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Shelving Suggestions?
palmer6strings:
Though peg-board may sound like a good idea, I personally wouldn't use it for shelving. But I'll say why.
You would have to do some precise measuring and cutting to get everything to line up fairly well. There would be a lot of trimming and resizing since you couldn't just whack the size you need off the top.
You also would need a nice fitting dowel rod to fit the holes and since the holes go all the way through the board you could have a chance of the dowels falling out the sides.
Plus when you get it all put together, since it's pressed fiberboard you would run into some of the same issues you already have.
If I was going to that much effort to make some good shelves, I would just go get some 1x6s and start from scratch.
A 6x4 set of shelves shouldn't be that expensive to make.
Hell I could help you draw up some plans sometime if you want.
Hope that's at least partially helpful to ya my friend.
Polygon:
I'd just build your own. Get some 6' sheets of 1x6 pine. That should give you about 8 shelves spaced 8" apart. Then just stain it when you're done. That's what I'm going to do. It will be higher quality and cheaper.
wiggy:
Replace cardboard with a sheet of 1/4" plywood, screw the shelves in from behind, done and it'll only cost about 10 bucks for the plywood and a couple of bucks for the wood screws.
Home Depot will cut the plywood to size, so the only tools you really need are a drill and screwdriver. Hell, get self-tapping screws and you can make do with just a screwdriver.