Window Seat Bookcase #2: Creating the Sides and Dividers

The first step in making my daughter’s window seat bookcase is to create the sides and the interior dividers (shown in blue above). This is panel construction with a more difficult step which I’ll get to in the my next blog post.

The legs are 1.5” square cherry and it looks like there is a little quilting going on in the legs, not sure. To create the curve on the lower rail, I literally printed the component straight from SketchUp and taped it onto some 1/4” MDF, then did some template routing…

Then cut away the upper apron…

Creating slots for the panels…

I’m using dowels for joinery with a few stub tenons here and there…

So far so good. I need to make the panels next which involves resawing and dressing the cherry boards down to 3/8” thick. I’m not good at resawing. :)

Thanks for looking,

Jeff

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