#woodworkin — Public Fediverse posts

Oh ahaha, I never posted about the end of the bookshelves project! I finished them and they turned out great!*

I realised quickly that because I had decided to use dowels for joints that I was going to need a backing board screwed on or else the thing would just flop over under load, so back to the plywood shoppe for some 4mm ply.

Fasteningthe backboard it was a bit of a challenge - I didn't have any cmalping long enough so I really needed to keep it upright for the dowel joints to stay snug, but then I couldn't easily position or fasten the backboard flat. Lying it down on it's front, I could get the backboard flat, but then the joints were out.

So I decided to do both. Fasten the backboard to the verticals when it was lying on its front, then stand it up, and fasten the horizontals. It worked well!

Also, we decided to leave it unfinished for the moment. Would have been nice to stain and coat it, but I was working to a timeline of a quickly approaching dinner party, and also we just wanted it done, and not having a shed to apply the coats meant that the house would have stunk of fumes for weeks.

Anyway, it was a fun project, and I leant a lot, and I'm not a lot more confident about doing some carpentry! Wins all around.

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