I have some beefs with modern audio racks and furniture.

[2FarGone]

I made my audio rack. Luckily nearby (33 miles and an easy drive) is a sawmill lumber yard that does custom work. Among the custom work is butcher block counter tops. Pretty much any size. So I had them make 1.5” x 22” x 36” finished red oak “cutting boards”. Bought legs and feet off Amazon and for less than $600 have audio racks.
After doing this I found a fellow two miles from my house with a saw mill and a kiln. Two miles in the other direction from my house found a fellow who would do glue ups. Could have saved $200.
The stands were originally conceived to handle 100 pound+ equipment. But I found my (now) inability to handle items of that weight necessitated reconfiguring my system.


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Nice work.

This was my answer to needing a new rack for a new residence. The slabs are butcher block from Menards, and the points are Dayton 1-1/4” black chrome speaker spikes. There are some very nice (and expensive) casters under it that I recessed the mounting plates into the bottom slab to reduce the height a bit. The buttons that hold the point tips are likewise recessed into the slab surfaces. The aluminum stand-offs I had made at reasonable cost at a small local machine shop. All in, about $850 for both the rack and bridge table holding the Rowland.