Fred Voorhees
07-25-2007, 9:09 PM
Just finished up tonight mounting the hardware back on the doors and mounting them up to the carcass. I guess this project took about a month or so of "here and there" efforts.
The unit measures roughly four feet across the back and angles in towards the front at 16 degrees (I wanted to do something different). The four foot measurement in the back was sized so that the LCD tv would still fit within. It stand a bit over five feet tall with the oak crown attached. The unit if 16 inches deep.
Plenty of 3/4" oak ply was used, both for the sides and the shelving, laminating some solid oak nosing to the equipment shelf up top and to a middle shelf within the bottom storage cabinet due to their being exposed. Solid oak was used for the face frame and raised panel doors below, of course with the exception of the walnut panels up above. Hardware is from Rockler and the "catches" are rare earth magents buried inside the door frames and to a small piece of oak at the top of the opening. They were from Lee Valley.
I complimented the oak crown with a 1" wide dental moulding that I fabbed up in the shop.
This was the first project that I ever "pre-finished" - confining that to the shelving and inside of the sides. It made it ever so much easier to do the final finishing without having to reach around inside the unit afterward to do the finishing. Speaking of finish, the entire project got up to eight coats of a wipe on tung oil and polyurethane finish. The walnut panels in the upper doors were finished using Waterlox.
Still need to go in there and straighten up the wiring up top for a neater appearence.
The unit measures roughly four feet across the back and angles in towards the front at 16 degrees (I wanted to do something different). The four foot measurement in the back was sized so that the LCD tv would still fit within. It stand a bit over five feet tall with the oak crown attached. The unit if 16 inches deep.
Plenty of 3/4" oak ply was used, both for the sides and the shelving, laminating some solid oak nosing to the equipment shelf up top and to a middle shelf within the bottom storage cabinet due to their being exposed. Solid oak was used for the face frame and raised panel doors below, of course with the exception of the walnut panels up above. Hardware is from Rockler and the "catches" are rare earth magents buried inside the door frames and to a small piece of oak at the top of the opening. They were from Lee Valley.
I complimented the oak crown with a 1" wide dental moulding that I fabbed up in the shop.
This was the first project that I ever "pre-finished" - confining that to the shelving and inside of the sides. It made it ever so much easier to do the final finishing without having to reach around inside the unit afterward to do the finishing. Speaking of finish, the entire project got up to eight coats of a wipe on tung oil and polyurethane finish. The walnut panels in the upper doors were finished using Waterlox.
Still need to go in there and straighten up the wiring up top for a neater appearence.