Plywood Book Shelves advice please

I used to have a client who manufactured MDF just by Chirk and I felt sorry for the employees as there seemed to be quite a few health problems seemingly associated with the way it was manufactured. I remember a Manager saying to me over a pint that he would never use it!!!!
For me, there is a "joy" from working with wood that I don't get when having to include plywood in a project. I'm lucky enough to have two great Timber Merchants within a mile of me and I've always found using wood was the cheaper option after costing up alternatives. Both Timber Merchants deliver orders for free, and both have always cut accurately to size when asked.

 

It will do me then thanks pete. It will probably sit unused for a few years afterwards, like my cheap router, that only comes out once in a blue moon but it has paid for itself on the odd occasional I do need it (jointing kitchen worktops in particular).

 

True, Pete. But, unfortunately, that's just a sign that we're being given something cheap and second rate.
When I first bought my House [new build] all those years ago all the Kitchen cupboards, work tops, etc were MDF. I took the lot out over the years and replaced everything with solid wood and never regretted it. Even the doors throughout the House were a type of glossy "cardboard" surfaced frames and they came out straight away to be replaced by solid wood doors.

 

Those were the days when I couldn't afford the best, Pete, to be honest. But I had a friend who was a Carpenter who just loved wood and in those days good timber was really cheap. He made all the doors [interior and exterior] and it took two of us to put in the front door as it was a properly built heavy job. All doors are just as good even now and shut with a slick click. I did most of the Kitchen myself, doing it in stages so as not too cause too much havoc to family life. My Son-in Law [also another talented Carpenter] and I knocked down the stair and rebuilt them adding a new complete supports, stringers and risers, banisters and rails to give a non creaking, better looking stairs case............having said that we forgot that we would have to use the toilet [upstairs] and had to use the next door neighbour's for the day!!!

 

This video shows that method pete, sorry it's 10 minutes long but I found it very useful - granny sucking eggs for you

http://www.finewoodworking.com/how-to/video/biscuit-joiner-tips-and-tricks.aspx

 

If it gets too complicated, John, you could always shelve the idea!!!