Mahogany and sycamore entertainment center

 

Probably the biggest project I've worked on so far. The legs are mahogany (and should look familiar, as they came from the same board that my coffee table's legs came from), and the rest is quartersawn sycamore. Construction is pegged mortise-and-tenon. Some of the sycamore has a really funky grain pattern, which the picture doesn't show. The bottom shelves are fixed, with the upper 4 shelves being adjustable. Due to the width of the piece and the slope of our living room floor (ain't old houses great?), I had to install leveling legs on this. It was at this point in my hobby that using handtools became very pronounced...this was almost entirely made without powertools. Aside from the jointing of the boards for the top (the top had been jointed and glued up 18 months prior for a previous project), all of the lumber you see here was flattened, jointed, and sized with handtools. The finish is a few coats of T&T Danish oil, followed by a number of coats of shellac, and finally a few coats of wax on all horizontal surfaces.