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Shaker Hanging Shelves

comments (2) July 27th, 2011 in Reader's Gallery

benchslave benchslave, member
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These are shaker hanging wall shelves made from ash. I used sliding dovetails for the two top shelves and hand cut through dovetails for the bottom shelf.

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benchslave benchslave writes: I got the plan from How To Build Shaker Furniture by Thos. Moser. He used dadoes and rabbets to join the shelves to the sides but I wanted to try my hand at handcut dovetails and router cut sliding dovetails.
Posted: 3:25 pm on October 29th

4myWood 4myWood writes: Very Nice. I just built two of these last week, but I did not dovetail the bottom the way you did. I like yours better, plus I made mine out of pine. I wonder if we got the plan from the same book?
Posted: 7:54 pm on October 9th

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