I made this for my son, he found the picture on the internet. I used AI to find the picture should I need additional views or description and was surprised to find it on the
Kreg Tools website. There, this project could be downloaded in a 19 page set of instructions. As you might guess, the entire wine rack was assembled with pocket screws.
I didn't want to use pocket holes & screws, I thought this would be a great project for all traditional joinery and old hand tools. Looking at the photos, the first photo shows my target, and the second shows the results.
Regarding old hand tools, and I used as many as possible, I started by sawing out components, then finished all surfaces with my Veritas scraper plane - my Stanley number 80 hand scraper, and a scraper card. This worked great for me as I am not very fond of sanding. Of course I incorporated a Stanley smoothing plane prior the scrapers.
For the shelves bottoms, a wooden moving filletster reduced three edges to a quarter inch from half inch. This allowed the shelves to fit into the 1/4" grooves made with in the three sides with a plow plane. Above photos show the effects of this effort.
Also shown above are the through dovetails used at each outside corner, which hide the shelf grooves cut across each side & front. Because I used dowels for the full lap inside corners, this left the grooves exposed on the front pieces. In order to hide these grooves on the ends, I made end caps glued & pin nailed, after adding the champfers via a Block Plane.
I finished this cherry wine rack with clear Minwax Polycrylic semi-gloss by wiping on with lint free cloth.
This was an enjoyable project, one that permitted using quite a few hand tools, in a leisurely manner.
If anyone wants to view the
Kreg plans, they can be viewed here:
KregThanks for viewing.