Finally had some time this morning to get Hub #003, the three shelf bookcase for the Marshall Chamber banquet auction a little closer to completion. Last weekend I spent most of both days in the workshop, but it was mostly to get more pegboard up on the walls (one piece is shown in the background) and painted to match the pegboard over the work bench, which was put in when the house was built. I just didn't anticipate needing quite so much hanging storage, but things changed when I developed this fetish for 24" furniture clamps.
When I dry-fitted it two weeks ago the middle shelf was sitting too far back (the shelves should be half an inch back from the sides) and the bottom shelf was about a quarter inch too low. When I took it apart I found the first problem was a slot cut half an inch further back than it should have been, so I cut that in the right place and cut new slots a quarter inch higher for the bottom shelf. 
I then taped blocks to the shelves and backs to hold the pieces in place while I added the other side. (I'd like to say they held everything neatly in place but the truth is that I had to start screaming for Jamie to come help because two hands was not enough to hold six pieces of wood upright while applying a seventh).
But we finally got the thing assembled, and clamped within an inch of its life, which let me turn to a new way of making the card holders for the sides. For the two book racks I couldn't figure out a way to cut them from Hub shelving, so I bought some new 3/4" screen molding and used that, manually routing out the grrove for the card with a chisel. But I didn't like the way the new wood took the stain, or the rounded edges on it, so the other night I figured out how I could use the table saw to cut these quarter-inch thick strips of wood with the 3/16" inch grooves without losing a finger, so I did that today. I then used wood conditioner on the finished pieces before staining them. The photo shows the screen molding I had been using next so the pieces cut today from a piece of Hub shelving, and fitted into the new label holder / bin pull template. You can see how much darker and squarer the pieces are - much closer to the label holders on the original 1897 Hub bins. Yes, that's the difference between a new piece of pine and a piece from old-growth lumber that's been aged 80-plus years up in the 111 side mezzanine, baking up there in the dry heat since Calvin Coolidge was president (where it was before 1928 I have no idea, but it's likely it was new at that time given where it was - this is not wood that I think came from the 1897 store, unlike the shelving). 
Speaking of which, I used the template for the first time today (shown in place)and it made accurately placing the holder and bin pull screws a piece of cake.
The piece now has its second coat of varnish drying, but I'll add a third (and maybe a fourth) tomorrow before adding the bin pulls. This one needs to be a little shinier, I think.
