To position these, I inserted a small dowel into one of the previously drilled side pieces. Once you have all the holes drilled on the ends of the boards, you need to move your stop block over to drill the lower holes on the four legs that will hold the bottom shelf. But once you remove the stop block or adjust your set-up, it is going to be very difficult to get it back in the exact same spot. Make a few extra if you want a safety net. And the most important part: drill all the holes at the same time.
Also double check that the bit is square with the table. To make sure all the holes are in their exact locations, make a few tests until you get a stop block positioned perfectly on your drill press.
You could simplify this even more by eliminating the legs and cutting only two lengths of boards, but I think the legs give it a classier look. And there are only three different board lengths, not including the support cleats. I simplified the drill-boring so that almost all the holes are on the ends of the boards. If any of the holes are slightly misaligned, it will be nearly impossible to thread a dowel through them.
Completely simple to make in Sketchup, but I know that drilling a lot of holes in a lot of boards in the exact same positions is tricky, at least with my low-end drill press setup. My idea was to create sort of a minimalist design in which all the lumber was the exact same thickness and width and join it all together with dowels. It’s tempting to overdesign something that looks awesome in Sketchup but turns out to be a logistical nightmare in the shop. One thing to keep in mind when using Sketchup is how the assembly will work in the real world. Designing plans in Sketchup makes me far more productive and saves me a lot of time and guesswork in the shop: I design all of my projects so that I can print out the plans and simply follow my own instructions. I’m very pleased with the way this project turned out, but building it was a bit of a challenge.
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