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I have a plan for a 4 foot tall 3 foot wide or so bookshelf. I have
alot of rough cut oak. ALot of it is 2.5 inches wide but I also have
boards from 6 inches to 9 inches wide.
The plan calls for plywood. WOuld it be acceptable and look right to
use my solid wood instead, making boards out of glued up strips as I
talked about earlier or will this not look right?
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As you said worried about wood movement and the thing breaking apart.
Also, being able to tell the stuffis glued togtther and it not looking
good or right.
As I said I dont have a jointer. (But thinking of buying one) Unless
the router tabel can work.
Toller wrote:
> As long as there aren't any wood movement traps involve (and there shouldn't
> be on a bookcase) real wood is always nicer than ply.
> Why do you ask, what issues do you see?
>
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> > I have a plan for a 4 foot tall 3 foot wide or so bookshelf. I have
> > alot of rough cut oak. ALot of it is 2.5 inches wide but I also have
> > boards from 6 inches to 9 inches wide.
> >
> > The plan calls for plywood. WOuld it be acceptable and look right to
> > use my solid wood instead, making boards out of glued up strips as I
> > talked about earlier or will this not look right?
> >
As long as there aren't any wood movement traps involve (and there shouldn't
be on a bookcase) real wood is always nicer than ply.
Why do you ask, what issues do you see?
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> I have a plan for a 4 foot tall 3 foot wide or so bookshelf. I have
> alot of rough cut oak. ALot of it is 2.5 inches wide but I also have
> boards from 6 inches to 9 inches wide.
>
> The plan calls for plywood. WOuld it be acceptable and look right to
> use my solid wood instead, making boards out of glued up strips as I
> talked about earlier or will this not look right?
>
"stryped" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> As you said worried about wood movement and the thing breaking apart.
>
Typically bookcases all have the grain running parallel, so wood movement is
not an issue.
But if you are going to do any woodworking at all, wood movement is
something you have to master, so you might was well do it now.
BTW if your house is humidified in the winter and airconditioned in the
summer, there isn't that much of an issue. I deliberately built some
drawers the wrong way 2 years ago because the grain looked so much better; I
figured that if they bound I could sand them down, but they didn't change at
all.
> Also, being able to tell the stuffis glued togtther and it not looking
> good or right.
>
Getting the wood to match so it looks good is always an issue; but the worst
job will probably look better than ply.
> As I said I dont have a jointer. (But thinking of buying one) Unless
> the router tabel can work.
> Toller wrote:
>> As long as there aren't any wood movement traps involve (and there
>> shouldn't
>> be on a bookcase) real wood is always nicer than ply.
>> Why do you ask, what issues do you see?
>>
>> "stryped" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> > I have a plan for a 4 foot tall 3 foot wide or so bookshelf. I have
>> > alot of rough cut oak. ALot of it is 2.5 inches wide but I also have
>> > boards from 6 inches to 9 inches wide.
>> >
>> > The plan calls for plywood. WOuld it be acceptable and look right to
>> > use my solid wood instead, making boards out of glued up strips as I
>> > talked about earlier or will this not look right?
>> >
>