Making Shelves With Router

Collet buy a carbide straight cutting bit with a 1 to 1 1 4 in.

Making shelves with router. You need 18mm thick sheets of wood for the shelving itself whatever width and length you want. This jig uses a top mounted bearing router bit. Begin by fixing the top to the two side panels. Now put the unit together.

The router is the one tool that will handle all the dadoing and grooving you ll do in woodworking. Although it takes longer than a jointer routers can make clean straight edged joints for cabinet doors and panels as well as for other woodworking projects. If you have a router with a 1 4 in. Use finish nails and wood glue to achieve a strong finishing.

Give it stability by clamping together the shelves on edge. The router will give your unit a classy look even if it was built at home. Dado jigs are handy items for making shelving units and for cutting the slots that shelves fit into making them sturdy and professional looking. Cutting length sold at home centers and woodworking stores.

Cut spacer blocks from 2x4 scrap and place them between the shelves at both ends. Perching a router on a shelf edge to flush trim solid wood edges can turn ugly if your machine tips. Four legs and four shelves. It follows that hoary adage of woodworking use the simplest joint that will work the dado joint has a centuries long history of use in cabinetmaking furniture making just in woodworking in general.

A dado is a slot or trench that is used to invisibly support shelves in a bookcase or cabinet. Using a router you can build a free standing set of shelves using only eight bits of wood. Next put the shelves in by applying glue to the rabbet joints created above and slide the shelves into the joints. Then clamp the spacers and shelves together.

The dado is prime choice joinery.