimentary pieces to go on the sides and tied some vintage black hinge pieces to the whole look.
An extra piece at the bottom to extend the lip of the bottom shelf finished things off really well.
