On 7/1/2013 3:04 PM, Greg Guarino wrote:
On 7/1/2013 3:00 PM, SonomaProducts.com wrote:

I am not sure why you have the two pieces so close along the bottom.

The other bookshelves sit on a set of cubbyhole units, and have 1x3
maple as the bottom of the face frame. I intend to carry this same
"design" over for the "bridge", but the bottom of the bridge will be
above eye height and will thus be seen. So the bottom piece of ply is to
make the bottom of the unit flush with the face frame. The pieces above
that will hold books and bric-a-brac flush with the top of the face
frame 1x3.

Leon has suggested that this is not necessary, that the face frame can
hang down below the actual bottom shelf. So far I don't think I like the
(imagined) look of that. But at this point I may redesign the whole
thing a few times before I build it anyway.

That's one benefit of having no spare time; you get to devote a lot of
thinking to the project before there's an opportunity to build it.

Now if you would learn to use Sketchup you would not have to imagine how
anything would look. You could see exactly, at any angle, how it would look.