Jared MacDonald Woodworking

I made a fairly traditional cherry bookshelf for my inlaws:

I’m happy with how it came out:

Solid cherry top, plywood case, face frame on the front, frame and panel sides, adjustable shelves:

Here it is at its home – the bookcase’s dimensions were determined by the location the window and the light switch!

Now, some build pictures.

Here’s planning it out for review on Sketchup:

Look at those clean dados and shelf pin holes!

Here the basic case comes together:

Adding the face and side frames:

Adding the solid cherry top:

And with shelves in place, plywood with solid fronts that line up with (but are slightly shallower than) the face frame:

The long finishing process of multiple coats of satin Arm-R-Seal: