Kind of
uncanny to say the least!
After
I had built our new red
oak cabinets for our kitchen, my wife needed another item made to complement
her I-Pod player. The player is designed for an under cabinet mounting
and we didn't want to screw the mounting brackets to the underneath side
of the new cabinet frames.
With
this in mind, I decided to make a stand to hold the player at a height
that would be similar to the intended under cabinet mounted height and
so that it would not be sitting directly on our new Corian®
countertop.
I began
by taking the overall measurements of the I-Pod player and the distance
of the spacing from the top surface of the counter top and the bottom of
the upper cabinets. With these dimensions determined, I went into
the shop to cut the pieces for a very simple stand to accommodate the player.
This
project was not very complicated at all. Not wanting to over design
this thing, I simply cut boards to the dimensions needed, edge glued some
of them together to get the desired width and let them dry. I then
cut half lapped joints at the rear of the stand and routed dados where
the shelf was to be placed.
The
last step before the glue up of all the parts was to bore a hole in the
back to accommodate the cord to the player. The pictures below show
the assembled stand after the assembly and prior to applying the finish
and top coating.
Left Side View
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Right Side View
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One of
the other things that I did to the stand was to cut reliefs along the bottom
edges of the sides to give the stand a little more interest than just the
appearance of being basically a "box". You can see this in most of
the photos on this page. The picture below shows the way the l-Pod
stand looked after applying the stain and clear topcoat (which matches
our kitchen cabinets).
Again,
the project was really very simple but kept me busy doing something in
the shop and out from under my wife's feet! After the finish had
dried, we set the stand in the back corner of our new kitchen counter.
As you can see in the photo below, it really looks good and not out of
place with our cabinets.
The space
below the shelf will eventually be filled with some of my wife's most favorite
cookbooks.
As
always, any comments will be welcomed.
Dave
dave@oldaveswoodshop.com
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