For my eldest daughter's birthday I built a cherry bookcase. She has always
loved reading so I think this case will be appreciated. Her birthday was
early Feb. I started the build after Christmas and the holidays were in the
rear view mirror and finished it in early April. Not bad for Galoot time
since there are always 1000 other things to do and reasons to eat shop
time. The build itself took a good solid week (about 40 hours) over this
time.  The sanding, scraping, filling, staining, filling some more, sanding
some more, staining some more, etc. was estimated at taking zero time but
in reality took about as long as the build if you count curing time.  From
now on I will anticipate finishing time instead of thinking that it is
pretty much a day or a weekend at most.

The dimensions as best I can remember are 5 foot for the carcase with a 5
inch platform and 4 inches or so of molding, making the case a bit shy of 6
feet.  The shelves are poorly done tapered sliding dovetails (with small
shims to make them less poorly done). But the ends are covered so only I
"saw"  how loose they actually were before the shims... Span is 30 inches
if I recall, glued the entire length as all grain is in alignment. Hide
glue all around and Tremont rose head nails for securing the 3/8"
shiplapped SYP backing. The SYP started out as a single rough sawn 1x12
from a local sawyer. That was hand ripped with a Disston #12 but Delta
planed into single planks. Yet Stanley 78 was used to make ship lap. All
molding was copied from an antique I saw online by recreating with hand
plane and scraper. Backing is 2 coats of black milk paint with 2 coats of
BLO. The cherry has two coats of BLO and 2 coats of brushed clear shellac
from flake. Other than sanding and aforementioned Delta planer on the
backing, the build was hand saw (Disston #12, Bad Axe Backsaw), handplanes
(#4, #5, #8, #78), router plane #71, generic wooden hollow with scrapers
for the molding,....I think that was it

Pics here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/tYQyZxmv79lvGvwk2

Scott, still in Duluth GA beginning to sweat