Amateur DIY woodworking in India

....that started as something else I had identified a vacant space in our dining room that could have accommodated a crockery / china cabinet, and had planned to build one. The cabinet was to be built from 19 mm plywood, with dado shelves and sliding glass shutters. Ripped the sides, top and shelves according to plan on my table saw Used my bigger B&D router mounted in the table saw gap which is fitted with freud undersized plywood bit to put in the 19mm dados on the two sides and started mounting the top / bottom with pocket hole screws + glue. However, at this point of time, my mother objected to adding another china cabinet in the dining room, and suggested that as the store bought shoe rack (made from particle board) has warped beyond usability, maybe I can transform this build into a big shoe rack with room for future storage. Thus I abandoned the crockery cabinet plan, and modified my build to plan a shoe rack with adjustable s...

Kill it, kill it with fire! There were at least 7-8 pairs of shoes on the staircase which leads to the terrace at our home, and my mom had complained for eternity that something needed to be done about that. One fine morning, I decided that instead of buying a nice shoe rack (which, in hindsight, probably would have been cheaper AND better looking), I am gonna build one ! So in spite of vociferous appeals by my parents not to do so, I went out and bought a 5x4 piece of 1/2 inch (12 mm) plywood and prepared a rough plan to build an open shoe rack with 4 racks. Without much knowledge of woodworking, and armed with a saw, some screws and a drill/driver, I went to work. The measurements were off, the racks different in size, the screws driven in incorrectly without pilot holes, and it wasn't probably a good idea to screw the 3 sides (2 sides + 1 back) to the shelves , instead of building a carcass and then putting in the shelves (which I learnt the hard way later). ...