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| PL1:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on November 09, 2015, 10:01:17 pm ---Free rusted tool stand found in the alley plus a router table I got for half price at a thrift store for six bucks. Some sanding, primer and, painting, and voila! She's good to go! --- End quote --- Nice. :cheers: --- Quote from: yotsuya on November 09, 2015, 10:01:17 pm ---#CodeNameOperationPBJLives --- End quote --- . . . and we are truly grateful for that minor miracle. ;D --- Quote from: pbj on October 28, 2013, 09:54:33 am ---First, convert your router into a table router. --- End quote --- :o :duckhunt :o :bat :banghead: :lol Scott |
| BadMouth:
Chuffed to get this tv stand built & painted quickly. Gonna make some wedges so the speakers angle up a bit. TV is still crooked. ;D |
| Howard_Casto:
Looks good! What kind of materials/paint did you use because I need to do something similar. |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on November 23, 2015, 07:57:47 pm ---Looks good! What kind of materials/paint did you use because I need to do something similar. --- End quote --- Well, the thing that makes it look better than my usual work is the legs which are from an old set of end tables. They originally attached to a metal frame from the top, so the sides were free from any holes or markings. They are tapered on two sides (tapers originally facing in on the end tables). Other than that, it's just a sheet of furniture grade oak plywood and $7 worth of moulding to cover the edges of the plywood. I had the guy at the store rip two 14" strips out of the sheet long ways. The larger leftover piece was then cut for the top. I usually use birch or maple plywood, but my floor are red oak and the interior doors I installed have a (fake) red oak grain pattern on them, so I figured I'd give it a try. Everything but the floor is painted, so it's not going to look like a cabin. The stand is 21.75" tall and 5ft long. No other scrap wood I had laying around was used. One sheet (in addition to the legs and trim) was enough with a little bit to spare. It was assembled using a kreg jig and kreg screws. This is one of those tools I wish I'd bought ten years ago. The bottom shelf is only deep enough to hold the dvd/bluray cases plus the thickness of the moulding. The big empty area behind there gives the power strip, wall warts, & a 5 port Ethernet switch a place to live. For the paint, I used Valspar latex enamel in Satin Black. At Lowe's it's over by the spray paint above the canned rustoleum. The grain still shows through when the light hits it. Not sure if going with satin was a good choice or not. It seems to pick up dust very easily. I built a low shelving unit a couple years ago that I made a few mistakes on. First, it was just under 11" deep to get an extra strip out of the sheet, but I never liked how far the plugs in the back of the stereo receiver stuck out. 14" worked out much better. On that one I used black stain instead of paint because I wanted the woodgrain to show through. It looked like I'd used cheap watery dollar store spray paint that wouldn't cover. It didn't look like stain at all, just milky uneven paint. |
| Howard_Casto:
Well it turned out really nice, or at least it looks that way from the pics. I'm so jealous of the fact that you have a kreg jig. I've been drooling over those for a while now. I need to build something to display all my consoles but I'm not sure where to start. Originally I wanted to either buy something or mimic the world of Nintendo cabinets, but I'm starting to see that they won't suit my needs. You see I have the box to some of the consoles and I'd kind of like to display them behind the console itself. That means the shelves need to be really deep but at the same time I want the whole thing to be open so the consoles can be seen easily. I've got a bunch. I have: NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii u, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Sega Genesis, Sega Dreamcast and some misc stuff like a DS and a Game Gear ect.... I'd like to reserve room for expansion as well. To make things even more complicated I don't have a lot of room. Any piece I make really needs to be 3 feet wide or less. |
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