Folding Table to Shelves

 I was inspired to make this table by my woodworking hero, Izzy Swan!! I made it to take to Art and Craft shows for extra display space. The goal was to have it foldable and as light as possible yet be durable.
 
 The shelf surfaces are 5/8" x12" x30" maple plywood that has been hollowed out in back to reduce their weight by 11 #.
 The frame work is solid walnut. The moveable frame that the shelves are mounted to is made from aluminum angle and box elder rails- all painted satin black. All the fasteners are machine screws into threaded inserts in the wood ( with the exception of the screws that hold the shelves on). I used shoulder bolts for the shelf pivots so they can be fully tightened and yet swivel. There are headed Delrin pins for the pivots of the folding frame sections.
 
 I added a lock block on each side to hold the unit vertical or horizontal. I originally had only one block , but it twisted in the horizontal position so the other one fixed that. There was a lot of tweaking once it was assembled.
 
 It has 4 lockable casters that are screwed into inserts in the base.
 
 The shelves are finished with Satin Poly and all the walnut pieces are finished with boiled linseed oil and buffed and waxed.The top is 30" x 60" and the whole unit is 34" wide and 30" high and the base is 30" long and the whole unit came in at 39#. I oiled and buffed the walnut so it did not have any "build" on the surface that would have made it tighter to fold.
After I had it set up as a set of shelves, I found that by putting them at and angle they looked more pleasing as display at s show so I added another threaded hole in the aluminum plate to have the sit at about 30 degrees.

Cheers, Jim