Yet another set of shelves, but this one is for good reason. I'm working on cleaning out the shop and this pile of wood has been taking up 20sf of floor space since 1993.
Here's a side panel. 5/4" thick (1" actual). Nice and sturdy. My usual black painted panels.
Dados on "the shelf-making-machine".
Only pipe clamps are long and strong enough to tighten up the shelves into the tight-fitting dados.
Tighten until the gap disappears.
And the real trick is "trammeling" the shelves -- measuring and correcting the diagonals until the shelf is square, before the glue dries.
Hey, back panels on and square, sanded and ready for finish.
First coat of Minwax semigloss varnish.
Here are the plans. The shelves were designed to use ALL of the remaining old growth fir that I had been carting around for 22 years. That is why they are exactly the size they turned out.
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