Pine Shuttering Plywood or Softwood Pine Strips for unit

[a.d]

Quite new to woodwork, but each project I do the more experience I get.

I am building a unit on wheels for the kitchen to store bags and shoes and other bits. Since the kitchen is quite small it becomes cluttered very quickly, so anything to hide stuff away is good. The unit I am building is about 1.2m Length, 0.5m Width, 0.5m Depth
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I have built the framework and now need to enclose it. It would look nice if I used wood strips behind the framework, but the wood is actually quite expensive. I have seen some board, Pine shuttering plywood online. Just wondering if anyone has used this type of board and whether it would look as good, replace the effect of individual strips.

 

[Droogs]

Hi A.D
Welcome to the forum. there are many grades of plywood and each has a different intended use. Some are meant for rough site useage and some for higher quality work. i would suggest that you go to your nearest timber merchant, rather than a DIY shed, explain wwhat you want to do and ask for furniture grade plywood, preferably baltic birch or for a ply veneered with the wood that you want as the finished surface. Don't be afraid to ask to look at the various sheets they have so that you can select the one with the surface grain pattern that you like the best. also you don't need to buy the thickest ply they have, relatively thin boards can add a lot of strength to yur frame and carry more wiegth than youmay think. this also helps keep the cost down.
Hope this helps
Droogs

 

[a.d]

Thank

Hi A.D
Welcome to the forum. there are many grades of plywood and each has a different intended use. Some are meant for rough site useage and some for higher quality work. i would suggest that you go to your nearest timber merchant, rather than a DIY shed, explain wwhat you want to do and ask for furniture grade plywood, preferably baltic birch or for a ply veneered with the wood that you want as the finished surface. Don't be afraid to ask to look at the various sheets they have so that you can select the one with the surface grain pattern that you like the best. also you don't need to buy the thickest ply they have, relatively thin boards can add a lot of strength to yur frame and carry more wiegth than youmay think. this also helps keep the cost down.
Hope this helps
Droogs

Thank you for the info. Sheets would certainly be better than individually cutting lengths to size. I worked it out, at the sizes and thickness I want which is 8mm x 69mm x 430mm I would need to cut 30+ pieces to give me the desired effect, seems madness when I could possibly buy a big a sheet and only have to 5 pieces to cut, top, sides, front and back. The inside, I can just use some plywood for the base.

It's the first project where I have tried to use dowels properly. I bought some of those inserts that you place in the drilled holes and marks the wood that you want to join. Probably not really the right way of doing things, but better than what I used to do by measuring the holes out and making a complete mess of things. OK a couple of joins are a little out, but it looks better than other projects I have done in the past.

Might have something half decent by the end.