Rotating Bookshelf !!

Avid readers are constantly running out of room on their bookshelves with every book they read and buy. We have created a solution for readers who want a visually stimulating and interactive bookshelf. This rotating bookcase also allows the user to easily change between displays, genres and aesthetics based on a certain occasion (e.g. season, month, etc.), instead of having to completely restock the shelf. This rotating bookshelf could be used for anything from personal use to libraries, bookstores, and schools. 

 This is how we made our bookshelf, with three circular shelves, each individually rotating around a pole in the center. Feel free to use this to make your own rotating bookshelf!

• 0.75” plywood
• 2x2 wood
• Two 12” lazy susan bearings
• One 6” square lazy susan bearings
• Screws 
• Chosen paint

We decided to cut the shelves using a CNC shop bot. The design of each piece was created on Onshape as a sketch, and then exported onto our shop bot. We secured the 3/4" plywood to the shop bot and turned it on. When using this machine it is important to keep an eye on it to ensure nothing goes wrong.

Using a chop saw cut eight 14" pieces of the 2"x2" wood, these will be the vertical parts of the frame. Then cut four 6" and four 2" pieces from the 2"x2" wood, these will be the horizontal parts of the frame supports.

Mark one inch squares on the tops and bottoms of each 14" long piece, using a countersink drill bit, drill the necessary pilot holes for the assembly: two in each corner of the 14" long pieces, two in the middle of the 6" pieces, and one in the middle of the 3" pieces. Make sure the drill can fit easily, when the side pieces are attached to the 6" pieces.

Using 2" countersink Phillips screws, secure the frames. There should be two 14" by 9" frames (outside dimensions) and two 14" by 6" frames.

This is your chance to paint all the pieces that you've cut, however you like. We chose to paint ours with white spray paint. Keep in mind the most important parts to paint, the parts that will be most visible, will be the tops of the shelves, their edges, and the sides of the frames going all around (not the top or bottom).

You previously have cut out the shelves and the bases for the shelves. Now is time to connect the base to the bearing to the shelves! Starting bottom up you will attach one of your 12" bearings to the biggest (25") circle base (use whatever tools you have available to center it as best as possible). Before putting any screws in you want to mark where they'll go and create your two bigger guide holes in the base that will be used when attaching the bearing to the shelf. Once everything is marked and the guide holes are cut, you will begin screwing the bearing onto the base. After that you will place the bearing side of the base on the bottom of the 22" shelf and use the guide holes put in the base to screw the bearing onto the shelf. You should now have one functioning rotating shelf!! Now you will repeat these steps with the other two shelves. The 14" base, 12" bearing, and 18" shelf will be the second level and the 10" base, 6" square bearing, and 14" shelf will be the third level.

Measure 3" out from each side of the center of the bottom shelf. Do the same to the bottom of the largest support disk. With the help of a clamp or another person, secure the larger frames (14" by 9") through the pilot holes. Attach to the support disk first, then to the bottom shelf

Next, measure 1.5" out from each side of the center of the middle shelf. Do the same to the second largest support disk. Secure the smaller frames (14" by 6") through the pilot holes. Attach to the support disk first, then to the middle shelf