Cherry Entertainment Center

This one is one of my favorites.  I loosely took the drawings in an old issue of American Woodworker magazine and based this piece on it.  The cherry lumber that most of it was made from came from a friend who is in the logging business.  Now, most of the trees here in south Georgia are pine trees and not nice hardwoods.  This fellow, however, would take some of the nicer hardwoods he came across and have them sawed into lumber.  I needed about two little boards of cherry one day for a project and called him to see if he had any.  He said he did so I headed out to his house.  After digging through an old barn for a while, we found where he had stacked this stuff some ten or so years earlier.  After we found it, he told me that he would not sell me just a few boards - I had to take it all if I wanted it.  He made the price pretty good and I spent a whole lot more than I had budgeted (sound familiar - I wont even tell you the reaction from my wife when she came home to find all of this lumber stacked in the garage where her car use to go).  Well, about nine months later, this is what I had.

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