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Here’s some details on how I built the bar
The bar itself is 12 feet long with a built-in media rack. It was built between two steel support poles which have been hidden inside two wooden columns. Instead of using traditional cabinet construction, I started with a 2x4 pony wall into which I could put metal conduit for electrical power. The bar top is made up of a sandwich of plywood, the first being 3/4" structural that was screwed into the pony wall studs with 3" deck screws. On top of that is a layer of 1/4" plywood, and on top of that is a layer of 3/4" cabinet-grade maple veneer plywood. On the bottom is a layer of 1/4" birch veneer plywood to dress up the bottom.
Here’s a good shot showing the ceiling detail. A couple of years ago, I taught my wife how to stain and finish. She stained and poly’d all of this. She was so covered with Miniwax Sedona 222 that she showered and scrubbed with Comet.
This shows the bar well detail. I used two types of 1/4" plywood in the middle of the plywood sandwich. Where it can’t be seen, I used regular plywood, and where the bar well is, I used birch veneer.
Here is detail of the panels. The flash on the little digital point-and-shoot is pretty harsh; it looks better and more smooth in person. The detail on the rails was routed with a bead bit.
Here is the hidden door. I used soss hinges so that they can’t be seen, and hid the edges of the door in the panel detail. I still have to finish the inside of the media rack.
All of the connectors are in the bottom of the cabinet. There’s speakers, video to the projector, video to the bar tv, ethernet, OTA antenna, satellite, phone and IR.
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