Plum Wood Shelf

This shelf was made for a Whiskey-shop to display little bottles.
The wood for this shelf is damson plum. Here you can find more information about this tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damson

The construction is very simple.
The horizontal boards are only screwed on a big back board.

The tools I used:

• thickness planer
• table saw
• cordless drill
• sand paper

Misc

• linseed oil
• screws

The back board was to big for my thickness planer, therefore I split it with wedges in two parts and planed every part separately. Later I glued the two parts together and no cut was visible!

I planted the two parts of the back board and the shelf boards.

After planing I glued the two parts of the back board together.

The shelf boards are thicker pieces of plum wood with bark.

Because the back board has no straight edge it is impossible to make a perpendicular mark,
therefor I clamped the back board on my clamping box and parallel a long water balance.

Now I made perpendicular lines to this aluminium bar.

Now it is easy to drill two holes for every shelf.

I put some layers of linseed oil on the wood.

First I clamped a piece of scrap wood on the back board straight to my line and on this I clamped a shelf board.
I flipped it and screwed the shelf board on.

As a suspension I screwed a L-shaped plate onto the back board.

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