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Arts & Crafts Bookcase A simple, knockdown, turn-of-the-century classic provides lots of storage for your favorite books. My mom has a bookcase in every room of my parents' house. Most of them are stuffed two-rows deep with paperbacks, hardbacks, picture books and travel books. And still, whenever I visit, I find even more novels piled on top of end tables, underneath coffee tables, near the sides of chairs and on the backs of toilets. But I'm like her - I love collecting books. Tired of moving my own piles of books every time I needed a place to set a drink down, I decided to build a bookcase of my own. This project serves as a nice challenge for the beginning woodworker and as a great weekend project for those more skilled. Its Arts & Crafts style is emphasized by mortise-and-tenon joinery, wedges and Stickley-style (sans ammonia) finish. While the ends remain forever assembled, a few good whacks to the wedges and the whole project comes apart, stacks together and can be transported easily in the trunk of a car. Getting Started In keeping with the Arts & Crafts tradition, I bought rough quar-tersawn white oak for this project, which I jointed and planed. Don't have a jointer or planer? No problem. Head out to your local home center and purchase dimensional lumber. The shelves can be cut from 1 x 8s, as can the rails and stiles, with some waste. When purchasing your lumber, be picky. Choose knot-free heartwood (you don't want pieces with a lot of sap) that has lots of figure. Determine which pieces by Kara Gebhart are the most attractive and mark those for the most visible parts of the project. Cut all your pieces to size according to the cut list. Test Mortise The first step to building this bookcase is tackling the joinery and assembling the sides. It's important that the project's tenons fit snugly into the mortises, which means first making a test mortise. This will allow you to check the size of your tenons throughout the tenon-cutting process, ensuring accuracy. There are 24 mortises in this project. Do yourself a favor and, if you don't already have one, buy a hollow chisel mortising machine (about $250). A mortising attachment for your drill press or a 38" Forstner bit also are acceptable options. Comments or questions? Contact Kara at 513-531-2690 ext. 1348 or kara.gebhart@fwpubs.com. www.popwood.com 55 |
