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Kitchen shelves, I made one then another of these. It’s always easier when it’s fresh in your mind to make two.
The cherry one was a wedding present for a favourite niece. I used fresh clean figured stock with minimal finishing, so it should colour up & darken real well. Grain patterns pop over time too. On this and the other I ran traditional grooves at the back of each shelf to hold photo’s, plates or other thin standing objects.
Since she and her husband own not even a hammer, I positioned the cleat holes exactly 16” on centre, provided screws, a pilot drill, a miniature level, a magnet to find the studs and a brief installation guide. I jokingly told him to do a pull-up on it before they placed their first valuable thing. He did. Kids.
And yes, there is wood storage everywhere.
The second shelf, mine, came from a really nasty mahogany board culled from a huge shipment we received for a project at work. Pure firewood it was with cross grain checks and fossilization everywhere. Punky in places. Almost unworkable but what grain, what colour! 
I left the cup and cracks in.. The best part is the edges you see are not live edges. but internal splits broken apart under light hand pressure.
Finish is high gloss tung oil which gives a great elastic durable surface. No wax. All joinery is, well I’ll let you guess.
36” x 30” x 5”
23” x 23” x 5”
About 14 hrs.(2)
Build on LJ’s.
gene
-- gene@toronto.ontario.canada : dovetail free since '53, critiques always welcome.
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Philip
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#1 posted 377 days ago
That is genius. I like that you made an instruction booklet on how to hang it for them- took the idea right out of my head.
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#2 posted 377 days ago
gene being new ,wouldn,t even know what to guess on the joinery maybe half lap but i do know that is one beautiful shelf and the wood grain with that finish just jumps off at you.one day i will get mine to look as good :)
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rance
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#3 posted 377 days ago
These are no less like-able than your other projects. Very nice job, and kudos for using that nasty lumber.
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#4 posted 377 days ago
Very nice shelf to display your artistic wood projects
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SPalm
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#5 posted 377 days ago
What a wonderful idea. And my my, what a thing for design you have.
Never heard of high gloss Tung. It looks great.
And thanks for sharing your case with your belongings. It made me smile.
Steve
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#6 posted 377 days ago
Elegantly simple; simply elegant
-- Clint Searl.............We deserve what we tolerate
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#7 posted 377 days ago
Glad you stuck with the mahogany. That has to be pretty rewarding.
Definitely favoriting so I remember to try something like this.
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#8 posted 377 days ago
Beautiful wood. You just have to keep the defects and make them part of the project. To cut them out you have nothing left.
-- 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 †
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#9 posted 377 days ago
Very beautiful wood to say the least and I really like how you made use of that nasty Mahogany : )
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#10 posted 377 days ago
The annoying thing is you make it look so easy. Another great design, and another great build.
“Not to dare is to lose oneself” SK
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gul
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#11 posted 377 days ago
Great idea and easy one too.
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#12 posted 377 days ago
Very strking, came cout great
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#13 posted 377 days ago
Beautiful in their simplicity Gene.
You are using one of my favorite joints here. With the need to conserve space on boats, anything you can make “knock down” but still sturdy gets high marks and this kind of half lap excels at the task.
It also works perfectly for you here to provide clean lines and leave the beautiful wood as the sole focus.
Simple… superb.
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#14 posted 377 days ago
Gene, thanks for reminding me that should post a similar project. Yours is very nice, I love the finish. When I grow up I wanna be like you … lol
A hug.
Martin
Gene, gracias por recordarme que debía postear un proyecto parecido. El tuyo está muy bonito, me encanta la terminación. Cuando sea grande quiero ser como vos… lol
Un abrazo.
Martín
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vipond33
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#15 posted 377 days ago
You are too kind, or blind!
gene
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