Starting a new project for a serious audiophile with some serious equipment. His McIntosh amp alone weighs 125 lbs.! The dimensions alone make this rack impressive; everything is 8/4 and the shelves are 23" deep, 52" wide, and the unit is 31" high. Each shelf will weigh about 70 lbs.
The top shelf is Curly Maple and the middle and bottom shelves are Northern Hard Rock Maple. These will be banded with Curly Maple so from the front you'll see Curly Maple shelves. But since the middle and bottom shelves will be covered with gear there was no need for these to be the much more expensive Curly Maple.
The legs are about 2" x 3" and are Purpleheart. I'll finish the piece in Nitrocellulose lacquer.
While there's no rush on completing this piece I do want to stay on it as much as possible but as other orders come in I'll put this aside. For instance, we got two separate orders for 18" Longworth chucks today so I'll move all of this out and cut the chucks tomorrow, then move all of this back in to begin planing and jointing shelves.
When the shelves are glued I'll take them to my friend's cabinet shop and run them through their wide belt sander. Our SuperMax 19-38 will work but it will be so much easier to do it on their wide belt sander.
As you can see, just the lumber alone overwhelms our little shop and when it comes to assembling this I'll have to do it in the house because I don't have room in the shop to put it together. 😉
Preliminary design -
![Furniture Table Diagram Parallel]()
One shelf, basically, prior to jointing -
![Wood Table Furniture Plywood Wood stain]()
All the lumber for the project -
![Wood Hardwood Wood stain Lumber Plywood]()
Curly Maple close up shots -
![Wood Wood stain Floor Hardwood Plywood]()
![Wood Hardwood Table Plywood Wood stain]()
More photos and updates as I work through this project. Enjoy!
David
The top shelf is Curly Maple and the middle and bottom shelves are Northern Hard Rock Maple. These will be banded with Curly Maple so from the front you'll see Curly Maple shelves. But since the middle and bottom shelves will be covered with gear there was no need for these to be the much more expensive Curly Maple.
The legs are about 2" x 3" and are Purpleheart. I'll finish the piece in Nitrocellulose lacquer.
While there's no rush on completing this piece I do want to stay on it as much as possible but as other orders come in I'll put this aside. For instance, we got two separate orders for 18" Longworth chucks today so I'll move all of this out and cut the chucks tomorrow, then move all of this back in to begin planing and jointing shelves.
When the shelves are glued I'll take them to my friend's cabinet shop and run them through their wide belt sander. Our SuperMax 19-38 will work but it will be so much easier to do it on their wide belt sander.
As you can see, just the lumber alone overwhelms our little shop and when it comes to assembling this I'll have to do it in the house because I don't have room in the shop to put it together. 😉
Preliminary design -
One shelf, basically, prior to jointing -
All the lumber for the project -
Curly Maple close up shots -
More photos and updates as I work through this project. Enjoy!
David
