I found out today that I won't get my Alder lumber until July 22nd. But it has shipped. So I thought I would go ahead and get some prep work done. I carefully separated the old shelf unit which will serve as the design for my new shelf. It was brittle from age and already had many glue repairs done to it over the years. I caused a few breaks in the fragile side pieces, so spent some time glueing them back up. I am relying on the side pieces to serve as a template, so they have to stay together. They are that much more fragile from the 3 rabbet groves that hold the 3 shelves. I did conclude that the old shelf is mahogany. The shelf side template will be temporarily affixed to the planed-down Alder wood stock, probably with 2-sided tape. I will be routing with a straight bit with a collar. After first drilling holes in each of the cutaway areas to accept the router bit, the collar will ride along the template cutting the Alder along the way. At least that's the plan [and I don't have a Plan B]. This shelf would have been originally manufactured in a similar way. I plan to again use the router table as I have become accustomed to using it. Here are some pics below from this evening's prep work. Click to enlarge. BTW, on another project, I plan to use my Walnut and Alder stock to guide my grandson in building a cutting board while he is here in early August. It will be mostly Walnut with Alder filler pieces. He will be using hand tools. I will make sure that you get to see that as well. Thanks for visiting my site!
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