If you get an IKEA chopping board:

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/30087148/

and turn it upside-down and back-to-front, it makes a very nice wall
shelf for hi-fi equipment.

The lip makes it look very smart from the front (the little food-safe
branding on the side edge adds a touch of whimsy).

You need to cut it down, because it's deeper front-to-back (53cm) than
it needs to be even for a record player (about 41cm).

The width is ideal. Of course, the care instructions say to oil it
regularly, but that's mainly to help achieve a smooth, natural sound.

IKEA is like Lego for grown-ups, if you're not careful.

Daniele
--
Kraftwerk Consolation Night
20.00 1st March 2013 Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff
Eight different live ensembles playing the songs of Kraftwerk to ease
the disappointment of being unable to get tickets to see them in London

"D.M. Procida" wrote...
If you get an IKEA chopping board:

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/30087148/

and turn it upside-down and back-to-front, it makes a very nice wall
shelf for hi-fi equipment.

The lip makes it look very smart from the front (the little food-safe
branding on the side edge adds a touch of whimsy).

You need to cut it down, because it's deeper front-to-back (53cm) than
it needs to be even for a record player (about 41cm).

The width is ideal. Of course, the care instructions say to oil it
regularly, but that's mainly to help achieve a smooth, natural sound.

IKEA is like Lego for grown-ups, if you're not careful.


Seeing your Kraftwerksuchelichkeit...And considering that you may indulge in
"a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is
counting"...

The Rast bedside table http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/44361109/
with a piece of batten screwed and glued each side takes a decent amount of
19" rack-mount hardware, mine have synth modules, sampler, effects units,
12-channel rack mixer etc., turned wrong-way-up they leave a nice space for
"domestic" gear without racking ears - and a fair amount cheaper than the
music shops ask for the same in MDF! The TV wall mounting brackets (ex 14"
CRT and available on Freegle etc.) make good poseable places for mixers etc.
too...

Dave H. (the other one)

On 13/01/2013 11:47, D.M. Procida wrote:
If you get an IKEA chopping board:

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/30087148/

and turn it upside-down and back-to-front, it makes a very nice wall
shelf for hi-fi equipment.

The lip makes it look very smart from the front (the little food-safe
branding on the side edge adds a touch of whimsy).

You need to cut it down, because it's deeper front-to-back (53cm) than
it needs to be even for a record player (about 41cm).

The width is ideal. Of course, the care instructions say to oil it
regularly, but that's mainly to help achieve a smooth, natural sound.

IKEA is like Lego for grown-ups, if you're not careful.

Daniele


Be careful how you fix it..

its made of narrow strips of beech (about 2" wide) glued together.

the strips run parallel to the lip so you probably can't use a
cantilever bracket to fix it at the rear edge but you can at the sides.

news.virginmedia.com wrote:

The Rast bedside table http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/44361109/
with a piece of batten screwed and glued each side takes a decent amount of
19" rack-mount hardware

I thought the Lack table was the classic IKEA 19" rackmount conversion?

"Andy Burns" wrote...
The Rast bedside table
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/44361109/
with a piece of batten screwed and glued each side takes a decent amount
of
19" rack-mount hardware

I thought the Lack table was the classic IKEA 19" rackmount conversion?



If you've money *not* to spend on the gear going in it, perhaps! Two of 'em
and the difference is enough for a pair of patch-panels off Ebay and a bag
of patchleads...

Dave H. (the other one, always a cheapskate)

On Jan 13, 4:30*pm, "news.virginmedia.com"
wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote...
The Rast bedside table
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/44361109/
with a piece of batten screwed and glued each side takes a decent amount
of
19" rack-mount hardware

I thought the Lack table was the classic IKEA 19" rackmount conversion?

If you've money *not* to spend on the gear going in it, perhaps! Two of 'em
and the difference is enough for a pair of patch-panels off Ebay and a bag
of patchleads...

Dave H. (the other one, always a cheapskate)

Its the Lack side table at a fiver that makes the lowest cost Lackrack

http://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

Cheers
Adam