![]() ![]() I was afraid that if I just tried to glue the front solid piece to the edge of the slatted piece, it wouldn’t be strong enough. The purpose of these pieces is to give the slatted shelf piece something to attach to. Next, I needed to attach pieces to the back of that solid piece that would attach to the front of the slatted shelf piece. Just two dots of super glue on either end, with wood glue in the middle, is enough to get an immediate bond that will hold while the wood glue dries. I assembled these using the same super glue/wood glue method. And then from the shorter side piece of the tray, I cut little 1/2-inch returns with mitered corners. Then I cut the long side piece to the correct width to fit the front of the shelf, mitering the corners. Using my table saw, I cut one of the long pieces and one of the shorter side pieces so that they were about 2-2.5 inches tall, keeping the top tapered edge of the original pieces. ![]() While I set that aside to dry a bit (although that wasn’t really needed since I used super glue as well), I used the solid side pieces of the serving tray to form the front edge of the shelf. I assembled this whole shelf using super glue (for immediate hold) and wood glue (for long-term strong adhesion). This is what the bottom of the slat section looked like after I attached the new pieces so that it would sit flat. I needed to attach more on the back side so that this section would sit level, so I used some of the portions of the slats that I had just cut off to attach along the back. You can see the one long piece of wood that those slats were glued and nailed to. So I took that assembled piece to my table saw and cut it to the width of the shower niche, and the depth plus about 1/2 inch. It came off as one piece because those bottoms slats were glued and nailed to one long piece of wood on the bottom. □Īfter carefully removing the sides of the tray with a rubber mallet (the sides were glued and nailed), I was left with the assembled bottom slat section. The tray was pretty big, as you can see compared to my 100-pound dog. I wanted to be sure that the teak shelf matched the teak bench, so I purchased this teak serving tray made by the same company. But I wanted to add just a bit more of that warmth to the sterile white shower niche as well. I had already purchased this teak corner shower bench, and I loved the warmth that it added. I just wanted to add a bit of warmth with some wood in our big white shower. This is one of those “because I wanted to” projects. I made a simple removable DIY teak shelf to go in the shower niche in our new master bathroom shower. Yesterday, I did a quick and easy project that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now. ![]()
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