In today's digital world, book-bound photo albums are almost an anachronism. Not quite yet but a new generation of photo-viewing families are already in kindergarten today. By the time they have their own children the photo album will reside solely in the cloud. Meanwhile my wife promises that she's done with the last of the album binders. She had come around to storing photos into her desk top computer. However, she still wanted to hold on to those bulky collections already in the library shelves.
The challenge was to come up with a dividing system for the albums - one that will keep the binders upright and independently stand-alone so that removing one does not get the others to lean like multiple Towers of Pisa.
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| Plastic dividers work but so much space is wasted |
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| Compare the top two shelves to the bottom one that has the first divider system already in place. |
The dividers are from 1/4 inch oak plywood. The rail that will hold each of them is from 1/2 inch oak plywood ripped to 2-inch-wide planks.
For aesthetics, they were cut with a taper. 3/16 inch wide dadoes were cut to 1/4 inch deep, spaced 4 inches apart. Each section will hold snugly two albums.
The dividers were secured with glue and clamped until dry.
The completed system (below) insures the albums to remain perfectly upright even if one or several are removed.
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