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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...
Unlike most projects, finishing was by far the easiest part of this one. I sanded everything to 280 grit and, in preparation, used every portable ...
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...
(I actually cut and beveled the edges of the thin plywood skins first, then sized the skeleton parts to match, but I'll describe the work in revers...

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