The Woodshop Shed

Twisted Bookshelf

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


My wife found a pic of this bookshelf one day and I thought it would be great for my friend's daughter's first home homewarming present.Made it out of pallets and that took quite a bit of “pre-paring”
break down pallets and pull nails – whee!
mate up the boards to make longer boards, mill them to all the same thickness, and the married boards to the same width. I used my box joint jig to fingerjoint the ends of short board to make longer ones, almost 7 feet long overall.

and then glue the boards to make the panels for the sides and front. – 3 panels, two sides and one for the curved fronts.
Trim all the panels to the same length. Lots of making bigger boards from pallet boards up to now!cut the dados and rabbets (groves) dry fit the shelves and layout the twist cut on the front panel.
Dry fit everything, sand inside surfaces down, adjust everything for a nice fit – then glue it up.
Lots of sanding then, first round of staining.
a few days of staining, wait to dry, another few days of clear coating, wait to dry and buff sanding then, done.Go camping!

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