You will already know that we are keen advocates of building your own cost effective custom furniture to exactly suit your individual needs. 18mm MDF is our material of choice due to its low cost, ease of cutting and sanding and strength.
We have already published guides to building a guitar isolation box, synth workstation, guitar cabinet and double width 19" onboard rack, and this month whilst we wait for the builders to arrive and construct a new extension for our studio, we decided to build a second double width rack to accommodate the many ebay bargains and DIY builds we have repaired and built over the last six months.
So far the costs have worked out at ..
MDF (panels cut to size) $56
Castors (6) $64
Rack strip $51
Tin of varnish $10
We also brought two new Samson PS10 power distributors at half price on eBay. Total cost $113. Why one of the 18 watchers of this Buy It Now auction hadn't snapped them up we'll never know! We now have 12 of them and they have never failed us. Cheap and robust workhorses. Of course all this power requires a good robust isolated mains ring, something we're looking forward to having in the new room.
Not much is operational in the studio at present but as our current in-production video playlist is digital audio, and is very diagram based, we hope to have the next few videos completed before the summer. Meanwhile here's a few images of our new rack.
Thanks for watching and reading.
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