Make a Riser For Your Computer Monitors

Before we can perform some final assembly, we'll need to ease the edges of some of the hardwood pieces. To perform this step, put a 3/4" roundover bit equipped with a roller-bearing guide on the tip into your router in your router table. We won't want to use the entire profile of this bit, as we're only looking to ease the edges, rather than round them over completely.

Set the depth of the bit so that the roller bearing guide rides just barely above the middle of the piece of stock. Use a scrap piece of 1x4 or 1x6, and ease both sides of one edge of the scrap. Adjust the depth of the bit until you've found an edge that you like.

We'll begin by easing the edges of the table top of the computer monitor riser. Lay the table top flat on the router table and ease the edge all the way around the table top, before flipping the top over and easing the opposite edge, once again, all the way around the table top.

Next, ease only ONE edge of the two drawer fronts. You'll only want the front edge eased as opposed to both the front and back, as this will look better in the finished assembly.

Finally, you'll need to create a piece of molding for trim. Find a piece of 1x6 or 1x4 left over from the other cuts that is at least six inches in length (we'll trim it to width in a minute). Ease both sides of one of the 6" edges of this piece.

With the edges of this trim piece eased, rip the eased edge of the board to 3/4". This creates a 3/4" piece of trim that will be attached to conceal the end grains of the two side skins attached to the carcase.

Cut two 3" long pieces out of this trim piece, and attach to the two side skins with glue and finish nails. Because of the chance of splitting the trim piece when nailing to the unit, pre-drill a very small pilot hole in the trim piece for each nail before attaching.