Night-and-Day TV stand

The new project is a TV stand design to hold as many DVDs as possible, the Wii, the cable modem and the DVD player. I could not find an existing design that fit this bill, so I bit the bullet and learned to properly use Sketchup. There is a great website that convinced me that Sketchup was an option for woodworking and furniture design. Taunton also has a E-Book on the topic which is much worth the $10.

The wood was picked up some two weeks ago, the loom is now out of the way. I can now dive into this new project. Here are some Sketchup diagram of the project.

Front view. The dark colour wood is stained sugar maple while the light coloured wood will be figured Pimento veneer.

The exciting bits in this project is the veneering, which I've never done before. Another aspect are the three slightly bent pieces that are near the top of the stand. Bending is another scary thing to try, but I'm doing a very slight bending job here, and if all else fail I can always NOT bend them and pretend that it was not part of the original design (and edit out this paragraph).

I'm working through making diagrams of various sections of the project, but I think that I'll end-up just bringing the laptop in the woodshop rather than to fine-tune each layout for hard copy printing.

Next stop: making a table saw sled which will help with all the dadoing work, decide whether I should make, buy or bypass the tenoning jig, sharpen a few chisels back to mirror polish. Can't wait.