I'm working on the design for a indoor/outdoor plant stand (see pic below) that I was hoping to get some thoughts on. For the shelves, how would you make them? I've come up with three ideas:
1) Cut the slats separately, use a dado stack or router to cut out most of the sides (leaving the ends at full width), and glue them together via the full width ends.
2) Cut the slats, cut separate spacer pieces a few inches long the thickness of the grooves, and glue all that together.
3) Cut and glue the slats, use a router to route out the grooves.
I'm leaning towards 1) at the moment. For reference, each slat will be 3/4" thick, 2" wide and 28" long.
Second question (for an unrelated project I'm currently working on): I have some cocobolo that I've resawed and book matches together. It's really thin (1/8") and I have two holes in it (used to be 1 hole, but then I resawed...). How would you fill them? They're about 3/32" in diameter and pretty clean. I was going to try epoxy, and mix in some saw dust. Recommendation on epoxy? other thoughts?
Thanks guys.