Jim Koepke
01-19-2009, 7:13 PM
For a project being planned for SWMBO, this was asked in the design forum with only one respondent saying he did not understand the idea.
So here it is presented again.
My wife wants me to build some cabinets for the laundry room.
She wants to have six feet of shelves made of pine. She says she is going to paint them, but it may be awhile before she does.
My experience with pine is that six feet is a bit long to avoid shelf sag without breaking it into two boxes or having some kind of center support.
I have been wondering about using a single board divider in the center and having the two shelves at the bottom dovetailed into the single riser from either side. This would allow for the bottom to look flat instead of having some hang down if dados were used. Besides, my fear is that dados on both sides of the board might compromise the strength.
The tails would be on the vertical piece and the pins would be on the bottom shelves on either side.
My question is would it work better to have every other pin on each shelf or to have half pins share the sockets?
Has anyone heard of or done such a thing?
Any reason why it wouldn't work?
Any experience, thoughts or better ideas on this?
Thanks for any help,
jim
So here it is presented again.
My wife wants me to build some cabinets for the laundry room.
She wants to have six feet of shelves made of pine. She says she is going to paint them, but it may be awhile before she does.
My experience with pine is that six feet is a bit long to avoid shelf sag without breaking it into two boxes or having some kind of center support.
I have been wondering about using a single board divider in the center and having the two shelves at the bottom dovetailed into the single riser from either side. This would allow for the bottom to look flat instead of having some hang down if dados were used. Besides, my fear is that dados on both sides of the board might compromise the strength.
The tails would be on the vertical piece and the pins would be on the bottom shelves on either side.
My question is would it work better to have every other pin on each shelf or to have half pins share the sockets?
Has anyone heard of or done such a thing?
Any reason why it wouldn't work?
Any experience, thoughts or better ideas on this?
Thanks for any help,
jim