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OK well it sounds like a minefield so I'm not going to bother. Thanks all

I'm a noob - talk me through it. As long as the wood is straight, surely I can just glue it up? Then plane the top so it's nice and smooth and flat? What am I missing?

Ha ha now I'm completely tortured over wood choice! A few people have said to use PAR/PSE, but this is at least twice as expensive as "rough" sawn wood, whereas the sawn square-edged timber from both B&Q & Wickes get consistently good reviews for straightness, and can be had for around £2.60...

A helpful and inspirational set of replies as always, chaps. Thank you. Ha I was just mentally wrestling with what to do with the rounding. I only have a No. 4 plane so I thought I would use my table saw to strip 5mm off each top edge then smooth the whole thing with the plane once glued up...

Afternoon, I'm a beginner to woodworking and I want to make a nice workbench. To keep costs down, I want to make the frame out of 4x2 softwood, then top it with a solid oak kitchen worktop. The frame will be joined with pegged mortise & tenon joints. Basically, two trestles joined with...

Thanks - yeah it's "Jacobean Oak". I'll be using that again. It brought out the grain nicely.

Thanks. I would sand off all traces of excess glue before applying the wood stain. The result of NOT doing that can be seen in the second picture. I like the naïve, rustic simplicity of the build, but to develop my skills I will try something more ornate next time. I would take more care with...

Probably not the most impressive job ever to have been posted on these boards, but... I had a pallet left over from a gardening project, so I decided to get the tools out and make something for the kitchen. It's not the neatest job but my other half is happy :-)

Another brilliant idea - thanks Nev

Going to rout a trough into each shelf so the jars line up neatly and securely

Excellent idea - thanks. Care to link me to some please? I've had a look and the only ones I can find are 83mm square - I'd want something much smaller.

Spice rack doesn't have a back plate! Hmm... Thanks all - you confirmed what I suspected - that my very simple skeleton design did not allow a decent option for mounting. Back to the drawing board (literally) :-)

Thanks chaps. Re strength - the weak point of the load bearing would not be the plugged screws in the brick wall, but the small wood screws used to mount the keyhole brackets onto my rack though, right? Re French cleat - yes - that would be a fantastic solution but there's nothing on my...

Hello all, As my first ever woodworking project, I want to build a simple wall-mounted rack for our spice jars, out of some 15mm pallet wood I have knocking round the garage. It's a simple skeleton design: Four horizontals, two verticals. Building the rack will be simple I think, but...