Making A Cheap Dobsonian Base From an Ikea Bedside Table

The Ikea RAST bedside table is cheap, made of pine, and happens to be almost a perfect fit for a typical 8" Newtonian OTA.
The upper and lower shelves just about fit an 8" OTA, and if you remove the left vertical plank in the photo above, and screw it to the back of the two shelves, you have the beginnings of a Dobsonian base:


After trimming the two shelves and cutting V-shaped channels for the altitude bearings:


and (here I use a 12" chopping board as the altitude bearing)..