I want to build an in-home hangboard. A hangboard is literally a board with various pockets and crevices that you hang from your fingers on. It's used to train tendon "strength". Here's a picture of one in use.Various builds exist for mounting a hangboard on a door-frame chin-up bar, e.g. this. However the door frames in my (pretty old) apartment are off suspect quality, so I'd like to build a freestanding one.Here's where this gets hacky. I have these. Narrow Alera shelves, currently holding some big stacks of books. So why can't I remove the middle two shelves, throw a square of wood on top of the top shelf for weight distribution, mount another board of wood perpendicular to that (so it extends below the top shelf) and screw the hangboard into that piece of wood as normal? Here is a mockup of a sideview. Black is the metal shelving, orange is wood, blue is the hangboard.These shelves claim to be rated for 1000 pounds or something, and I'm well below 150. I'm not particularly tall either, so the space between the board and the bottom shelf only needs to be 5 feet or so for me to hangboard there comfortably. I have set the shelf up like this -- just the shelves, no hangboard or wood -- and it feels fine and stable. Is this stupid? via /r/DIY http://ift.tt/2gP4hEX
