3 piece sectional bookcase (cherry)

Great looking bookcase! Your bookmatching is beautiful.

-- Jesus is Lord!

sweet !! very well done. you should be proud of yourself.

-- keeping myself entertained

Great looking Cherry panels. You did yourself proud on them.

Great Job.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Nice… nice… wow!!! ((my dialogue as I saw each photo)
Bravo

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

mmm-hmmm.

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

I like the design… did you build from a plan? Great job by the way!

Drew

-- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah

These are great looking book cases GSY. The cherry makes for a nice color.

How did you resaw your boards for the doors? What type of a fence did you use? I have tried once or twice on a bandsaw, but can not get the board to come out even. The table saw will sometimes do the job, but it will be scorched and wastes a lot of material with its kerf.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Drew: The design was loosely based on a bookcase I saw in a magazine. I decided to make three of them, added cabinet doors to two of them, and added lighting at the tops, and changed the moulding details. Unfortunately, my simple pencil and paper method of calculating board feet and making cut lists failed me as I designed on the fly. Or perhaps designing on the fly was the problem…..

Bill: I used my bandsaw to resaw the boards from 3/4 to about 3/8, then planed and sanded to 1/4. I put a riser block on my Delta 14” and use a Timberwolf 1/2 inch blade to resaw. My bandsaw has a Kreg fence (Delta kindly didn’t include one) to which I attached a tall secondary fence to resaw with. I don’t use one of those resaw attachment thingys…I just make sure the blade is tracking well, adjust the fence for drift, and make sure it is square to the blade. Featherboards keep the work tight to the fence. The thinnest I’ve done with this is 1/8” and got good uniform slices that clean up nicely in the drum sander.

-- GSY from N. Idaho

Got to work on my resawing.
You did a great job.
Love book matched and it probably ended up better than raised panel.

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

Beautiful bookmatching! Great project!

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