The wife wants a new entertainment center and loves red oak. This is the same woman who signs the checks that pays for the tools I buy. My advice after being married to her for over 42 years is give the lady what she wants. When Sharon's happy, I can be happy!
Now the "do-it-digital" crowd will be coming out of the walls to throw stones at me but I'm hard headed and I will survive. I am using paper, pencil and erasers. I am very nearly done with the drawings to the point that I believe I can start construction Monday. Sorry guys....one of the jobs I had out of HS was working as a draftsman in a furniture factory.
I was able to purchase A-2 red oak plywood locally. We had guests staying with us for the last 10 days and I had a choice, play with my 2 great-granddaughters ages 5 years and 3 months or drive to Moscow, Idaho to buy the red oak hardwood for the face frame, paneled doors, etc. Sorry...I played with the great-granddaugters and tried to stay out of the way of the other family members while the granddaughter, her 2 daughters, her beau and others visited.
The entertainment center will be over 73" long at the longest point, 30 inches high and 24 inches deep. It will have a 14"w x 24"h raised panel door at each end hiding 3 20" deep drawers. The two middle doors will be faux-divided glass doors 19"w x 24"h with 2 20" deep drawers behind each door for equipment. All drawers are 20" deep with full extention slides purchased from woodworker's hardware.
The doors will use 120º Blum Euro hinges I purchased from Rockler. I also purchased Rocklers plastic set up jig for the drill press and drill press table to drill the cup holes. I purchased the jig for drill the holes in the face frame too. Anytime I can purchase a factory made jig for approximately $8, it's hard for me to ignore it. This will be my first attempt at using Euro or hidden hinges. For $8 I can rely on Rockler's jig to get it right.
For the first time I purchased router bits from MLCS. Good service and now I'll try out their bits. I purchased their Katana line of bits......1 Ogee raised panel bit and 1 2 bit ogee cove set for joining the rails and styles. My router bit experience has been somewhat spuratic over the years with bits from Craftsman, Vermont American and other Borg suppliers. These MLCS bits are much more significant in price and in apparent quality. The cut will tell the story, however.
Somewhere in the years between building my shop and moving tools from a crowded shed to the shop, the cheap, cheap, cheap miter gauge for my Wolfcraft router table disappeared. I have looked from the rafters to the floor in the shed and my shop, I can't find that miter gauge. None of the numerous miter gauges I have will fit the slot in the router table. I realize I could just make a square block with a handle of sorts to do route the cope on the ends of the rails but....I ordered a coping jig/sled from Rockler. I use my router table in a lot of my flatwork, so I thought I could justify the expense.
I purchased two zero clearance insert blanks for the tablesaw. One will be for a regular blade and one will be used for my dado blade.
I had one relatively new combination blade for my table saw but I really needed a new blade for my sliding compound miter saw. I have always just used table saw blades in my SCMS but decided to try a specialized blade this time and I wanted a new ripping blade for the table saw. Jim O'Dell had expressed great satisfaction with Infinity blades so I ordered one of their miter saw blades and one of their ripping blades. Those will be used during this project along with the combination blade in the table saw.
I should probably consider a trip to HD tomorrow and purchase a new blade for my circular saw.
Well....except for a trip to Moscow, ID to purchase red oak hardwood for the faceframe, raised panel doors and cabinet base, it's time to justify my expenses for this project.
Monday, it's showtime.