Popular Post Chestnut Posted February 6, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Our downstairs living room hasn't had much in it since we moved in. With almost all of the furniture done for out main living room it is now the focus. I've had some ideas to make some MCM style furniture and there are a few pieces that I'd love to try and make some day. So with that style being the overall them of the room I started by making the TV console thing. For some reason Megan has broken from her typical and requested that most of the furniture be made out of Maple. A few months ago I bought a bunch of hard maple for the furniture down here. The design was pretty strait forward a long box with 4 doors. I decided to go with 170 degree hinges so the doors can swing all the way open. I decided to go with some thing a bit different for the base. The inspiration for this had a design for the leg that was similar to what I ended up doing but had a snatcher that ran the whole length. I decided I didn't want to build it that way so made the leg with the flare. We haven't decided what to do for knobs yet but it's likely going to be something simple. for now blue tape will work. Finish is water borne poly that I brushed on. I wanted to avoide adding a bunch of yellow to the maple. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Well done Drew, a great looking piece, while MCM isn’t really to my taste I can appreciate a well done piece and this is a great example of the style, I really like the clean lines of it, well done sir ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick S Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Very nicely done, Drew! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bmac Posted February 6, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Very nice MCM piece, like the leg design also. Had to chuckle about the change of heart with your new bride wanting maple used now. I think in the past I've heard you have some distaste, or at least a lack of love for it. Good news for you with your mill it's probably easier to nab some silver maple logs where you live. I'm so fortunate with my wife, I make what I want and she loves it, very few requests. The biggest problem is talking her into throwing out or giving away old furniture to make room for the new stuff. She'll ask what are you going to put there instead, I tell her to trust me, and she usually does. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Maple is a bold choice for MCM designs that tend to lean heavily toward walnut. Awesome result! I like the added flair of the legs, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted February 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 12 hours ago, treeslayer said: Well done Drew, a great looking piece, while MCM isn’t really to my taste I can appreciate a well done piece and this is a great example of the style, I really like the clean lines of it, well done sir ! Thanks. I know exactly what you mean. I'll be honest while I like the style this piece wasn't the most exciting to build. It was a pretty simple box with doors. The base was the most fun but it was over quite fast. 35 minutes ago, Bmac said: Very nice MCM piece, like the leg design also. Had to chuckle about the change of heart with your new bride wanting maple used now. I think in the past I've heard you have some distaste, or at least a lack of love for it. Good news for you with your mill it's probably easier to nab some silver maple logs where you live. I'm so fortunate with my wife, I make what I want and she loves it, very few requests. The biggest problem is talking her into throwing out or giving away old furniture to make room for the new stuff. She'll ask what are you going to put there instead, I tell her to trust me, and she usually does. I think I've been working with cherry and walnut so lone it's nice to have some maple in the mix now. I will say though I like the look i HATE working maple. Burn and tear out city. I normally use a smoothing plane to finish prep my pieces, for this i used a card scraper and sandpaper. Megan does really well with trusting my ideas for the most part. She has input for functional aspects and sizes and gives me a style. Old items that we no longer want luckily never hang around long. I"m the more sentimental of the two and I'm not very sentimental. I've moved enough recently in my life to know what dead weight is. I stumbled upon a youtube video that discussed this topic. They suggested taking pictures of the items that you love but just don't have the room for. Thinking back, I'm highly likely to show someone a picture of something on my phone. When it's stored away in an attic I'm less likely to go retrieve it just to show someone during a conversation. 14 minutes ago, wtnhighlander said: Maple is a bold choice for MCM designs that tend to lean heavily toward walnut. Awesome result! I like the added flair of the legs, too. I thought the exact same thing. The pictures she found for design ideas were all painted white. So maple. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 14 hours ago, Chestnut said: The design was pretty strait forward a long box with 4 doors. i have to know Drew, on the far right hand door, what appears to be two shallow holes top and bottom, what are they for ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post drzaius Posted February 6, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 3 hours ago, treeslayer said: i have to know Drew, on the far right hand door, what appears to be two shallow holes top and bottom, what are they for ? I got a pretty good idea, not that it's ever happened to me 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chestnut Posted February 6, 2021 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 On 2/6/2021 at 8:34 AM, treeslayer said: i have to know Drew, on the far right hand door, what appears to be two shallow holes top and bottom, what are they for ? They are speed holes. That door was closing kinda sluggish so I figured I'd lighten the outboard edge to get some extra snap..... There is no possible way I drilled the holes initially on the wrong side of the door. That kind of mistake would be something a rookie does. I drilled the holes on the wrong side of the door initially. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronn W Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 NIcley done, sir. I like it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted February 9, 2021 Report Share Posted February 9, 2021 On 2/6/2021 at 1:50 PM, Chestnut said: They are speed holes. That door was closing kinda sluggish so I figured I'd lighten the outboard edge to get some extra snap..... There is no possible way I drilled the holse initially on the wrong side of the door. That kind of mistake would be something a rookie does. I drilled the holes on the wrong side of the door initially. In the "redesign opportunity" spirit, you could turn a couple of disks to fill the holes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted February 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2021 4 hours ago, Mark J said: In the "redesign opportunity" spirit, you could turn a couple of disks to fill the holes. I did think about that.... but then I didn't do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted February 9, 2021 Report Share Posted February 9, 2021 4 hours ago, Mark J said: There is no possible way I drilled the holse initially on the wrong side of the door. When I did all those doors for the kitchen recently, I had so many notes and witness marks on each door to keep this from happening. There was still a lot of pucker involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted February 9, 2021 Report Share Posted February 9, 2021 Those are for LED light pucks, aren't they, Drew? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legenddc Posted June 25, 2021 Report Share Posted June 25, 2021 @Chestnut Looks great! Roughly how big is the case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted June 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2021 It's 70" x 19" the legs add 8" to make the top 27" off the ground. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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