It's good to have an old, unmarried friend with disposable money and just moved to a bigger apartment. Perfect situation for furniture sales, isn't it?
Visiting his new place, I saw no TV stand and apparently he needed something to hold on his flat-screen TV higher. So I offered to make one for reasonable price. The price was half as it should be but enough to cover the production cost. I thought it was good chance to promote my product as he often invite people to his home.
I finished this project in two weeks, from sketching detail to wrapping the stand with blanket. Next time I make the same thing I'd finish it in a week. (If I work hard.) At this moment you might guess it's super simple, less detailed object. I hope you admit your guess was wrong at the bottom of this post.
Just finished rough-milling. Yellow one is Keyaki, red one is unknown but really-really good stuff, doesn't warp any at all.
A mock-up of leg part. My friend loves carved leg, don't know why. I tried several pattern of it and realized it's not easy to draw an elegant line for it. It took a while to have a satisfying model.
I forgot to count the number of mortises but it had many. Strong enough, huh?
Edge jointing. So easy if you have some sort of machine.
This time I tried a new oil. It says it's made of rice or something. Quite Japanese. It drys fine and gives good sheen with just one coat.
Now it comes to (probably) fun part. Surprisingly enough, spoke shave worked. I thought it was to hard to make shavings. It saved time and a few sheet of sand paper. (#80 grid.)
Probably the apron should have rounded face, I regret a bit.
The little pieces above are parts to hold the top. Cheaper than brass, easier to make. The glue-up was pretty busy. I glued long side first, which was my fault, so I had to glue all the short side stretcher at one time.
There's no intention of choosing grain for top. It'll be covered by TV anyway.
I delivered it the other day and my friend loves it. He knows nothing about woodworking. It was funny that he thought I "bent" the leg because the grain followed the curve. I explained about the details little by little and he seemed to understand this stand was different from IKEA one. I'm curious to see how this piece will affect his point of view for furniture purchasing.
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Nothing like making a client a convert! Congrats on the commission, turned out nice.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the domino.
tyler
Very nice! I too would like to hear about the performance of the ultimate weapon.
Byron
Nice work Daisuke
And I LOVE the teak work bench! Wow!
Awesome. Goddddd that Teak bench! HAhahah Crazy.
And that reddish wood looks very nice.
Don't know that I've ever seen anything like it... Is it dense or light?
you can punch a mortise of 20mm/20mm width/depth in 6-10 sec. and half a pencil mark (0.3mm) accuracy, which a domino piece can tolerate. How about that?
It's not as flexible as XY table, though it's a perfect machine for most of realistic commission work, like table, chair, stand.
The reddish wood is as dense as Oak, it seems like Moabi, African wood.
Teak is perfect for bench top.
Beautiful stand Daisuke, really lovely work! Surely now he'll need a coffee table, maybe some end tables that match no? :-) And not that it needs repeating yet again in these comments but that teak bench, c'est vraiment beau monsieur - did you make it or buy it?
-Andrea
Hey Andrea, thanks for your comment. I wasn't able to find a Teak bench top sale ad, so I made it. It doesn't make any seasonal move, which is really helpful.
Now it seems that I created a monster, my friend who I mentioned in the post has asked me to make a coffee table, two chest, and a small side board.
Anyway, I guess it's time for you to start a blog!
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