18 Doors!!

Spent a good part of the weekend working on doors for the Musingi entertainment center.  I "thought" I had to make 18 doors.  Saturday night around midnight I got to thinking I made some mistakes on doors.  One door, that covers the surround sound speaker is supposed to have speaker cloth instead of wood.  Yep, I have to do that door over again.  I totally spaced off doing the doors for the electronics cabinet, so I have to build those doors.  They will have glass, so I need to build the frames and then take them to a glass shop to get glass cut for them.  At least I don't have to do those two doors over again, I totally forgot to build those doors.

I set up quite the assembly system in the shop to do the doors.  I had already cut the rails and stiles for the doors and put the rabbits in them for the door panels, so I set up a place to do the dominoes to glue the parts together.  Then I had to cut the panels to fit the door, then put oil on the panels, let those dry, then glue the doors together and clamp them.  I wanted to leave them in the clamps for about an hour, so I could glue up two at a time, let them sit and then go back and get two more doors ready to glue up.

The process took most of Friday and Saturday, but most everything is still set up, so I can do the additional 3 doors this week.

Need to sand and put oil on the doors, then the hinges and then The Great Install, #2.

Summer 2011

Mike and Cristal's kids come and spend a week with us in the summer, usually right before school starts. We do water parks, Children's Museum, aquarium, movies, and build projects in my shop. Lowe's has wood projects for kids and I have collected several of them. This was one of the hand toys that catches the ball on the string. The kids love spending time in the shop and do very well with the tools. They have their own shop apron, hammer, screw driver and goggles. Have to build up the tool chest!!

Breaking out the Danish Oil!!

Cristal and the kids started putting Danish Oil on the entertainment center. It did not take long once the "painting crew" got busy.

The Great Install!!

The pictures loaded backwards, soooo, the picture going from bottom to top is just beginning to put the cases in. The bottom frame is attached to the walls and the first two cases are installed. The 2nd case is the one with four drawers and will hold the DVD's, Wii, and other accessories.

The next picture up is my excellent assistant installing more cases. The small case with four compartments is for the electronics like DVD player, cable receiver, surround sound. That case will have glass doors so the remotes can work.

The next picture up with is with most of the cases installed. Clamps are still on holding some cases together until all the screws are installed and the cases are attached.

The top picture is with all cases installed and face frames installed on most of the cases. I did not take enough knotty alder for the face frames, so I have to finish installing the trim around the computer cabinet.

The entertainment center is in the basement of Cristal and Mike's house. It is 145 inches long and 105 inches tall. There will be two opened cases, one for the TV and one for the heater, which is directly below the TV. All the other cases will have doors. There will be a total of 23 doors.

Everything went together really well except four cases were not the right size. The TV and electronics box were too big. I had to take them apart, cut down and rebuild. Also two other cases were too small, so I had to take them apart, cut up some of the shelves I had made and rebuild them.

There is over 25 sheets of 3/4 inch oak veneer plywood in the entertainment center.

Whew!!! Feels good to have it this far!!!