Greetings friends,
This is a short post, as I completed this project in a bit of a hurry and didn't take as many photos as I usually do. The goal here was to build a small bookshelf for my repair manuals and reference books, so I can store them in my workshop instead of on my large bookshelf with other unrelated books.
I wanted the shelves to be 12" tall to snugly fit all my manuals, and decided on a 3-shelf design so the whole bookshelf would be around 3 feet tall. This allowed for 2 shelves for manuals and one half-shelf on top for whatever other books I want to have handy.
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| Sanded, pre-finish. |
I sourced some ash lumber from my local hardwood store, and ripped the pieces to size and planed them to my final thickness (~3/4"). For two of the three shelves, I had to glue up board to make wider panels, but after planing, they look quite seamless. I cut rabbets into the side pieces, which the shelves then glued snugly into. I made a mistake cutting the first (bottom) rabbets, not accounting for my kerf thickness, but some shims made from the same wood hid that mistake well. I finished the shelf with my favorite oil-based wood finish, Arm-R-Seal semi-gloss.
Thanks for reading,
Juju