Bookcase Construction--How To Build A Bookcase

As shown in the diagram below, all our work is held together by screwed joinery, not staples or nails. Shelves fit into dadoes (grooves) in the sides and the front of each shelf is rounded over.

Each side, shelf, and edge is selected for quality and appearance. We use no particleboard, only

wood.
All pieces are made from fine sanded genuine hardwood veneer plywood, trimmed with solid wood edges. Our furniture is hand-glued and clamped; we do not use non-durable hot-melt adhesives.

We construct our pieces from plywood: top-quality birch, cherry, pine, maple, oak, walnut and mahogany plywood. We also offer other plywood in special order.

While the back of a bookcase that is visible is of course finished, and is the same wood as the bookcase (or hardboard in the case of painted bookcases); the non-visible side is not finished and the bookcases are designed to stand against a wall.

^ back to top ^

Plans, Etc. Books On Plans Oak Bookcases Barrister Bookcases Mission Bookcases Bookcase Designs Entertainment Centers

Gallery Set 1 Bookcase Gallery 1 Bookcase Gallery 2 Bookcase Gallery 3 Bookcase Gallery 4 Bookcase Gallery 5

Gallery Set 2 Bookcase Gallery 6 Bookcase Gallery 7 Bookcase Gallery 8 Bookcase Gallery 9 Bookcase Gallery 10

Bookcase Design Types Antique Lawyer’s Arched Arts & Crafts Barrister’s Bed Billy Black Blueprint Boat Bookcase Cabinet Bookcase Ladder Bunk Bed Bookcase Headboard Canoe CD Children’s Corner Craftsman Custom DIY Door DVD Entertainment Centers Firehouse Fireplace Floor To Ceiling Folding Glass Door Glass Gothic Headboard Hidden Door Home Office Kid’s King Headboard Kit Ladder Lawyer’s Leaning Legal Library Limbert Low Mahogany Mission Modern Modular Narrow O'Sullivan Queen Headboard Revolving Rolling Secretary Sliding Solid Wood Stackable Steel Stickley Sullivan Tall Twin Headboard Unfinished White

Bookcase Construction--How To Build A Bookcase

wood. All pieces are made from fine sanded genuine hardwood veneer plywood, trimmed with solid wood edges. Our furniture is hand-glued and clamped; we do not use non-durable hot-melt adhesives.

We construct our pieces from plywood: top-quality birch, cherry, pine, maple, oak, walnut and mahogany plywood. We also offer other plywood in special order.

While the back of a bookcase that is visible is of course finished, and is the same wood as the bookcase (or hardboard in the case of painted bookcases); the non-visible side is not finished and the bookcases are designed to stand against a wall.

wood.
All pieces are made from fine sanded genuine hardwood veneer plywood, trimmed with solid wood edges. Our furniture is hand-glued and clamped; we do not use non-durable hot-melt adhesives.