Mid-century modern record player cabinet with hideaway speaker doors - DIY Build

This record player cabinet was the second of two pieces I designed and built for a client. The first was a matching sideboard console which you'll find a build video for on my channel.
Built out of 18mm blackbutt veneered birch plywood (natural feature grade), this piece features hardwood edge banding, mitred corners, drawers, and rattan sliding doors that slide away to reveal the speakers. The whole thing was finished with hardwax oil.
We were in the middle of yet another lockdown during most of this build, and so for the bearings that I was going to use to slide the doors down their tracks, I had to use what I had lying around which meant milling these pieces out of brass (yes, on a wood lathe). They turned out not 100% perfect - but the customer was still very happy with it in the end and that's all that really matters.
There were magnets I inset in top of each door, and I secured a magnet inside each speaker box in the top corner that holds the doors shut. Lastly, I had planned on gluing in something over the top of the rattan edges on the inside of the doors but the customer collected it before I had a chance to do that - but again, they were happy enough with how it looked and said they would be closed the majority of the time anyway.
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[@Cyberbronco]

You know you’ve done a great job when everyone is commenting on your woodworking and haven’t even noticed your film making and editing craftsmanship. Cheers!

[@KastnerFurniture]

Thank you, means a lot 😊

[@bethschuler463]

Dude this is a badass piece. Lose the doors. Beautiful work my friend.

[@isaaclevy7469]

GREAT JOB!

[@antigoseraros]

Excelentes profissionais! Parabéns

[@luizzahome]

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[@Simphome]

it's an evolution. the cabinet is not old style anymore.

[@litoboy5]

Cool

[@meperson]

Really nice build including doing your own hardware - congratulations! Thank you for sharing. I will have to watch more of your videos.

[@KastnerFurniture]

Ahh thanks! Hardware was tricky to find during the lockdown we were under at the time so had to make do with what I could find at home... wasn't too sure how brass in the wood lathe would go but seemed to turn out just fine!

[@thewanderingdrive]

I absolutely love this piece! I've been looking for inspiration to build something similar for my father's old blues collection and came across your video. I'm just getting into wood working - do you have any suggestions on building this as an absolute beginner? Any chance you'd consider sharing plans or even making a video demonstrating a simplistic build?

[@KastnerFurniture]

Hey thanks, glad you like it! There were definitely a few tricky things with this build - it could definitely be simplified a fair bit though by removing the mitred corners, not doing the edge banding on the plywood faces, and removing the doors from the speaker areas. I do have another couple of record cabinet builds that I would say were much easier than this one which might be worth having a look at. Sadly no plans available yet, I need to get my act together on that soon!

[@ChileanChimp]

Completely new to woodworking but would love to recreate this cabinet for my vinyls. Do you have the plans for this?

[@illdes]

Beautiful work! Is that a biscuit joiner? If so, what brand do you use?

[@KastnerFurniture]

It's a floating mortice, not a buiscuit... uses a thicker timber "plug" in matching slots that give more support than biscuits would. The one I've got is the Festool Domino, which is pretty expensive but well worth the investment!

[@bigboylikesalsa]

Do you have these plans for sale by chance?