Monday, May 26, 2014

Cookbook Shelf Units #3: Drilling the Dowel Holes

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Dry Fit

They’re done. All 256 of them.


I rethought and then reconfigured the jig a bit so I could keep the same reference surface when drilling both ends of the “rungs”. It went very quickly:



That was the very first one and it took a little under a minute. 32 of them took a little under a half hour.


Next I had to drill the mating holes in the stiles. I rebuilt the jig from the same parts, marked up the pieces, and started drilling:



With some trepidation, I dry fit two of the “ladder” sides. The dowel joints mated well and the alignment was good.


The next step involves the curved top and bottom rails for the “ladders”.




Source: LumberJocks.com



Cookbook Shelf Units #3: Drilling the Dowel Holes

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