Mission Entertainment Center

[Knottscott]

While Sarge was venturing into the more modern abstract designs, I was upholding the more traditional styles during his brief absense! It’s a mission style entertainment center made of quartersawn white oak and oak ply, with cherry bow tie inlays on the top. The QSWO was salvaged from wood from the old wine vats at Widmer Wineries....some of it really had some nice figure. Dimensions are roughly 68w” x 22”d x 29” h. Construction is mainly glued dados and pocket holes (ok, so maybe construction isn't so traditional, but time is a limited resource for me!). The corbels are doweled, and the door grids are half lapped. The finish is a mixture of early american and colonial maple, with a poly clear coat.





After removing the old entertainment center last fall to install a gas fireplace, we’ve been without serious music in the house….a tough feat for a recovering audiophile. Now I can finally hook up my beloved modified Dynaco 70 mono blocks to Sterling Acoustic speakers (made by yours truly) and have some decent sound again!


Next up…guitar build number two for another son! (sneak preview)

[cabinetman]

Great looking piece...nicely done. I like the corbels and your choice of hardware. The inlays really set it off. You said "clear coat poly"...is that oil base or waterbase?
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[Knottscott]

Thanks Cabinetman...the clear coat is oil based poly.

[pelligrini]

That's pretty good looking. I like the QS on the top with the inlays. They'll probably look even better over time as the cherry darkens.

The look of the through tenon on the front bottom stretcher is intresting too.

[JR]

Yeah, I like the bowties and QS oak, too. Nicely done!

JR

[BigguyZ]

Very NICE! I like the details you included. I may have to steal that design for myself.

[SARGE..g-47]

Excellent job of in-corporating the QSWO faces with the ply Scott. And same for the top. I love the glassed doors you can see through. Would love to see that cherry when it darkens as it only gets better with time also. And ya got hold of some exceptional fleck on the solid pieces. I'm sure your better half loves this piece as simply put... you did an out-standing job from stem to stern and especially blending solid with ply. That is an art that sometimes goes into foul territory in lieu of being a home run but in this case you get to round the bases. haha

Extremely well done my man...

[Knottscott]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

I forget to mention in the original post that most of the QSWO was salvaged from wood from the old wine vats at Widmer Wineries....some of it really had some nice figure.

[lrogers]

As they say, the devil is in the details. The bow ties REALLY make a statment when looking down at the top. NICE!

[BadeMillsap]

Nice!!!

RReally loverly!!

[gerti]

Very nice design and execution, great job!

[Bill in Buena Park]

Awesome job Scott - I think I also like that design enough to borrow from it.

[chopnhack]

Great job Scott, that is a sweet piece, honestly and instant classic! How many hours did you have in that one?

[jabe]

Nice Job, I like your design, door looks great.

[Knottscott]

Great job Scott, that is a sweet piece, honestly and instant classic! How many hours did you have in that one?

Hhhmmm....it was on the workbench for waaaay too long. Since spring, but I've had so many other things going on, I didn't have a lot of time to dedicate to it...so there it sat. As with most of my projects, I'd estimate roughly 25-40 hours including head scratching and chin rubbing ....oh, and add some hours for mistake fixing too!