I've had a photo of a tv unit like this on my phone for many years. It was about $1000 and was made with MDF with a hardwood veneer.
I knew I could beat the price making it myself so when a neighbour had some leftover spotted gum decking I jumped at the chance to give it a go.
I neglected to take build photos but the boards were all trimmed to remove the rounded edge on a table saw then a biscuit bit in a router was used to cut slots for #20 biscuits about every 25cm along the edges.
I glued up the top and sides separately as I had to work with lots of odd lengths of timber. The sides are 380mm the top is 1700mm each have 6 boards laminated together using biscuits, Titebond II and lots of clamps.
For the shelf and the base, I didn't have enough timber to do them all in decking boards so I just used a sheet of yellow tongue flooring with a strip of decking on the long sides which turned out looking great (plus you can't see them inside the cabinet anyway).
The door slats have tenons cut using a dado stack and slip into a corresponding grove cut in the door frames.
The doors slide on small aluminium angle strips with a thin grove cut into the top and bottom of each door. I was planning on putting a strip of HDPE plastic in the grove but the doors slide so well as is I didn't see the need at this point. I can always do it later if they begin to stick.
Everything was dry sanded down to 240 grit before I applied a coat of Monocel Timber Benchtop Oil. The second coat was applied using 1000 grit wet/dry sand paper to give it a mirror finish.
Now all that's left to do is get the old one off the wall and put this pride of place under the big telly.
