02-07-2020, 07:18 PM
I am building a hall bench for our house. It never fails somewhere in my projects I always screw something up that is very visible. I posted a quick drawing below. The dividers are set unstopped dados in the shelves. I got done routing the dados and noticed a problem in the first full shelf. I miss measured one opening which throws off 2 dividers. Shelves 1 and 2 are nicer boards than 3 and 4. I figured since there are going to be doors on those cubbies they wouldn't show as much. The wood is red oak and will have some kind of stain to help darken the dark grain and warm up the light grain. So I had 3 thoughts on how to fix. Which would you vote for or do you have another suggestion?
1) Remake shelves 1 and 2 from the beginning.
2) Make an insert to put in the dados and re-rout them. Grain match will be difficult and stain will probably pick up joint.
3) Make inserts and re-rout but move all the shelves up one and bring shelf 4 down to shelf 1.
4) There is also just leave as is. Not really a fix
1) Remake shelves 1 and 2 from the beginning.
2) Make an insert to put in the dados and re-rout them. Grain match will be difficult and stain will probably pick up joint.
3) Make inserts and re-rout but move all the shelves up one and bring shelf 4 down to shelf 1.
4) There is also just leave as is. Not really a fix