The Grand TV Cabinet
Easily my most complicated project thus far

After cutting all the project pieces from plywood, I routered dado slots for the cross-shelving The cabinet sides, now with dados Gluing all the main cabinet pieces together (clamps have since been removed) Gluing and clamping the trim for the 4 doors. I should've done 45-degree cuts at the corners, but I unfortunately wasn't thinking about this when I cut the side trim Close-up shot of the 2-layer top trim. I used regular facing trim on the edges, and a 45-degree coved trim piece under the top edge
Adding the trim to the moveable shelf that will go in the bottom half of the cabinet On the door trim, I only used 2 nails per trim piece (at each end), and glued/clamped the rest of the length for maximum strength. I cut the trim pieces 1/16 of an inch wide so I could come back later with a flush bit on the router if they warped, which they did Sanding the doors to finish Marking the holes for the moveable shelf hangers in the bottom half of the cabinet. When doing this, be sure to design for equal weight distribution for all 4 hangers (mark them off at 1/4 ratios of the shelf width) Once the doors had been sanded, I drilled holes for the hinges and test-fitted them
Installing the recessing door sliders. Do not measure twice... measure a dozen times, and do several test fits with the doors before permanently installing these Since I no longer had a garage or a shop to work in, I moved my workspace to my friend Justin's back patio. Thanks again, Justin Putting on coats of wipe-on polyurethane in the late-afternoon sun Nailing on the back panel Justin's back yard was home to many a small creature. I had to evict something every day I came to work on the cabinet. Most of these 'somethings' were spiders
The back panel attached, with the TV hole cut The day after I installed the doors. After 7 months, the cabinet is finally done