Two recent sets of Hungarian Shelves ran thick and thin, i.e. in one case I made the slot height taller than my recommendation
Slot Height for Hungarian Shelves and in the second case (the set above) shorter. At first I thought the tighter the fit of the shelf in its slot, the better, but I have changed that thinking for several reasons. First, wedges that taper to a knife edge are more likely to break upon insertion or removal. Second, they offer too little wood for compression when driven into the slot. Third, the thinner wedges lack rigidity and tend to fall away from the bottom of the shelf. My revision is to make the slot height always a little more than 1/16" rather than less. I found that even a 1/8" space works but that tends to be a little too much.
The uprights are African mahogany stained to match the accelerated darkened cherry, accomplished by some careful time in the sun. As always the natural face of cherry is so lovely. She requires no makeup.
Commercial furniture makers still think that cherry is black.
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