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Re: [Shop-talk] Levelling bookcases

To: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Levelling bookcases
From: Mike Lee <mikel@ichips.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:33:00 -0700
>Here's one for a quiet Saturday. I'm installing a couple of walls'  
>worth of Ikea bookcases. They will sit on an 80 year old hardwood  
>floor which is no longer close to level. I need something that will  
>"disappear" under the doubled up 1x supports of the bookcases.  
>Softwood shims are too soft and are wider than what they need to  
>support. Any idea what would work here? Thin hardwood shims would be  
>ideal but I've never seen them.

I have purchased both plastic and "composite" (plastic mixed with wood fiber) 
shims at Home Depot; those may work for you...
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