I made a dove-tailed beech box for my first hi-fi turntable. It's successor - made with ramin (or some other tropical hardwood that looks just like it) is still sitting in our living room, not that we've played a vinyl record in years.
-- Bill Sloman
The desktop I am typing on cam as the side of an IBM shipping container. Nice 1" AC plywood, about 30"x60" that I sanded, stained and then varnished. Always nice to have good scrap to work with!
Charlie
One of my work benches is a pair of short relay racks and a formica top that was part of a DEC minicomputer that was retired from a factory in Dayton Ohio years ago.
Several others are topped with used plywood that was large enough to cut down to size. the worst one had four different layers of paint, in four colors that i sanded off. I take a long piece of scrap and cut a strip for the front and sides, then use an edging router to round it off so you don't get splinters.
I still have a number of large plywood shipping crates and tops that my former employer didn't reuse when shipping electronics overseas. I put wheels on some of them so they can be rolled under workbenches. One is full of pieces of stainless steel rods salvaged from large, heavy duty wide carriage printers, threaded rod and scraps of uni-strut.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
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