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Build Your Own Entertainment Centers

Build Your Own Entertainment Centers
By Andy Schultz

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Product Description

Provides instructions for creating armoire, secretary, and three-piece style entertainment centers, and discusses how to customize the unit to suit any decor.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #707558 in Books
  • Published on: 1997-03-15
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Old Style Basics1
If you have a big imagination, you might be able to build an entertainment center with style from this book. All of the plans a basically the same with a few changes to give it a different look. You could say it was not what I was really looking for. I have a widescreen TV that would by no means fit in any of these designs, nor do I even like the "look" of these designs. Too many changes had to be made to give it an up to date size/look.

Of limited use2
The description tells of different styles (Shaker, Mission, Country and Contemporary) - this is relatively untrue. They have taken a basic design and reworked it to have a few different designs. This book is good for non-woodworkers who do not want to spend the cash on an entertainment center (actually this is partially true, since you will need a router, a table saw, a band saw, a drill press and clamps... so you might as well buy the entertainment center!)

It has an okay section on making cabinet doors and building drawers.

I guess my major gripe about this book is that I really don't like the basic design, and all other designs are rehashes of this one. I have build my entertainment center without using this book.

Many errors and missing steps make for very poor plans1
I bought this book with the hope that by using somebody elses plans (rather than drawing my own) I would not have to worry about calculating all the dimensions and designing as I go along. Unfortunately, this book has so many errors and ommissions in the plans that you cannot trust any dimension he gives. Parts and steps that are necessary to complete a unit are missing. Don't waste your money on this book. They obviously didn't waste time proofreading it...