Two quick bookcases

ouch…I think i would have put it together…then been reeeeeaaallly careful with the stain…turned out great…WELCOME to LJ’s (a bit late welcome)...

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

Individually they slid through their respective holes with no problem…. multiply that by six shelves and four legs= pain in butt amount of friction. It was very painful and very frustrating, but I know better now!

-- Let's make some firewood!

nice design, and the construction looks great too. a couple questions:

1. was it minwax stain + poly or stain only, then a topcoat?

2. how did make the mortises for the vertical supports?

Well, the result certainly looks worth the hassle! Great job!

-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!

even though it was a crazy task, the end result is very interesting. I like the creative idea.

-- making sawdust....

Thank you for the compliments! Aaronk: I used pre-stain conditioner (got to love the way pine stains!!!), then I used polyshades (Bombay Mahogany and Honey Pine). I was going to put some more Mahogany on to darken the color, but I really liked the reddish hue it had so I left it. The mortises took me a little bit effort to get my system down. I started doing them on a router table (setting up stop blocks for each end) but eventually got smart and put them in my router boss, once I had the dimensions down it went fairly quick.

-- Let's make some firewood!

cool, thanks.

I do like the two tone and double verticals. Nice.
-d