Radio stand

[KD3Y]

I've been working on my radio stand the last few days.   The problem was I do a lot of nets at night and the buttons on my radio aren't backlit so I have to keep a little penlight on my desk.  When I need to make an adjustment I have to use the penlight.   Plus I have a small desk.  The radio will go underneath and the shelf on top will be for storage space, such as for my headphones.

I made it out of oak.  I put louvers on the side for ventilation, not that I think I need it, the radio never gets very hot.  But it doesn't look so plain-jane with the louvers.  I think with 3 or 4 coats of gloss polyurethane it'll look nice.   The channels I routed in the underside are for LED's.  I plan to make a little shade out of brass with LED's to gently illuminate my radio face and they'll go in the channel across the front (white arrow) .  The long channel (yellow arrow) is for the wires for the LED's.  I'll run the wires in the channel then fill it with clear epoxy to make the wiring permanent.

I plan to put some brass finials and brass rail around the top to match the time zone clock/lamp I made awhile back.  
 

TOP AND SIDES

TOP ROUTED

TOP AND SIDES FITTED

ASSEMBLED

IN PLACE CHECKING FIT

FIRST COAT OF POLYEURETHANE

RUBBER ON THE BOTTOM FOR TRACTION AND TO PROTECT DESKTOP

JUST NEED TO FIT THE LED's UNDER THE TOP FRONT EDGE AND PUT THE
BRASS FINIALS AND RAIL ON

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[K3MRI]

Your shack literally belongs on a three-mast! The only thing I might have done differently, which would frankly have been much less elegant, is to pivot the radio more towards you rather than sticking to the 90-degree convention. This said, I think it would have looked 'weird'.

Truly exceptional work!!

[KD3Y]

Thanks for the kind compliment, Jim.   My biggest complaint with fate is that I was born 100 years too late.

In my next life I'm going back to 1880 if I have any say-so about it.

A gold pocket watch, a colt peacemaker, a dip pen and inkwell, a telegraph, un-watered down whiskey, gold eagles in your pocket, and a fast horse.
What else does a man need.

 

[K3MRI]

4 hours ago, KD3Y said:

What else does a man need?

A pipe?

[KD3Y]

and a meerschaum pipe.  Or two.  😁

 

[KD3Y]

All done.
I think it doesn't look half bad.
The radio knobs and buttons are illuminated by two 12VDC lamps.

[K3MRI]

7 hours ago, KD3Y said:

All done.
I think it doesn't look half bad.
The radio knobs and buttons are illuminated by two 12VDC lamps.

Absolutely, just half bad... 🤣

I think you meant to say... humbly of course: 'magnificent'.

You know, as a fellow woodworker, not at your level of course, I know that the simplest designs are among the hardest to master. This one, as far as I can tell, is masterfully crafted.