Look at the cubes in the corners of this rack. They are not an afterthought, and are not loose. They are the corners of the shelves, coming through the L-shaped foot list.

I had never seen anything like this, when I first used the design in this rack. The frame corner joints here are 45 deg picture frame designs. I have also a very similar design in the showcase (press right arrow in heading).

I may have invented this, but I find that quite unlikely. The solution is so obvious! If you have seen or used this before, please mail me and I will link up any internet page that contains a picture.

The cause of the invention (again, if that is what it is), is that there was a lot of traffic right past the rack. It would not look nice with a straight corner, legs and trousers could easily suffer. So I cut a 45 deg in the top corners, and made the feet follow the same thinking.At that stage of the design, the shelf frames just came through the feet.

And I wanted the rack to easily dispose of heat, and have heat pass easily through it. So, I made the shelves as frames only, with a groove along all sides for flat lists. The final furniture has frames as shelves - with these loose lists that the owner can cut and adapt to new uses. The rear feet are placed - and the rack top is made - so that the air also will flow in the back.

The rack is birch, but the shelf lists are pine.

I also made some left to right loose lists inside the shelves, so that the shelf lists may be cut to any usage. Even a subwoofer is hanging in threads inside the rack. Needed for the bad sound of modern television sets.

The table top is fastened with screws in front. I wanted this to be solid, so that the whole rack with contents and TV could be lifted without danger of anything breaking loose. See right tilted picture, one screw down and one up into the table top. Then, the table top slides in the back (left tilted picture), to avoid it to dry and get destroyed. I also glued the table top. Two lists underneath are loosely screwed, and the top expands and contracts fine. After about a year's use there is no sign of cracks.

Underneath the feet, thick felt is fastened. The structure pulls out easily.

The rack was washed with green or soft soap (Norwegian: "grønnsåpe"), and then sanded with fine grained paper.

As the needs change, as we all know they will, this rack will be able to adapt. It is small, but the design gives it a spacious inside. This has already been field tested!

©2008 - Original design and woodcraft by Øyvind Teig, Trondheim, Norway
with reflected replies to "what do you think about this" questions from me, by my wife Mari. Thanks!
Please help me with the English terms here, I'm not a woodwork-English specialist!

Search words in Norwegian: Hjemmesnekret tv-benk, stereobenk, multimediabenk, hjemmelagd, bjørk, grønnsåpevasket