I just built my fist piece of furniture.

Shannon W.

This was some empty space that was behind my front door. I needed a DVD rack so this is what I built. the frame was built out of pine and the back panel out of birch and all the molding out of oak. It was stained Red Mahogany.
I should hold about 600 DVDs and the shelfs are adjustable.

Shannon











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ben62670

Thats pretty sweet for a first shot at building furniture.
Ben

Shannon W.

Ben,
Thanks! I know that its not the best, but I thought for my first shoot its not that bad. I was just going to buy a rack but For the $$$ some of them are getting for them I said "What the heck I could build one for a 1/4th of the cost and it would have to be better then some of the junk that I've seen Plus it would be solid wood."
So that is was it ended up looking like. I wanted to clear it but I ran out of time.

Shannon

Shannon W.

Oh one more thing guys this was all made with your basic hand tools and a compound miter saw. No table saw or Drill press.

Shannon

engtaz

Nice work. Looks good.

Congrats,
engtaz

Dennis Gardner

Nice work and great use of space! Sometimes the genius is in finding the best place for 600 DVDs.

disneyjoe7

Nerd

Nice work.

zingo

Fantastic! I love the color of that wood and the trim work.

Shannon W.

From Start to finish it took me about 6hrs to buy all the material's, stain and construct it. I hope this gives others the drive to go out and try and build stuff on your own.

Shannon

mrbigbluelight

Very nice work !

Now ........ how about showing us the promised "fist" piece of furniture ?

Shizelbs

What was the total bill of goods?

danger boy

very nice work.... that looks solid.. and can hold quite a few DVD's too. How tall is it?

addikt

Shannon W. wrote: »

From Start to finish it took me about 6hrs to buy all the material's, stain and construct it. I hope this gives others the drive to go out and try and build stuff on your own.

Shannon

no dont u will put me out of business!!!!!

nice job

Shannon W.

mrbigbluelight wrote: »

Very nice work !

Now ........ how about showing us the promised "fist" piece of furniture ?

I swear this was my first attempt and anything like this. Granted I have bought unfinished stuff from Lowe's (End Tables) And stained the tops and painted the frames but I have never built something from scratch.

Shizelbs wrote: »

What was the total bill of goods?

Right around $175 - $200 (Damn Wood is Expensive) But Some of the ones that I was looking at was anywhere from $400-$600, and they looked like Junk. (they was in AudioAdvisor catalog)

danger boy wrote: »

very nice work.... that looks solid.. and can hold quite a few DVD's too. How tall is it?

6' 10 1/4" Tall x 3' 6 1/8" Wide x 8" DEEP

If I would have had this built I would have hate to seen the bill for some one else to do this. Anyone want to give any estimates on building this for somebody?
Shannon

Gadabout

Very nice build. I'm sure you will enjoy it for years. I especially liked the coping your choose and the stain color.

Dennis Gardner wrote: »

Nice work and great use of space! Sometimes the genius is in finding the best place for 600 DVDs.

Not to derail the thread, this is what I chose as a storage solution. Due to space requirements I made a decision a few years ago to dump the DvD boxes and go with DVD Binders from Univenture. I also use thier XG Viewpak Safety Sleeves for CD's. (smaller quantities are easily purchased this way - Storage Box w/ 70 sleeves )

In the long run, I'll probably spend more than your build but I just didn't have the space to store all the DVD's and CD's in traditional the Traditional wallets and Jewel Cases.

Shannon W.

Here is my last shots of it I promise guys then I will let this thread die. LoL

I started filling it up..

Shannon

Shannon W.

Gadabout wrote: »

Very nice build. I'm sure you will enjoy it for years. I especially liked the coping your choose and the stain color.



Not to derail the thread, this is what I chose as a storage solution. Due to space requirements I made a decision a few years ago to dump the DvD boxes and go with DVD Binders from Univenture. I also use thier XG Viewpak Safety Sleeves for CD's. (smaller quantities are easily purchased this way - Storage Box w/ 70 sleeves )

In the long run, I'll probably spend more than your build but I just didn't have the space to store all the DVD's and CD's in traditional the Traditional wallets and Jewel Cases.

At one time I tried to use those cases but in the long run i was very unhappy with them and I went back with the cases.
also I still have the binders and extra sheets that I would like to get rid of. I have a total of 4 books that I think will hold 100dvd's each. They are from Case logic.
I can send pictures of them. I think I have well over $100 in the 4 books and extra sleeves.
Shannon

steveinaz

Nice work Shannon!

Shizelbs

Thats very impressive. So impressive, I might have to try it out myself.

Jstas

Shannon W. wrote: »

I swear this was my first attempt and anything like this. Granted I have bought unfinished stuff from Lowe's (End Tables) And stained the tops and painted the frames but I have never built something from scratch.

Dude, look at the title of your thread again.

Otherwise this one went straight over your head.


Not bad for a first piece but like mrbigbluelight, I'm wanting to see this fist piece you got too.

shadowofnight

Lasareath wrote: »

Very nice job but maybe next time you should throw away the bloody tissue before taking your pictures

He was proud of the blood sweat and tears that went into building it

Shannon W.

Jstas wrote: »

Dude, look at the title of your thread again.

Otherwise this one went straight over your head.


Not bad for a first piece but like mrbigbluelight, I'm wanting to see this fist piece you got too.

Oops... LoL
Man it was a long day. Now I just got it. (Ya, I'm a ****).

Shannon

Shannon W.

shadowofnight wrote: »

He was proud of the blood sweat and tears that went into building it

Whats bad is someone was kind enough to zoom into that enough to know that it was blood and not stain. LoL

Shannon

mrbigbluelight

Shizelbs wrote: »

Thats very impressive. So impressive, I might have to try it out myself.

Well ..... feel free to drop by his house any time .... of day or night.

Help yourself to what's in the fridge.