Shelf-Building

     I'm off this week, and I have spent several hours over the last three days working on an addition to my book shelves -- one day of cutting the wood, one day of routing slots in the vertical sides for the shelves themselves, and today I assembled it.  Tomorrow, I plan to clean up pencil marks with mineral spirits and sand it.

     Each day's task uses a different set of tools (with some overlap) and each one ends with the project in a form that can be set aside easily and picked up without having to backtrack.

     If these shelves work out, they'll finish closing the sides of the window seat with a three-shelf alcove on each end.  I have more plans for the library/dining room, but I'm taking it one step at a time.