TV Cabinet Update, Almost Complete.

[Waka]

Decided that it was time that I replaced the vennered chipboard TV cabinet that we've had for years.

Choice of wood like the bookcase is cherry. Spent yesterday putting the back panel together and today joining the sides, bottom shelf and two extening shelves.

The design will incorporate a drawer ant the bottom with two shelves above all on full extension runners. The front will have a pair of panelled doors.

All going well should be finished in the next couple of weeks.

Back panel and sides.

Inside shelving.

Wood looks a bit messey at the moment, the white parts looks like sap wood, but its where I've wiped the glue off from joining and its gone all over the place.

I'll post progress as I move forward.

 

[RogerM]

Looking promising Waka. What is it replacing? Do you have a plan or are you "busking it" as you go? I'll be interested t see how this developes.

 

[Waka]

Roger

I normally just scribble my design and dimensions down on a piece of scrap wood. I'm only a beginner at SU and don't have the confidence with it yet.

 

[Anonymous]

Wondered what you were up to. Lovely wood there and I see you've insulated the door now.

Poor gloat with only two of your LN brushes on the door though :lol:

 

[woodbloke]

Tony wrote:

Poor gloat with only two of your LN brushes on the door though

Now I was going to comment on that but I thought that Waka being a sensitive soul and not partial to the occasional 'drive by' gloat :^o might take offence...interesting to see that pensioners are so liberal with the glue tho' :lol: :lol: - Rob

 

[Waka]

One try's not to gloat, by the way the brushes are left and right handed.

I've been busy in the shop this morning, first job was to ensure that the sides are square, for this I used the sled on the table saw.

Quick check all round confirms that all is square.

Next job is to drill a hole in the back panel for the cables, here I have used a bit that I bought many years ago from Lee valley, size here is 3".

Now its time to attach the sides to the back panel, here I'm using biscuits, I've already clamped the side and back together for marking.
Touch of glue and I'm ready for clamping.

To ensure that everything is going together square I've put the bottom section in, this is not its final position, but it does allow everything to be clamped up square.

I'll now leave it until tomorrow, that ensures that the glue has had ample time to set. Tomorrows jobs with be to fit the bottom shelf and start resawing the wood for the bottom drawer, also prepare the trim that goes around the bottom.

 

[Mcluma]

That is looking good

What kind of tv is going on top of it

Just be sure it is strong enough (to be sure you don't get any raking) :wink:

 

[Waka]

Mcluma

Going to get myself one of those flat screened jobbies, not being great TV lovers I'm only going for a 32", also a DVD recorder. By the time its constructed I'll be able to stand on it, so I don't think the screen will have too much of an impact.

This will all take place sometime in the future, at the moment we can't even get freeview in Weymouth.

 

[Lord Nibbo]

One try's not to gloat, by the way the brushes are left and right handed.

But you got spaces for three,so..... what fits in the other space? :lol:

32" go on get a bigger one, saw a 46" a few weeks ago for £700 similar price to a jet table saw :mrgreen:

 

[Waka]

One try's not to gloat, by the way the brushes are left and right handed.

But you got spaces for three,so..... what fits in the other space? :lol:

32" go on get a bigger one, saw a 46" a few weeks ago for £700 similar price to a jet table saw :mrgreen:

I do have another little brush that goes in the middle, but these are only temporary until I get a new tool unit made.

A large screen is a good idea if you use it a lot, but to be honest we've even discussed getting rid of the whole thing when we go digital, but unfortunately there are a few things we like to see. So i guesss we're stuck with it.

 

[Mcluma]

Waka,

What is the overall depth of the unit??

 

[Waka]

Waka,

What is the overall depth of the unit??

Inside depth is 15", ample space I think to house the recorder and have the cables hanging down the back inside, height is 24" with a length of 30".

 

[Waka]

Had another good few hours in the WS again today, made a little progress with the TV cabinet, but not as much as I'd hoped.

First thing was to trim up the edges on the base of the unit, this is where the Veritas #7 with febce comes into its own, I have to use the fence becasue I'm not yet skilled enough to get that perfect right angle without it, hopefully that should come with time.

Whuikle I was in preparing mode I thought I'd prepare the architrave to go around the bottom, I alrady had some offcuts that were the right side, so all that was needed was to square off the ends before the angles were cut.

A quick run on the router table gives me the profile I need.

Now its down to fitting the base of the unit, for this I have used PH screws becase these will be hidden under the unit.

The architrave is glue around the unit.

With all the clamps removed its starting to look like something useful, although still a long way to go.

The fitting of the architrave can be very unforgiving if the unit is not square, thats why all the little bits of tweaking with the hand planes is important.
This time the mitred joints are perfect, mind you thats not always been the case.

Probabvly have the day off tomorrow and spend Monday preparing the drawer thast goes in the base of the unit.

 

[Philly]

Coming along very nicely, Waka.
And good to see you can still make it into the workshop now you're retired :wink: :lol:
Best regards
Philly

 

[Waka]

Made some progress today on the TV cabinet.

First job was to run some rough sawn through the thicknesses prior to re-sawing.

I decided to re-saw at 1/2" so the eventualy size would be 3/8" once it had been cleaned up.

Initially I decided on having the one drawer at the bottom, but decided that two would look a little better, this is the stock for the two drawers.

Prior to fitting the drawers for size I had to put in some framework to separate the drawers and also the drawers from the doors. This also shows the drawers fitted in for size.

Now we get to the interesting bit and start preparing for joining the drawer sides with handcut dovetails. I followed the Cosman method here, but I have to say that its a long time since I did any hand cut dovetails.

First pic shows the marking out.

This done successfully its now time to comit the saw to the wood, at this point I always worry that somehow |I ve got it wrong.

The two tail boards have now been cut with the waste removed with a coping saw.

All thats required now it to remove the excess waste with a nice sharp chisel.

Thats enough work for today, busy on other things tomorrow so will continue on Friday, should get one drawer finished before the exciting day out on saturday.

 

[Lord Nibbo]

It's looking better and better Waka, I hope your not going to do a Norm and plaster it with donkey sh@t. I know how you feel about doing the dovetails by hand, funny enough I don't mind cutting the tails it's the pins that become a chore for me especially doing blind dovetails.

 

[Waka]

LN

Certainly won't be doinf a Norm with the finish, it will have clear Chestnut finishing oil on it.

Regarding the DT, I do enjoy doing them, I'm afraid that when it comes to half blind DT I do what Cosman does and laminate the front back on, makes the whole operation a lot faster, not that I'm particularly fast at them.

 

[Waka]

Sorry about the pic's guys my pic's hosting site has gone down.

 

[Lord Nibbo]

Sorry about the pic's guys my pic's hosting site has gone down.

Dunno if it's down but I can see them I right clicked on the little x then left clicked "View Pic" and they all came up.

 

[Anonymous]

Sounds good Waka, just waiting to see it.......