Slide Together/Apart Bookcase

[CharlesWilson]

I updated the original posting to indicate the dovetail slot that was visible from the back of the original bookcase. The SketchUp design eliminates this cosmetic "feature".

 

[Dan Lyke]

Just for completeness, and because I was inspired by this to use the Domino for shelf pins for my own project, here's my page on cutting shelf pins with the Domino, with the critical bits repeated here.

I should have taken a picture of the other side of these two guides, but they're the same thickness, the spacing I wanted my shelf pins at, and they've got a strip screwed on the far side to give me a  90 reference angle.

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So it was just a matter of starting at one end and leap-frogging those guides up my cabinet:

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Resulting in (in a temporary installation, just so we've got some storage in the kitchen while I finish things like doors and drawers):

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