Here's a nice little project I've made. I got the pattern from "The Berry Basket". 1/4" Elm for the first one, 5/16" elm for the next three. One of the issues with some of the older patterns is that the newer containers are larger than the old one, The newer glass jars of spices are 1/4" too tall to fit in the shelves :( so I enlarged the pattern so that the 5/16" wood I had would fit the mortice and tenon joinery I was using without having to custom fit every piece. Worked like a charm and fit all but the tallest spice jars; and for those I reconfigured the shelves from 3 shelves to 2. On the original rack the glue kept failing so I retrofitted pins in the tenons, end of problem.

Here's a couple of pictures of the pinned tenons:

Well done, Wich. Do you resaw your own stock to get it that thin?

No. When I had the tree taken down and slabbed, I specified the slabs be 1/2", once planed, the finished size(s) are between 1/4 and 1/2 inch.

Edited April 13Apr 13 by Wichman3
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Love the way you used the sap wood along the front of the shelves!

Man that looks really cool, great work, and the pinned tenons are the final touch that sets it all off.

On the scrolled edges, the edges the scroll blade touches, do you sand smooth Wich? Or do you leave as worked?

Nice work on the spice rack and I love your corner blocks, no doubt it's square.

48 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Man that looks really cool, great work, and the pinned tenons are the final touch that sets it all off.

On the scrolled edges, the edges the scroll blade touches, do you sand smooth Wich? Or do you leave as worked?

I only have to sand the fuzzies off the back. I use smaller blades than most strollers, #1 for all but the long straight cuts. 😀

Awesome craftsmanship and very nice looking Wich. I too like your use of the 1-2-3 or 2-3-4 machinist blocks great idea for smaller projects.