tv stand

Looks great! Very nice work. How did you make those drawer pulls, bandsaw? Thanks!

-- Cheyenne - Nashville,TN

Wow! You are the first person to eeever say that it took longer than he thought it would. Looks awesome!! Nothing like watching tv and letting your eyes drift down occasionally and admire the work.

-- I'd like to believe Murphy's Law haunts my woodshop, because if it's Karma it would mean I had something to do with it. - K.R.

Nice job! Very interesting drawer design.

-- Mike Minneapolis, MN

Nice Work, I like the combo of Watco under Arm-R-Seal…...used it on my daughters toybox, and it has held up great. I also like the drawer pulls…...do you cut those on a bandsaw????
joe

-- Measuring twice and cutting once only works if you read the tape correctly!

those drawer pulls look tough, but make a very striking design. love it – i’m a big fan of integral pulls.

looks good man

-- kosta Virginia Beach, VA http://www.kostasworkshop.blogspot.com/

That turned out really well. The color is awesome.

-- Blayne -- Stillwater, OK

Nice stand, great drawer pulls

-- Wheathills, Derbyshire, UK, http://www.wheathills.com

Great build, awesome top. Beautiful finish overall. Nice looking furniture.

-- (You just have to please the man in the Mirror) Mike from Michigan -

For the drawer pulls….

Each front is assembled from multiple pieces. The smaller fronts are 4 pieces:
- the large flat with the lip
- the smaller sloped piece
- a thin connecting strip that is glued between those two
- and a strip behind the back at the top to give it some strength (and the illusion of thickness)

So I shaped the lip and the big slope on my SCMS actually. I traced the profile on the top and bottom. Then using the depth stop on the miter saw, I made a cut down close to my line, scooted over the piece, changed the depth stop, cut, moved the piece, changed the depth stop, etc…. just did that a few times… :-)
That left the pieces stepped, which I spent a couple hours sanding. There’s probably a better way (maybe the bandsaw if I had one), but this seemed fairly safe.

Where there’s a will there’s a way. I’m finding in all my experiments there’s no right or wrong. Just whatever works for you! Again, great job!

-- Cheyenne - Nashville,TN

I just have to make sure my wife doesn’t see this- OH will she want one!!!

Beautiful color. Unique drawer pulls. I’ve never seen anything like them! Very nice.

-- “Once more unto the breach, dear friends...” Henry V - Act III, Scene I

I know what you mean about taking longer than you figured. It took me forever to come up with a design that would work for the one I built, and about 40 hours over several weeks to build it.

Like you I am big fan of watch under a varnish finish, especially on mahogany. It give the finish so much more depth.

I especially like corner treatment you gave the piece, it add a lot to the design.

wonderful my friend it tuned out beautiful i think. i kept looking for you finished work to see how it turned out and then i just stumbled over it while meddling.

great work—love the pulls too

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