The bookcase is coming along slowly but surely.  Most all the material has been purchased and is now acclimated to the shop.  Last weekend I was able to rough cut most of the material and re-saw the base into approximately 1/8″ pieces.  Re-sawing an 11 1/2″ board into eight 1/8″ slices was a daunting task to say the least but the new Grizzly Bandsaw worked like a champ!  Below is a snap shot of the re-sawing process.

Once this step was complete all the pieces were run through the drum sander to ensure a consistent thickness.

 Once this process was complete, we were able to construct the form I will use for the glue up.  All in all the re-sawing, sanding and form building process took us the better part of five to six hours but gave off without a hitch.  Next up gluing the arch up in the vac press:)