My older daughter requested a small shelf unit for over her desk awhile back after I completed her headboard/nightstands. Before moving on to "part two" of my buffet/hutch project, I've been doing some smaller things related to Professor Dr. SWMBO's foray into beekeeping and decided to add this little "quickie" shelf project. Sometimes it's nice to do a "simple"......and less exciting project for a change.
This is essentially a "one board" project...one 16' long by 8" wide by 3/4" thick pine board...with simple glued, screwed and plugged joinery with shallow rebates for alignment. The shallow rebates were cut on the sliding table saw using the miter fence and repetitive cuts and then cleaned up with a rabbit plane. No fancy milling or any other embellishment. Honestly, if I was more of a morning person and didn't have other things to do, most likely this shelving unit could have been completed start to finish in a single weekend, including finishing.But this is the real world...I don't wake up easily and "the list" is long. This piece isn't meant to hold heavy weight (and the wall it's on is only 3/4" thick), so simple figure-8s are used to hang it. While they are "silver" in color in the last photo, they will be painted to match the wall later when I paint the wall the new color and they will then "disappear" from view.
Finish is water soluble dye followed by Minwax "Gunstock" pigment stain, de-waxed shellac (two coats brushed) and a couple of sprayed coats of Minwax Polycrylic...all to "match" the headboard system and the armoire. I did have to sand the heck out of this to get rid of the planer marks before finishing it. This is the nature of using S4S lumber that went through production machinery way too fast.
Cut and clamped for fitting
Glued, screwed and plugged
Plugs sanded flush
Dyed and stained
Shellac applied
Top coats sprayed and ready for installation
Installed
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