TV Stand Build Process

9/4/2021

An updated version of the CAD model:

Changes:

• Rounded top profile rather than 45° angles with fillets.
• Chamfer under the top edge to make the top look a little lighter.
• Added chamfer onto two sides of each of the bottom edges of the feet, to match the style of my side table.
• Set the shelves 10 mm back from the front edge: with wood expansion/contraction, they're never going to be exactly in line, so it seems better to set them back.
• Filleted (rounded) the side panel joins: this will have to be done by very carefully joining the two boards at just the right angle (and ensuring an accurate edge joint) and then rounding off the join, probably with lots of planing and a bit of sanding.

A few more views of the current version:

Next thing to think about is rails. These are for the shelves and the top to sit on and also to hold the legs square to one another. I need to decide whether they go outside the panels (and are hence on display) - probably not - or inside the panels. If inside the panels, do I move the panels outside (or at least flush with the outside of) the legs (they're currently flush with the inside of the legs) or do I make the rails sit inside the legs?

Alternatively, do I make the rails more of a feature: make them visible around the outside with the panels being shorter sections that go between the rails? All of this also depends on me figuring out what to do with the rails with respect to how they go round the corner in the side panels! One option is to make my life much simpler and make the side panels form a straight line between front and back legs (which might look okay now I've made the top have a curved profile rather than two straight lines). That latter option could make the drawer(s) look a bit odd when they're open though.

Here are a few views of what it might look like with segmented panels and straight rails:

I'm not convinced by this yet to be honest. The rails look a bit weird where they join the back legs (although I could improve this a lot by rotating the back legs by 30°) and to make the panels fit on the (currently 20 mm wide) rails and leave space for the shelves to sit, the panels are only 8 mm thick:

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