Cut and Prepare Wooden Shelves

in the shell I need a head piece of oak similar alright [Music] alright so the boards are ready and I figured what I would do is to get the fit of the shelf the wood itself as as perfect as possible it's laid on the bottom because it is gonna go on the bottom shelf or lay this on top and then take a pencil and not a sharpie because a Sharpie would catch the light and that'll get a dirty and then trace around it exactly where we would need it to be cut then we take this off take these lines and we can have two men one method is the most easily accessible for you guys is use a circular saw or a jig saw to create that cut now the only important thing for you guys to know is you will need something like this or maybe a drill bit and the reason why is we need to create a cut around these posts because the piece of what's gonna sit here overlapping here and here will go and flush well there are going to be these corners you're getting the one you can either a use a drill and just to create a cut there and there or we could just use a jig saw to go around or then sand it down whatever you guys want to do options we have lots of options [Music] so to get these that just nice and smooth I'm using a piece of sandpaper wrapped it around a pencil just to get a better radius on it and let's see how this thing fits look at that oh man this is gonna look so nice so I'm gonna remove this I'm gonna do the same to the rest of the shelves and then we're gonna for the finish would use something water-based mostly because oil they stuff tends to amber or you know create a tinted amber kind of look and yellow to what a little bit I don't want to do we want with a white oak specifically so we want to keep it Ella match around as much as we can man good day alright so for the stains now that I