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

(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...