Commissioned Bookshelf

A friend commissioned me to make a bookshelf to match one already in her apartment. The materials were pine, all from Home Depot. April - May 2012.

Rabbets and dados (thanks, high school wood shop vocabulary!) in the upright pieces. The table saw is acting as a work bench, and I used a router to make the grooves.

I don't have the equipment to mill boards, so I clamped these together in order to get them as flat as possible before assembly. 

some mock assembly to make sure everything fits

more mock assembly

Okay, for real this time. I had to do the center boards first, then the outer boards, due to clamp shortage. You can see the biscuits sticking up for where the facing will be attached. 

shaping up...

Clamping facing pieces to the front end of the shelves (for strength). I borrowed more clamps from the Berkeley Tool Lending Library (who were, happily, temporarily housed at the time in the building in which I work, since their building was being rebuilt). 

front of finished bookshelf

back of finished bookshelf

ready to be picked up!