Next up was to cut all the shelves to length. I didn’t worry about squaring up the rounded corners of the dado as they would be covered anyway. The next day I started by cleaning up the dados a bit with a chisel. It’s annoying trying to record a video when there is thunder in the background. Right after I finished the dados a storm blew through so I called it quits for the day. I accidentally screwed up and blew through the front on one of them so both bookcases ended up getting a rabbet on the top edge instead of a stopped rabbet. All but the very top dado, which was actually a rabbet. They stoped about a half inch from the front edge. I didn’t want the dados to be visible from the front of the bookcase so I chose stopped dados. So after two dados in the shop I decided to move the operation outside. Two bookcases with two side boards each and eight shelves each means 32 dados that are 1-1/2” wide, about 5/8” deep, and about 8” long. And I’m sure most everyone out there feels the same way. I absolutely HATE using a router without dust collection.
I say it a lot but having a dedicated miter saw station is and incredible convenience to have. This worked great in three passes.Īfter making the rabbets for the back panels I squared up one end and cut each side board to length on my miter saw. So instead I used my laminate router with a downcut spiral bit, the edge guide, and a hot-glued shopvac attachment for dust collection.
TWO BOOKSHELVES FULL
This would have been super quick to do with the table saw but because the boards aren’t exactly straight and they are a full eight feet long I doubt I would have gotten a consistent rabbet with a dado blade. The back panel of the bookcases will be inset on the sides. If you are interested in plans for the entire set CLICK HERE. For those interested in the convenience, I have a detailed set of plans available for this bookcase project at the bottom of this article. UPDATE: This is one piece of an entire bedroom set. The first step was to determine the straightest four boards for the sides. I let the material rest on stickers in my shop for a few days before I started this project. I wanted the bookcases to fit the dimensional lumber theme of the 2×4 and 2×6 bunk bed so I used 2x10x8 boards. We moved it to the other spare room in our house as it has much more natural light. This isn’t the room you saw at the end of the bunk bed video though. These bookcases were built for our guest room which features the bunk bed I made a few months back. “Bookcases” refuses to get scratched off the To-Do list. She filled both of them up the day we put them in the room. So this time my game plan was to make two very tall bookcases that would hopefully provide enough book storage space for the next year or so. She’s always had a lot more books than we’ve had space for. Unfortunately that bookcase was overflowing the day I completed it. If you’ve been following my content for a while you may remember that I already made her a bookcase a year or two ago. And because of that she has quite a collection of books. She says there’s something special about actually feeling the book and manually flipping pages that you don’t get with the digital versions on tablets these days.
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