This same topic was posted by me at two other woodworker sites, so please excuse the repeat, if you saw it elsewhere.  I am trying to get all input possible.

James Krenov built at least two of these, each four-legged tables with drawers, the top of which contains a fold-up A-frame easel-type subassembly that holds sheet music, so that two players, facing each other across the table, can see their music.

Krenov’s books were my early inspiration, and one of the music stands can be seen in his 1979 book, The Impractical Cabinetmaker.  From the photos, I did a 3D Sketchup model of the project, and am preparing my plan of attack for building it.

If you are a SU user, you can access and download my 3D model from the 3D Warehouse.  See the image here for what it is called, although you get right to it just by using “Krenov music” as a search term in the Warehouse.  If interested in participating in this “how can we do the details” discussion, you might want to download it, turn off shadows, delete the guitar and the floor, and get modeling.

The model in the Warehouse has no joinery detailed, but I have started to map things out, as can be seen in the X-ray view attached here.

James made the sides of the case, the wide stretchers, from a glued-up core of something and resawn “veneer” faces.  I was thinking of doing something similar, but instead using 3/8 baltic birch as the core, with 1/4″ species, perhaps cherry, as the faces.  The core will continue out the ends as tenons, going into mortises in the legs.

How might that work out?  As opposed to solid cherry, for instance.  I’m searching for ideas here.