One of our students has just completed this burr walnut TV cabinet using a lot of veneering techniques; end book-matching using a crown veneer, edge cross banding using a straight grained quarter sawn veneer.  As you can see, using these two veneers gave a great contrast using the veneer cuts to their best advantage.  The doors and drawer front were book matched burr walnut and was matched across the pilasters on the front and sides of the cabinet.

He made his solid cherry inlays and I encourage my students to make their own, as you can’t always buy inlays of the correct size or timber species for your project.  You can only generally get hold of boxwood, ebony and rosewood but none of these were suitable as he wanted a much more subtle and warmer contrast with the walnut.

The cabinet design was based around pilasters which are a very neo-classical design element based on Greek architecture.  When pilasters are used within furniture construction, they can add great strength to the carcass rigidity as they form a box construction.  In this design the pilasters have recessed burr veneered panels, with the cherry inlay framing them.

He wanted a very clean look to the outside of the cabinet, so there are no handles and the doors are on touch open magnets with centre pivot hinges; he bought the hinges from Rutlands and they are great quality hinges (amongst the best I have ever used to be honest).  The drawer had a fall flap to it which also worked on a touch latch with Blum drawer runners (designed to hold a DVD player).