Not a huge woodworking project, but something I worked in with a few others a while back. I just got some pictures today from the owner with it in place.

They purchased a new powered sound bar for the flat screen TV but put a piece of glass on top of it and set the TV on top of that. It blocked the ventilation holes and the speaker was getting hot. So I was ask to put together something to give some air space around it and the TV sit on that blended in.

Using some Poplar I made a very basic shelf. It has a rabbit in the sides for the top to sit down into and would be painted black.

 

 

I was going to leave a little lip on the top but later decided to make it all flat so I sanded it smooth. It got a couple of coats of spray primer and was sanded smooth.

Then the Semi-Gloss black was sprayed on.

 

 

This was after the 1st coat on the top side. Over all it got about five light coats of spray and was sanded between them after the second coat.

 

 

Both sides were painted and it was finished and ready for delivery.

Here it is with the TV and the speaker tucked under the shelf.

 

 

And here is a closer look.

 

 

Blends in nicely and allows air circulation around the speaker bar. A nice little project to do.

 

Nice project, John!

Nice and black, disappears as it should, and very very useful. At work we use this same configuration for our computers and monitors, we have laptops that we connect to a docking station, the docking station is under the stand as you have built, and the monitors are set atop.

Great job!

 

 

Nice project and nice work John. Just blends in as it should.