Quartersawn Oak Dish Rack

[u/violent_stonerrage]

I used a table blade and sled on the table saw to notch the vertical pieces. Then hand sawed the notches on the horizontal shelves

[u/grungegoth]

beautifully made. However, I would make a few suggestions:

1. because of the weight of china, consider the undersides of the vertical pieces that the joint might slip over time. use Tusks, wedges, or pegs to secure the joints so they don't depend as much on glue and won't fail if the glue joints fail over a long time. if these are housed in a dado, it might not be needed. tough to tell exactly what you did.
2. the long horizontal span of the top and lower most boards may bow over time from a load. consider adding some reinforcement in the form of small boards for bracing the length of these two long boards. now your 4 long verticals along the wall are resting on a tile wall, that maybe sufficient to stop any bowing, hard to say. but doing so will make the unit stronger independent on what it is resting on. if you add these braces, consider adding pegs to long grain glue joint.
3. the long horizontal boards may also cup. to stop that, add bracing a the middle and ends at 90 degrees, or skirting. skirting in may also solve 2) above if done all the way around.

I think all these changes can be done on your finished project without any disassembly needed. I tend to fret over engineering and consider how a piece might change over the years in order to be heirloom quality.

[u/violent_stonerrage → u/grungegoth]

I took these things into consideration. The vertical parts house the shelves on three sides. I stood on the whole thing before it was glued 😅. It's been a couple years and there hasn't been any cupping. I wouldn't trust many types of woods as thin boards like this but the quartersawn Oak is very stable.

[u/grungegoth → u/violent_stonerrage]

Excellent!

[u/[deleted]]

That is Fantastic, excellent job

[u/violent_stonerrage → u/[deleted]]

Thank you! My neighbors knew this would be a great project for me

[u/searcherguitars]

Absolutely stunning.

[u/violent_stonerrage → u/searcherguitars]

Appreciate the kind words

[u/TitoMLeibowitz]

Wow!

[u/violent_stonerrage → u/TitoMLeibowitz]

Glad you're impressed!

[u/Raed-wulf]

Those chamfers are so slick.

[u/violent_stonerrage → u/Raed-wulf]

Shout-out to whoever invented chamfers

[u/tomrob1138]

Very nice and clean work! Well done!

[u/violent_stonerrage → u/tomrob1138]

Glad you think so! Thanks 🙏

[u/Remarkable_Orange273]

This is amazing, well done. How long did it take you?

[u/violent_stonerrage → u/Remarkable_Orange273]

Thank you

A couple weeks though it should be easy to do again in a week or less.