AudioCanberra Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 (edited) Hi All, After much pestering on my behalf to a friend of mine he finally agreed to make me a new plinth for my Denon turntable. Build a plinth how hard can that be :-) shouldn't have been too difficult apart from a couple of small details. The first being that my friend had decided that the slab of Iron Bark he had lying around would be the perfect option.... He was going to make it into a chopping board for my wife .. and after he had cleaned it up I had to agree it was a great option The second issues that really came to the front was due to the timber chosen as much as the fact that I own a Denon DP3000 so no nice circles to be cut here. As can be seen form the old plinth. "The master at work" So Four jigsaw blades, 2 drill bits and about 30 hours of effort we had managed to get everything together. So I have gone from To .... Apart from the fact it looks so much better the sound has also improved incredibly. Would I recommend iron bark as a plinth option yes but only if you have a lot of time and some really good tools. This timber was incredibly hard to work and really heavy. But compared to the old piece of MDF that I got went I purchased the turnable I am really impressed with the result that my friend managed to achieve. As side note my mate has sworn off every working with Iron Bark again:-) Total weight of the entire unit is just shy of 16KG up from ~5kg Edited March 18, 2017 by AudioCanberra 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thathifiguy Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Looks awesome too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABG Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 @AudioCanberra It was worth the effort and jigsaw blades mate. Looks superb! Is your wife still speaking to you now you've pinched her chopping board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upfront Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Your friend should reconsider. He's done a very nice job there! Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevoz Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 That looks amazing, so much better than before.....very clean and contemporary.......and solid! Great job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Awesome job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hergest Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 My word that's a beautiful piece of wood! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterbean Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 (edited) wow, I was just about to do a search on this subject. I am in Canberra too and I have a couple of decks I need plinths built for. Would he be interested in making another one or 2. The catch is that I have not been able to get plans for either, although I have a photo of what one should look like. Oh, I can pay him for it too Cheers Steve Edited March 18, 2017 by stever forgot important fact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wimbo Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Looks sweet as mate. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Reminds me of how hard it was to make my plinth. Looks fantastic AC - what finnish did you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioCanberra Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 38 minutes ago, Grumpy said: Reminds me of how hard it was to make my plinth. Looks fantastic AC - what finnish did you use? The finish is just a wax, the look is really from all the sanding and buffing he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioCanberra Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 58 minutes ago, stever said: wow, I was just about to do a search on this subject. I am in Canberra too and I have a couple of decks I need plinths built for. Would he be interested in making another one or 2. The catch is that I have not been able to get plans for either, although I have a photo of what one should look like. Oh, I can pay him for it too Cheers Steve I will ask him for you .. without plans that could be hard .. send me a PM and will can have a chat. My mate is not local he lives up on lake eucumbene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 1 minute ago, AudioCanberra said: The finish is just a wax, the look is really from all the sanding and buffing he did. , I used a wax , looks good , smells good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioCanberra Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 1 hour ago, stevoz said: That looks amazing, so much better than before.....very clean and contemporary.......and solid! Great job. Solid yes ., Should have mentioned in the original post .. the whole unit now weights in just under 16kg. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioCanberra Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 2 hours ago, ABG said: @AudioCanberra It was worth the effort and jigsaw blades mate. Looks superb! Is your wife still speaking to you now you've pinched her chopping board? Yeah she is .. but my mate is still on the hook for a new chopping board... though I suspect it will not be iron bark :-) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclemack Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Lovely work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Wow - that looks great, your mate sure did a great job. Great that it has also made an positive sound improvement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie_bird Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 gee it looks nice ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 2 hours ago, AudioCanberra said: The finish is just a wax, the look is really from all the sanding and buffing he did. Oh yeah, prep is everything. That's a marvellous piece mate, well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioCanberra Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 25 minutes ago, Grizzly said: Oh yeah, prep is everything. That's a marvellous piece mate, well done. He did all the sanding etc before any cutting as the iron bark tended to splinter really easily. He did well with a bad back and crook knees: without the hole cut for the table the peice of timber weighted in at close to 20kg. He offered to put a gloss on it but after all the effort the wax was the easiest and quickest option, especially with how nice the timber looked. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall_SLX Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 that is a killer looking piece of timber and now a killer looking and im sure sounding TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yarrum78 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 This looks great! I have a slab of hardwood I've contemplated using, but I now have a new crazy scheme I reckon I could take my TT to a mob and get a CAD image created using a fancy laser measurement arm: For example: http://www.lesterfranks.com.au/our-services/3d-scanning-and-metrology/reverse-engineering-and-cad-design then use the resulting CAD model to create a matching 'mould' that could be fed into a CNC machine to route out a perfect fit plinth, or even a 3D print if I could find a worthy material to print with. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awty Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Great work. Iron bark is an excellent choice of materials to use for a solid plinth. Was looking for some on my last plinth build, settled for Gidgee, at least thats what I think it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtf Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Very nice work,and a good mate, looks fantastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioCanberra Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 Thanks to all for such positive feedback. Have passed on all your comments to my mate, he is pretty chuffed. Though still never working with iron bark again :-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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