Wooden Cassette Table for the Living Room
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Wooden Cassette Table for the Living Room
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When I moved into my apartment I was the owner of a great completely worn Ikea table.
With a heavy heart, I had to go in search of a new table.
Unfortunately, there was no table that met my expectations of the design as well as the price.
Accordingly, I made a plan to create my own.
I made several drawings that changed in the practical process.
In my father's basement I started the construction...
Supplies
Tools:
- Drilling machine
- Jigsaw
- Hole saw for the drill
- Handsaw
- File
- Grinder
- Band saw
- Screw clamps
- Sand paper
Material:
- 60cm x 100cm Wood multiplex plate (Width 2x 1cm; 1x 3cm)
- 400cm x 12cm Ground wooden strip
- 10cm x 10cm Wooden blocks
- Miscellaneous waste wood
- Steel table legs
- Wood Screws
- Brown painting
- Vanish
Drawing & Cutting Single Parts
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I started cutting the wood panels to the right size.
Then I drew the individual parts to save as much material as possible.
The individual parts saved possible milling and thus creates the required 3D effect.
I sawed the radius for the wooden corners with a sturdy band saw.
Initially, I had considered sawing out the holes with a jigsaw, but unfortunately I did not produce a clean cut.
Accordingly, I bought myself hole saws in the largest size I could find.
You had to be extremely careful not to get jammed with a strong drill.
The first very positive impressions I gained when I put the different parts on top of each other...
Gluing & Clamping
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I started gluing the corner blocks to the base plate.
Then I adjusted the side panels by a few millimeters and glued them in place.
This was another project where you could see.... You never have enough screw clamps.
Making the Audio Tape
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For the Tape of the cassette I thought long how I can make them.
The easiest way after long consideration was to put several plates on top of each other and drill the appropriate hole each time.
Unfortunately, this consumed a lot of material, but then you had a very massive table.
For the "gear teeth" I simply sawed out individual cylinders with a small hole saw.
These I simply glued in.
I created a kind of recess for the tape.
Here came the first time color in the project.
I painted a cut slim piece of wood and glued it into the recess.
For the sound coil, I cut a piece of wood with an approximate radius.
This was to simulate the rolled up tape.
I have smoothed all contours with sandpaper and then coated with a varnish
Table Frames
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Since I hadn't found any table legs/frames for my table, I ordered them made from a drawing I had made.
I attached this frame to the back plate of the table with metric bolts and nuts I found in the basement.
The places where the holes for the racks were, I reinforced inside with more wood scraps.
I screwed the back plate with the table frames to the main side.
Table Top
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The contours of the cassette made it difficult to use the table.
For this reason, I was looking for a tabletop that could be provided with one.
For this I had an acrylic plate made.
This I could easily make over a specialty retailer on the Internet.
Unfortunately, a customized glass plate for this table was too expensive.
Acrylic: 70€ - 80€
Glass: 450€ - 550€