advice on wine rack construction

[Joe90]

Hi

I'd like to ask how something could be made. It's the old one of making 'cube ' type shelving... i.e small cubes for wine bottles or larger cubes as a bookcase...

I'm actually thinking of making something similar to the 'Guilford Buffet Hatch' on this link. (About halfway down)

http://www.reidfurniture.com/store/roi/acatalog/Guilford.html

In the bottom left of the unit there is a wine rack... how is this done? With housing or 'dado' joints?...
Or else with interlocking shelves and verticals?... :roll: hmmm, hard to describe what I mean.
Or maybe I could just use dowels given that I have an accurate way of drilling for dowels?... (Mafell DD40 doweller)

I also may have to make a much larger version of the cubes for a bookshelf.. i.e 6 foot tall, 3 foot wide... with 6 cubes tall and 3 cubes wide, no back on the unit.

Cheers
Joe

 

[Shultzy]

Joe, yes any one of those option would be ok. Housing, dowels, biscuits, even halving joints, it depends on your preference. There are no heavy loads involved. For the bookcase I think it would be better to use stopped housings as they are stronger. Putting a back on would also make it stronger.

 

[DomValente]

Agree with Schultzy, my preference would be housings or even half cuts(can't remember the technical name) but similar to a cardboard wine box.

Dom

 

[Shultzy]

Dom, aren't the cardboard wine boxes, halving joints?

 

[DomValente]

Ta much

 

[woodbloke]

Don't keep the vino long enough to store it in a posh rack :roll: - Rob

 

[woodbutcher]

in the joiners shop we dovetailed the joints in finishing 12mm from the face to form a stopped dovetail, it is much stronger than rebates and dowels.




woodbutcher.