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BOOKEND sa BOOKEND -- CERAMIC Laminated bookends. Thin sheets of wood and veneer are laminated to a core block of wood which has a cavity filled with lead ballast. Veneer-laminated bookends (4"x2"x6" high) have lead-filled centers to support large books. Book ends are made from child's alphabet blocks. Lilliputian house to use as a doorstop or bookend for oversized books. Estimated cost: $16. Needlepoint slipcover for metal bookends. Estimated cost: $16. Rooster bookends made from brightly painted particleboard shapes. Est. cost: $7. Pair of wooden-bear bookends. Est. cost: $5. Home Sweet bookends are made from milk cartons decorated with paper to look like houses. Old decoys can be used for bookends or planters. How to build adjustable bookends. Tip on how to make a set of bookends from a pine board. Rope 'n pine bookends are made from pine scraps. Decorative pieces of rope, tied with bowline knots, are mounted between the bases and uprights. Castle gate bookends. Make a pair of "Pedro" bookends. Simple L-shaped sports bookends are fitted with painted wooden shapes representing a baseball, football, helmet, etc. Country canisters. A wooden canister set with two compartments is shaped like a half-barn. Make two of them and your have a total of four storage compartments (accessed by removing the roof sections) which serve as bookends for cookbooks. Book ends for a woodworker feature a hammer whose handle "passes through" the stack of books being supported. Wooden bookends feature little painted houses reminiscent of primitive folk art. Apple-shaped cover for a metal bookend is needlepointed. It includes a pocket to hold pencils and pad of paper. Photo frame bookends are needlepointed in chenille and highlighted with gold braid. A is for Apples projects. (1) Red and white gingham dish towel is appliqued with an apple motif and trimmed with a ruffle. (2) Metal bookends are painted with apple motifs. (3) Clay saucer clock is painted with "Apple Time", numbers at 3, 6, 9 and 12, and a checked border. Split wooden apples mark the other numerals. How to make a pair of bookends for a sewing room from old treadle sewing machine drawers. How to get the most out of your seashells. Instructions for making a towel holder, a shell nightlight, shell bookends, shell paperweight, and a sea urchin nightlight. Sleepy Santa wooden bookends to paint in acrylics. Heart-shaped wooden bookends. Simple wood bookends feature unicorn heads. Pattern for wooden bird bookends. They are cut from thick wood and painted to look like a Toucan bird. Est. cost: $5. Small planters done on plastic canvas with needlepoint. (1) Checkerboard pattern box can also be used as bookends. (2) Baby shoe style. (3) Ruffle-topped white basket. Est. cost: $5 each. Pressed flower bookends and wall pictures are made the same way. Est. cost: $16 per set. Profiles of cats and chickens are cut from wood, painted and used for doorstops, bookends, decoration, etc. Wooden bookends are decorated with antique glass insulators from telephone poles. Make bookshelves with a built-in, adjustable bookend held in place with a large wing nut. Sliding bookend is held in place with a dovetail slot cut into book shelf and a matching key on the bottom of the wooden bookend. Make gemstone bookends from large pieces of petrified wood or other colorful rock material. Calico cat. Weighted to sit 12" tall on its own four paws. Use as doorstop or bookend. Burlap-sack bookends are stuffed with bricks. Triangular-shaped bookend made from birch plywood. Tip: Use clear acrylic plastic to keep books from falling out the ends of steel shelving. Plexiglas bookend has holes for two small flower pots. Slab saw techniques for bookends and clocks. Gemstone bookends, an easy beginners project. Four floral needlepoint projects: (1) Bookend slipcovers. (2) Pincushion. (3) 3-inch square picture. (4) Pencil holder. "Shelf elf" bookends are cut from pine, painted and have striped stuffed stockings on their dowel "legs." Laminated bookends shaped like letters of the alphabet. Cutout photos mounted on wood make novel bookends. No-book-end bookends use old books with pages cut out to allow mounting over a wooden frame. Book end is shaped like the top of an arch. It features a carved two-masted sailboat against a background of a veneered sunburst. Bride-and-groom bookends make a unique wedding gift. Built entirely of wood. Carved bookend features the profile of an old, three-masted sailing ship, under full sail on a sea of waves. Lathe turned bookends involves making a large turning in the profile of Abraham Lincoln, and then slicing the turning in half to form two bookends. Make stuffed "elephant" bookends. Set of needlepoint bookend covers. How to build