New studio rack

[Barry Johns]

Originally Posted by secutanudu

If anyone is interested, I put together an album on facebook and documented how I built this.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=1e62278edd

Great work! I am so jealous about your shop!!!!

Have you thought of trying to build a guitar?

[secutanudu]

Thanks Barry.

Yes I'll definitely do a guitar at some point. Just haven't had the time!

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by secutanudu

Hey Barry -

Yes, sir. Dado blade used to make all the rabbets and dados.

The top is secured to the sides only by dowels and glue. The only screws on this project are to install the drawer slides and the rack rail.

Are you using slides that attach to the front rails? When I worked as an EE in aerospace when we used slides in a rack they also attached to rack rails in the back so whatever was attached to the slides had solid support. Did this for even the lightest of equipment.

[secutanudu]

Originally Posted by musicman691

Are you using slides that attach to the front rails? When I worked as an EE in aerospace when we used slides in a rack they also attached to rack rails in the back so whatever was attached to the slides had solid support. Did this for even the lightest of equipment.

No, these are standard drawer slides that are used in furniture. There's no good way to attach them to the rails. I've never had a problem with the #8 screws I use to attach them. Each

The bottom rail is screwed to the bottom of the cabinet, so it's fully supported. The upper slides are attached to the side walls. Each pair of slides are rated for up to 100 lbs, and they are secured to the sidewalls with 4 screws each.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by secutanudu

No, these are standard drawer slides that are used in furniture. There's no good way to attach them to the rails. I've never had a problem with the #8 screws I use to attach them. Each

The bottom rail is screwed to the bottom of the cabinet, so it's fully supported. The upper slides are attached to the side walls. Each pair of slides are rated for up to 100 lbs, and they are secured to the sidewalls with 4 screws each.

Thanks for the explanation. Guess I'm used to slides that attach to rack rails.

[mesaone]

Originally Posted by secutanudu

The case and drawer fronts are solid cherry. The drawer boxes are maple.

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Comments welcomed.

That is beautiful. The drawer pulls look like faux-brass though, or maybe they're actually solid brass but too new for my taste. It's too bad the nice stuff is so damn expensive.

Know what would look nice there? Mofet 1176 with walnut veneer .

[secutanudu]

The hardware is oil-rubbed bronze. I have used real solid brass hardware on furniture - yes, very expensive!

[mjslakeridge]

My carpentry skills aren't anywhere close to yours, but here is my homemade setup.

http://imgur.com/ja0kAMz

http://imgur.com/lokUGDL

[secutanudu]

Looks awesome! I like it.

[musicman691]

Something I'd like to add and this goes across any racking system is cabinet resonance and fan noise. Say you've got a piece of hardware that has a fan in it and in the rack it seems noisy. It may not be the fan itself at all but resonance between the rack and the hardware. What I've done to remedy that is to make a thing rubber gasket to go between the equipment and the rack rails. Doesn't make things perfectly quite but does quite the noise a good bit.

One other thing is airflow to get heat out especially with dsp stuff not to mention tube gear. For that reason I like to leave a rack space between units if I can. To close the space I'll put in a perforated blank panel. With a wood rack what would be neat is to make your own blanks and have the cutout look like the speaker grille in an old tube radio if you like the retro look.