A shelf for DVDs, books, or whatever you need. Unfortunately, there are no plans this time, but you can surely adapt the measurements to your needs. Decide on the depth you want to give it and the distance between shelves. Take into account the thickness of the wood for the shelves and look on page 1 of the translations on this blog for how to space pieces at equal distances, No. 7, which will surely be useful.
Joining with dowels is not very easy without a jig, but if we do things carefully, we can get good results. If we ensure that all the shelves are exactly the same and that both sides are also identical to each other, then we will have solved much of the challenge of aligning the dowels.
To mark the position of the holes accurately, we need a jig which, as Matthias shows us, can very well be a marking gauge. Or a couple of them, to be able to set two measurements and transfer them to all the shelves and the inside of the sides of the furniture.
Not long ago, I made a shelf in a similar way with the help of a friend, and the biggest problem was that I didn’t realize that the sides of the boards weren’t as straight as you’d expect when you buy board slats that come in a large plastic cover. I trusted that all the sides were parallel, and it was impossible to get everything aligned. It turned out that not even the thickness matched when comparing one to another.
Find the link to the article in Spanish about this DVD shelf from Woodgears in the woodworking projects tab of this blog, and there go to Woodgears translations (number 28).