Art Festival Display Shelving

[DaveL]

Our club is participating in a art festival this summer and i am looking for plans and/or ideas on shelving to display our turnings. Any suggestions, plans, photos, or website links would be appreciated.

Thank You,
Dave

 

[dkulze]

no plans, Dave, but I can give you a quick description of what we use. Pine 1x10s cut to 4'(or5') 6" length. On each end, cut in at the corners 3"x3", giving the end of the board a tounge that is 4" wide and 3 deep. Cut a mortice (rectangular hole) in the tounge center that is 1 1/2" wide and goes from 2" in to 3" in. You should end up with a board with a slightly smaller tounge on each end with a rectangular hole in it.

Those are your shelves.

The sides are 1"x10" also. Cut slots in them for the tounges to push through and use wedges on the outside inserted through the hole in the tounge to set.

Easy to build, inexpensive (cheap), durable, works even with tollerances off up to 1/4", simple to set up, attractive, breaks down quickly and with no screws, and stores in small spaces.

Good luck,
Dietrich

 

[john lucas]

shelving

Dave
Whatever you decide on make it quick to set up, adjustable shelf heights and some way to level it. If you expect windy conditions make some way to anchor it as well.
I built 6 foot tall rectangles that are held together in the back with 8 screws going through 2 boards that fit in dadoed slots. I put levelers on the bottom and then bring plenty of small squares of different thicknesses to put under the levelers to help get the shelves level.
The shelves fit inside the rectangles and sit on 1/4" shelf brackets. I drilled holes every 2" up both sides of the rectangles. I made 3 shelves 3 1/2 feet long and 2 shelves 5 feet long. This way I can stagger them if necessary and have a shelf for tall items on the end.
I painted them an off white but I still think they should be somehow painted to go with a color scheme for thewhole booth. The paint should contrast well with wood and make the pieces stand out. It should be easy to touch up because you will ding them from time to time. I lift the rectangles stands natural wood but I don't know if that's a good idea. With my work on them it's almost too much wood. You want the people looking at the work and not the support.

 

[Steve Worcester]

At an art festival, I try to convey the look of a gallery of sorts. Better presentation (I feel) will help command a better selling price and convey a perception of worth on the product.
That said, here is a photo of my display. They are 2'x6' panels, hinged with removable pins and store as two panels together. They are a tempered pegboard covered in foam and fabric, framed with 1x3 that is painted. The panels fabric match the opposite side of the booth. They fit together and then go into the "feet" on the bottom. They are shimmed when put up so that I can go onto unlevel ground.
The shelves are made from BB plywood that is painted and trimmed in an exotic veneer that I made by slicing thin and sanding down. I then used cut down peg hooks that fit in a routed channel on the shelf.
This may be a bit more work than you want, but it does give you another idea.