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Feb. 12, 2005
This weekend I installed the standards and made the movable shelves. I cut down four foot standards to fit in each corner of the upper and lower sections. I used a scrap piece of 1/8" luan plywood to make to template for drilling the holes for drywall anchors.
 
I cut four more shelves from the remaining oak veneer plywood. I also cut some 3/4" x 13/16" x 36" strips of solid oak. Chris and I glued the oak strips to the shelves using biscuts and let them dry over night. The following day, we ran the shelves through the jointer removing about 1/16" from the solid oak stips to square them up. Then we ran them over an 1/8" round over bit in the router table to add a profile on the top front edge of the shelves. If you look close you can see the detail in the picture below.
After all the mill work was done on the shelves, I finish sanded them with 150 grip sand paper and cleaned them with distilled water. Next I sanded them again with 180 grit paper and Chris cleaned them with compressed air. Chris wanted to try a new technique to apply the stain. Instead of using a brush she applied the stain with a cloth. Applying the stain in that manner, gave her better control of the color. After the stain was dry, Chris applied a coat of polyurethane to the tops and sides of the shelves.
After the polyurethane had dried, we brought the shelves inside. We put them in the linen closet, so they would not get damaged. You can get a pretty good idea how the linen closet is going to turn out from the photo below. We still need to put a couple more coats of polyurethane on the shelves. It takes four hours for the polyurethane to dry, and you have to lightly sand between coats. Two to three coats of polyurethane will give you a very nice finish.
Once we are done finishing the shelves, we will start on making the doors. The doors are going to be expensive. It's going to take quite a bit of solid oak and some expensive router bits.
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