torsion box

My original design for the individual shelves would have been significantly easier to build than the ones I ended up building. I had planned to bui...

In my final design, each individual shelf and vertical side is a narrow torsion box (1 3/4" thick) with a skeleton made of 3/4" thick plywood spine...

(I actually cut and beveled the edges of the thin plywood skins first, then sized the skeleton parts to match, but I'll describe the work in revers...

I had the assembled shelf/side torsion box skeletons and beveled skins. All that was left was gluing the skins to the skeletons, hopefully without ...