Hi all...
OK, this is my first experiment in routing, and since the previous owners of the house left a huge hole in the wall that had an old dingy green painted door mounted in it to serve as a sort of dry-bar...it was time to fix things up a bit.
A built-in bookcase seemed like a good idea compared to just drywalling over the hole..and it would provide a good way to break in my first new router(nothing fancy, a Craftsman 17542...but it worked very well on the project).
The wood was just your standard s4s pine from the local home improvement center, and for the back I used a half-sheet of lauan.
I measured various books around the house to get the height dimensions for the different sized shelves. The top shelf with the rail is for rolled up posters/charts or what have you.
The lower shelf with the rail is dimensioned for the average magazine and underneath that is the space for oversized books.
I routed rabbets for the case frame...and used dadoes and stopped dadoes for the shelves and stiles respectively. I also used dadoes for the adjustable lower shelf...a bit unconventional, but it works well.
I was shocked at how much cleaner the dadoes that I did with the router were than what I was able to get out of the table saw!! Almost no sanding was required!
This was the first time I used a bearing bit as well,,,and it was great for making the quarter-round with a 1/16th inch relief on the front of the shelves.
Noah(the beagle) was used to guard the house from neighborhood squirrels.
I did want to say a quick thanks to Mike and bobj3 and DrZook for the tips given in a previous thread. It's amazing to me how versatile a router is, and while I'm not quite ready to throw out the table saw, I do wonder why I waited so long before getting one.