{"id":173,"date":"2017-08-21T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/?p=173"},"modified":"2017-08-21T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T12:52:45","slug":"live-edge-tv-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/live-edge-tv-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Live edge TV stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finished product first. Pretty pleased with how it’s turned out. I finished it with three coats of Danish Oil and one coat of beeswax for the shine.\"\"<\/a>I made a quick SketchUp model to get an idea of the proportions and style. I wanted mitred joints with angled edges.\"\"<\/a>Bought some ~3m long sweet chestnut boards from a local boat builder. The tree was felled nearby (about 20 miles away). He ran the boards through his planer\/thicknesser for me for free, which was a pretty huge bonus for me as I only have a 15cm planer\/thicknesser in my workshop.\"\"<\/a>Here you can see my tiny workshop. It’s a 1.8 x 2.4 m stone walled outbuilding which until a couple of years ago was in a pretty bad state of affairs. I made a separate album for the bench build<\/a> and the roof repair<\/a>.\"\"<\/a>Dry fit of the mitres. It turns out that leaving the boards in my slightly damp shed made them cup a bit. As such, the cuts I made with my circular saw followed that cup, meaning the mitres didn’t line up properly. I had to do some planing to get them to sit flush.\"\"<\/a>I added some dowels in the mitres to make aligning the joints easier. This was partially successful in the actual glue up.\"\"<\/a>Testing the dowels for alignment. This was after I’d manually adjusted the mitre joints to be more flush.\"\"<\/a>I decided to add a bowtie to strengthen this leg as it had a split in it. The bowtie is a piece of oak firewood which happened to have a nice grain pattern by virtue of being next to a group of small knots.\"\"<\/a>Bowtie in place and looking pretty. It only required a little sawdust and glue to make it seamless. Fortunately, I had quite a lot from sanding!\"\"<\/a>Preparing the shelf for the cut. I had planned on adding another bowtie in here, but decided against it in the end.\"\"<\/a>Since the board had cupped in storage and that had caused me some issues with the mitred joints, I decided to cut the shelf along its length so I could run each piece through my planer\/thicknesser. Each of the boards was just narrow enough to fit though. I went with dowels as before to help with the alignment during glue up.\"\"<\/a>What is it people say? You never have enough clamps. I can vouch for that!\"\"<\/a>I added dados to the legs for the shelf. I didn’t want to have to make an oddly shaped dado to accommodate the live edge, so I opted for square dados. This meant I had to cut a little notch out of the ends of the shelf, which was easy enough, though a little nerve wracking.\"\"<\/a>Dry fit to check the shelf fitted well. Everything was reasonably square and tight.\"\"<\/a>Actual glue up. This was not a fun experience. The end result is poorer than I had hoped for as the mitres didn’t sit as flush as I’d have like them to.\"\"<\/a>Post-glue up. I had to sand the top and sides a little to get the mitres to look good.\"\"<\/a>First coast of Danish Oil thinned by about 5% (I just eyeballed it). The oil really makes the live edge come, well, alive.\"\"<\/a>Back where we started, in the garden. The wax was freshly applied and buffed with a cotton cloth.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finished product first. Pretty pleased with how it’s turned out. I finished it with three coats of Danish Oil and one coat of beeswax for the shine.I made a quick SketchUp model to get an idea of the proportions and style. I wanted mitred joints with angled edges.Bought some ~3m long sweet chestnut boards from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,67,71,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cazenave.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}