I made this out of scraps and stuff I had laying around. I measured the the glass. Found a few pieces of glass that had a curve cut into them. At first I thought I would make it wide with three curved shelves but figured out I didn’t have enough wood for it. I did a little more digging and found 4 smoked glass shelves. Figuring out how wide the display case had to be for the shelves to word I remembered I had an old cedar table that was made in the 40’s so I thought I take it apart and use it for the bottom and top shelves. I had a mirror that I bought over 40 years ago from a guy who told me it was from the 1890’s.
When I took the old table apart it just shattered so I had to glue a bunch of the broken pieces together to make a shelf. The glue wasn’t holding after couple of hours so I decided to screw the whole together and plug the screw holes.
I didn’t have enough cedar after all and I wasn’t able to buy more so I used a piece of poplar on the top. My goal was to make the case out of scrapes and I think it turned out pretty good for a new antique.
Went through my glass I have had for years and found these curved shelves
Then I found this smoked glass
The I drew out the idea which I changed when I started putting it together
Wanted to get it exact had a limited amount of cedar
Went through my wood scraps and found a bunch of cedar
Then I ran it through the thickness planer
Made the sides made rabbit joints so both sides could be finished
Checked to make sure the glass fit because of the limited amount of wood I had
Took the old Table apart but it shattered
The table top just shattered pieces of it laying to the left of it
Didn’t have enough long pieces so I spiced so together
Didn’t figure it out till later but the glue wasn’t holding. I read on the glue bottle it was supposed to dry for 24 hours. Any glue I had use before only took an hour to dry so screwed it together and plugged the holes
Added the frame and a knot broke off I had to glue it back in place
Ran out of cedar so I use pine to make the Mirror Frame
Test fitting the shelves mainly because I wanted to see how they looked in the case
Stained the frame mahogany to come closer to matching the rest of the wood
Added a peice to the bottome to hide the legged I had to add so that it could be adjusted
Had some walnut layong around so I added it to help hold the spliced pieces together
Mirror frame stained and installed
Adding more walnut pieces
Had a piece of poplar laying around so I made the top out of it.
Stained the top to come closer to looking like the rest of the case
Couldn’t wait to see it with the shelves
Hard to tell the frame for the mirror is not cedar.
Put the mirror in and siliconed it in place. The tube said clear and it did turn clear after a while
Wanted to see it with just the mirror not bad for a mirror that is supposed to be over 100 years old