photogenic bookends. Simple wooden bookends are decorated with old camera equipment and lenses. Animal-shaped bookends for Christmas gifts. Train-Tunnel book ends. Glue photos of people, pets or other personal objects to wood, jigsaw them out and incorporate the picture into a personalized book end. Initial book ends you can make. Letters 6" tall are cut from wood laminated with plastic. Patterns for all letters, A to Z, included. Modern-design "sculptured" book ends made by gluing odd shaped scrap wood pieces together. Stylized bookends are shaped and painted to look like crayons, pencils and pens standing in a row. "Saw Bookends" feature a handsaw which appears to go through the books being supported. Adjustable bookends are added to wall-mounted adjustable bookshelves by drilling holes at regular intervals in the shelves into which the bookends fit. Particularly good for shelving which uses wall-mounted metal standards and brackets onto which the shelf sits. Adjustable bookends fit tightly between two groups of books on a bookshelf. The open area between the books may then be used to display small glassware with no danger of the books falling over and dislodging the display. Dinosaur bookends. Wooden profile is cut in half and each half is fastened to a simple L-shaped bookend. Bookends shaped like a house have architectural details in contrasting wood. Architectural bookends. Turn scrap pieces of curly maple, walnut, and cherry into bookends that simulate the facade of a classical Greek or Roman building. End-of-the-shelf book holder is cut from 2x10 oak with a slot so it will slide onto a bookshelf. Freestanding wooden bookends to hold big books securely. Ends slide along a wooden spine but bind when book leans against them. Handsaw bookends. Simple wooden bookends feature a "handsaw" which appears to pass through the stack of books. Hand-shaped bookends made of plaster molded in rubber gloves. Bookends slip onto a shelf and "lock" in place with the pressure of a book. Train-tunnel bookends. Uprights are shaped like ends of a tunnel. A locomotive is coming out of one while the caboose is entering the other. Hardwood bookends feature uprights that are shaped like books. Pair of bookends look like a classical column-pediment-entablature and are made from ash, padauk, walnut and oak. Simple bookends made from the scrap left over when a circular bowl turning blank is band sawn out of the middle of a square piece of thick wood. Wooden bookends are representations of classical-style turned columns supporting an arch and cornice. Wooden bookends feature a brass base plate to keep them from tilting or sliding under the weight of the books. Scroll-sawn panels set in frames and backed with brass make attractive bookends. Three patterns included (pineapple, stag, classic scroll). One for the books. Bookends incorporate split turnings with various cross-sectional shapes (heart, batman, triangle, etc.). Wooden bookends have a figure on each end of a sawer, and their crosscut saw appears to pass through the books being supported. Simple wooden bookends are fabricated by attaching veneer-decorated plywood to an L-shaped piece of sheet metal. Tip: Weight the bottoms of book ends by placing lead fishing sinkers inside holes drilled in the base. Wooden book ends feature five decorative vertical grooves. Wooden bookends feature the profile of a cat "leaping through" the books. Katchina dancer bookends. L-shaped bookend features five layers of various color woods. Southwest-style motifs (cougar, cactus, Indian figure, ...) are scroll-sawn and added to the bookends. Wooden bookends feature Egyptian motifs representing Nefertiti and her husband (1379-1362 B.C.) seated between wooden columns supporting a portico. Art Deco style bookends are made from walnut and weighted with lead shot placed into the base. A circular weather instrument (barometer and thermometer) are inserted into each bookend. Log fence bookends. The big "Pilgrim" mounted on mahogany bases and backs for bookends. Cowboy/mustang bookends. Chessmen bookends. Light and dark wood turned to the shape of the chess pawn. Book ends look like a train passing through a tunnel. Two handtool projects involve making flower pot holders. (1) A wall mounted rack to hold 4 pots is topped with a "birdhouse" (2) Pair of bookends have cutouts for two pots in each bookend. Teen desk set. (1) Sturdy bookends with uprights that look like leather-bound books. (2) Notepad caddy keeps self-adhesive notepads and a pencil within reach. (3) File holder made from hoops of polished bronze brazing rods and wooden dowels. (4) Wooden pencil box. Classic quarter-circle bookends are made from simulated stone biocomposite material. | |||||||||
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