I always like to see Brits working manually ,because i feel that their tools are way much better than ours in America ..An their results are much more refined
Here's a thought. Do your first shelf including spikes then place it on top of your next shelf and line the shelves up as exactly as you want. A tap on the completed shelf at each corner with a rubber mallet should leave a punch mark for your drill bit to perfectly centre the screws under your spikes. Rinse and repeat...
When your fitting the threaded inserts countersink the hole slightly and put some tallow at the entrance of the hole as it will make winding the insert very easy.
great video, as always - good pace, informative and watchable. instead of spikes into screwheads, why not cut a circular recess for the spike bases you can buy and fix them down with mastic or liquid rubber? hard to remove the legs once done but would dampen any vibrations heading down
Looking really good. I wish I had your skill, I was absolutely useless at woodwork in school! This reminds me of Russ Andrews rack, but that's made of Torlyte and costs obscene amounts of money.
What a brilliantly simple idea very well executed. I just bought a Yamaha Aventage amp that weighs 40lb (18kg) and was looking for something beefy and this looks just the ticket, thanks for posting. Would love to see it finished and in situ.
Beautiful work as always. But my scandihooligan roots are rebelling a bit at the idea of changing the colour of birth ply. And i still prefer really solid, good quality felt to spikes.
Hi. Looks like a good start but I don't see a part 2. What about wire routing / management? Anything in your rack to deal with that? Also, your isolation shelf is coupled to the rack shelf by metal-on-metal. That's not going to isolate anything. You need some kind of dampening like springs or rubber.
Nice idea but I think your slabs ontop of your legs are to flimsy. Personally I don't think you should do a shelf/ slab /plinth no smaller than 40mm .Just an observation being into woodwork. Perhaps a pair of 18mm ply might have been a better choice.
Great video and instruction. Would you detail the screws that you used to attach the legs to each shelf, please? Are they Allen key headed screws? Cheers! 👍🏻
Great job man! this is what i was looking for in building for my hi-fi rack. Tho i got a question: how do you calculate the spikes total weight capacity if you are staking 100 kg or more of gear on one rack? do the bottom and top spikes need to be the same or the bottom need to be the most heavy duty ones?
