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I'm slowly working through my living room piece by piece, working in a sort of arts and crafts with an asian influence type of vein. This entertainment center is basically a sideboard made to 26" tall to accommodate a big screen TV.

Everything is cherry (or cherry ply in the case of the lower shelf and the vertical dividers), and I used poplar for the drawer sides/bottoms and the web frames. Finish is one coat of seal-a-cell and three coats of arm-r-seal, finished with wax and steel wool.

All construction is mortise and tenon, and the lower stretchers are through tenons. Legs are reverse tapered to match the side table I made. Carcass glue up was very difficult and complicated. I should have done a better job designing this piece for more simple glue ups.


Drawers are dovetailed by hand and I used raised panels for the drawer bottoms. I found I actually enjoyed the process of raising the panels by hand and it went very fast. I think they look so neat with the raised panels. I had a few marking errors while doing the dovetails. This was my first time cutting dovetails so there are some gaps but they are pretty hard to see with the finish.

Whoops!






Drawer Bottoms:


A neat way I came up with to hold the top still why I crosscut it on the TS.


First mortised hinges. There was definitely a learning curve here, but my router plane saved the day.


Mockup pre finish.


This project was a lot of firsts for me (as all my projects tend to be), but I had a lot of fun doing it and now it's on to the next one. Thanks for looking!

Cheers.

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Dan, you did a beautiful job. That will be a family heirloom for many years to come.
 

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I really like the creative design! Very nice craftsmanship. Appreciate the photo record of the process. Hope to see more of your work!
 

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Beautiful, love the proportions.
 

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Looks great. I really like the amount of overhang of the top, and the door design. Turned out well.
 

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Really nice Dan! It looks great but the tv looks a bit small, maybe a bigger one, just sayin. ;-)
 

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Tremendous job, Pez
 

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Solid piece Dan, your design looks good. Great handwork throughout, the tapers and tenons are beautiful. I really like the doors you did.
 

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Pez(not supposed to say Dan) it looks great. I like the design and the finish. Well done.
 

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Great job Pez, I'll have to echo all of the above, really like what you've made !
 

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I like your floor registers.
 

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Excellent job, Dan!
Nice joinery and finish!
 

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I have to agree with everyone here, this is well designed and executed. Nice job!
 

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Awesome job Pez. Raised panels, hand cut dovetails. Well done.
 
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