Art Mulder
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Here is a small bookcase that I completed in January.
It started when I came across some lovely 5/4 clear red oak lumber for a great price. I'd been wanting to design a bookcase for the Living Room, and this lumber was it. The thick 5/4 pieces allowed me some design room. So I made the sides and top a full 1" thick, the shelves a more conventional 3/4" thick, and resawed some of the boards in half and planed them down to a slender 3/8" thick for a shiplapped back.
I like Mission and used some of it's stylings in this piece, with the corbels under the top. As well I find that the vertical lines in the sides to me seem to fit with with the theme.
The design in Sketchup...
Closeup of the arched bottom...
I've never made a shiplap back before...
Gluing the corbels into place...
And the finished piece...
Thanks for looking,
...art
More photos and a few more details on my webpage.
It started when I came across some lovely 5/4 clear red oak lumber for a great price. I'd been wanting to design a bookcase for the Living Room, and this lumber was it. The thick 5/4 pieces allowed me some design room. So I made the sides and top a full 1" thick, the shelves a more conventional 3/4" thick, and resawed some of the boards in half and planed them down to a slender 3/8" thick for a shiplapped back.
I like Mission and used some of it's stylings in this piece, with the corbels under the top. As well I find that the vertical lines in the sides to me seem to fit with with the theme.
The design in Sketchup...
Closeup of the arched bottom...
I've never made a shiplap back before...
Gluing the corbels into place...
And the finished piece...
Thanks for looking,
...art
More photos and a few more details on my webpage.