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A guy at the lumber yard in Spokane talked me out of 3/4 plywood in about 90 seconds
I was loading up for a bookshelf build two Saturdays ago and had a cart full of 3/4 inch plywood when the yard guy walked over and asked what I was making. He said for shelves that short I was paying for thickness I did not need and pointed me to 1/2 inch plus a face frame to keep it from bowing, which saved me about $40 on the sheet. How do you all decide when to size down material versus just overbuilding it so you sleep at night?
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henderson.hugo7h ago
Did the yard guy ask what your shelf span was before he steered you to 1/2 inch? A buddy of mine built a run of built in shelves in his den and got the same speech from a guy at his local yard. He went with the thinner stuff, screwed a face frame on the front like he was told, and it looked sharp for about a year. Then he loaded the bottom two shelves with hardbacks and they sagged in the middle anyway. He ended up adding a strip of hardwood to the back edge too. Cheap fix, but he said he wished he had just run the numbers on the span first instead of trusting a quick pitch.
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