A interesting project.

[Paul Girouard]

A TV cabinet that looks like a antique that will be in the same room.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/6June20111.jpg


These will be interesting to make , although the ones we'll be making will be smaller in size for better scale under the TV.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/6June20113.jpg


The design concept .

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/6June20118.jpg


The area as is now ,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/6June20119.jpg


No carving or scroll detail I don't think,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/17June20111.jpg

[Bruce Page]

This should be fun to watch. What exactly is the massive antique?

That’s some interesting stone work on the fireplace.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I'm with Bruce...this should be interesting and I'm glad it's you and not me doing it!

[Paul Girouard]

This should be fun to watch. What exactly is the massive antique?

That’s some interesting stone work on the fireplace.


A Germany buffet or chine cabinet. I should have taken a photo of it before we took it apart at the antique shop to deliver it to the job site. The top section is about 50" in height , has 5 wood framed glass doors, quite heavy it took 4 of us the carry it and it was a strain even with four guys on the un-even ground outside!

The stone was another heavy lift, we slung they in the window with a boom truck,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/Mar32011Morell2.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/Mar32011Morell4.jpg

[Paul Girouard]

I'm with Bruce...this should be interesting and I'm glad it's you and not me doing it!



I glad it's me as well , should be fun!! :-)) We talked about sub-ing it out , but I won out in the end!!

[Paul Girouard]

Things on site have been busy , masons , tile guys , flooring delivery , sealing the concrete floors , etc etc , so not much has happened yet.

Material did get ordered! And I moved the unit around some to make room for other work to continue.


A few photo's of the upper unit:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/22June20117.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/22June201111.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/22June20119.jpg

Seems to be a miss - mash of quarter , rift and flat sawn wood , Red Oak I think.

[Paul Girouard]

Finally got some time to work on this project,

The jig to cut the parts with,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/001-3.jpg


Stop block set-up for cutting to rough length,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/002-2.jpg


These are the 3/4" thick outer pieces,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/003.jpg

those clamps work nice for this if you can keep them out of the way of the router base as we'll see soon.

That same big spiral bit I used on the gun room work, very smooth cutting bit, Whitesides brand, nice people to order from , great bits IMO.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/004-1.jpg

The thinner 1/2" inner pieces first rout to shape then chamfer,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/006.jpg

As you can see these where screwed down I jig up to use the same hole for all of these rights and lefts the jig needed flipped over to make that happen, as the are a mirror image of each other so some slight modification had to be made to the 3/4" thick "side" of the two sided jig.

[Paul Girouard]

Just clamped together for a look at the "look" of the pieces as they will be assembled,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/012.jpg


The four pieces ,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/016.jpg

The tools used and a mess.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/017.jpg

[Bruce Page]

I'm happy that you got back after it Paul. It is going to be beautiful!

[Paul Girouard]

I've been busy with other projects , so ya it was good to get a 6 or so hours today in a chuck to get back at this one. Between phone calls anyway.

[Paul Girouard]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/032.jpg


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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/028.jpg


Sorry for no in between / process photo's , time has been hard to come by to do a complete photo / how I did it thing work out.

Still have a upper part to build , a additional piece as the TV some what changed late in the process, matching the color and tone will be no fun!

[glenn bradley]

Great method for duplicating that look. Thanks for posting the method and pics.

[Paul Girouard]

Great method for duplicating that look. Thanks for posting the method and pics.

Thanks Glenn.