Made one at a time, to order

Boards are picked one at a time for grain and for how straight they are, then stacked and left to settle in the workshop. Wood that goes straight from the yard to the saw moves after it is built, and a slider that binds in humid weather is a mandir nobody opens.

The lattice is machined from solid, then every inside corner is cleaned up by hand, because a cutter has a radius and a corner does not. This is the slowest part of the build and it is the part you will look at every morning.

Carcass, shelf, slider and drawer, then the lighting channels are routed through the body before anything is closed up. The wiring goes in at this stage because it cannot go in afterwards, which is the whole reason no wire is ever visible on a finished piece.

Thin coats, and then time. The finish has to harden before the piece is crated or it will mark in transit and keep marking for a year. There is no way to speed this up, and every mandir that looks cheap after a year was rushed here.