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Custom grillwork fabricated by Diversatech.
Artisans designs and builds home entertainment centers in both modern and period styles. Eric's background in electronics and home theater enthusiasm provides the knowledge required to accommodate modern equipment. Units can be fixed permanently in your home, or built as freestanding. Many pieces include industrial casters for improved mobility and hidden access panels to ease the burden of cable hookup. Optional front doors are available to close off your high tech equipment from an otherwise period décor.
Following along the recent theme of our Gothic Dining Table project, we designed and built a New Wave Gothic Entertainment Center.
This project will be a cabinet designed following a medieval theme that will feature ornate iron hardware to accent the quarter sawn oak.
These pieces are "New Wave Gothic," taking their image from the massiveness of their ancestors, while incorporating quarter sawn materials, casters, and other tricks of the modern side of our trade.
Dry fitting the frame and panels is a key step to ensure everything fits properly before committing the assembly with glue, adhesives, and pegs.
Pre-staining and sealing the panels is another important step. This ensure that while the panels can float freely to allow for expansion and contraction, unfinished areas don't suddenly appear. Also it ensures the integrity of the panels by sealing the edges.
We'll be working on this piece over the next month or so, so check back for updates! We'll show the unit take shape from a pile of planks, to a framework, to a cabinet, to a finished unit.
Mission Bookshelf/Server
Mission bookshelf/server custom design for large books and record collections. This piece is solid hard maple with a contrasting finish. All mortis and tenon joints, glued and pegged, with removable back panel. Long shelf spans using 5/4" planks with front and back 1 1/2" rails.
Shown below unfinished, the top configured with a mitered corner banded edge. All structural joins are mortis and tenon with a peg, slats less the pegs. The shelving is fitted with a double rabbit joint into the rails.
Mission Audio Shelf
Artisans has completed a variety of Freestanding entertainment centers including this unique creation. Our client's design is based on a Mission foundation using natural finished cherry and walnut to create a contrasting look. This open shelf design provides plenty of ventilation for your equipment, offers a classy modern appeal, and turns a pile of equipment into furniture.
Shown below - our client happened to have CAD skills and created this concept design. We are happy to provide design services, but it's also a pleasure to work with clients whom offer us a detailed spec.
This unit is solid cherry shelving with tung and grove banding on every shelf. Shelves are mounted into solid walnut legs into grooves, glued with 2 1/2" decking screws inside the legs. The joints are covered with a 1/8" walnut veneer for a clean finished look. Every piece we design and build, we build with the intention of creating an heirloom.
