I want to modular bookshelf made of ~12×12 cubes with dovetail corners, preferably white oak. I’m in the midst of a move, with 2 young kids – or else I’d buy a dovetail jig and take a crack at this myself.
Does anyone know a source for buying something like this over the internet? Alternatively, anybody near Tampa FL who would like to tackle such a task. I can provide drawings.
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If you ask this at Knots (frequented by woodworkers) you may get more bites.
I'm drawing a blank for manufactured wood cubes.
Have you looked at the wire mesh cube units? They are 14" all three ways, and assemble into all sorts of shapes. Since there's moving and chilluns involved, they also dissassemble into neat stacks, too.
They come in colors, and if you look a bit, some of them come with a sliding divider/shelf, which can be very handy.
After you get settled, that's the time for getting that jig set up to make some proper cubes. The layout may want for some finickiness, I'd have a couple of alternating double-wide pins or tails to leave room for a drilled hole to slip a stock dowel into to pin the cubes together.
Sounds rather relaxing just now, taking some nice blanks, working out a side & bottom layout, just working with the wood to make a pleasant and functional shape. I'd be sore tempted to use two different woods, too.
I think Ikea has something like this, but probably in birch.