Leg of Books

Step 9 Installation

To install this, we had a few inches of strap (12 inch strap) hanging off each end of the top book (7 inch book), and a lot of extra all thread.  I used a Dremmel tool to cut the all thread level with the top of the nut, but a hacksaw would work just as well.  Then I drilled two holes on the underside of the counter top, using a 1" forstner bit, that would house the nuts and allow the iron strap to sit flush with the underside of the counter.  I then drilled two small holes on either side of the strap that I used to pass screws through to fix the column in place.