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Initially, I thought I could assemble the entire shelf in the garage, and that my wife and I could move it into the study. As my wife is happy to t...
The staves required a dowel hole on the bottom to align with the corresponding holes in the base.   These will not be glued joints.  Instead, I'll ...
The overall shelf's structure comprises several elements: • A back panel that is a one-sided torsion box. • Individual shelves that are torsion box...
I had the assembled shelf/side torsion box skeletons and beveled skins. All that was left was gluing the skins to the skeletons, hopefully without ...
My original design for the individual shelves would have been significantly easier to build than the ones I ended up building. I had planned to bui...
In my final design, each individual shelf and vertical side is a narrow torsion box (1 3/4" thick) with a skeleton made of 3/4" thick plywood spine...

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