Sorry to hear of the loss of your friend Roderick. I've been going through my 2,000 (ish) album collection and making sure they are all play graded and logged in the Discogs database. I can't imagine adding another 4,000 to the collection!
I Just Inherited 4,000 LPs
My longtime friend just passed away, leaving me his 4,000 LPs.
I haven't had time to really look, I know there is a ton of jazz. He lived in New Orleans for many years, we went to the music festival together twice, listened together here often over the years. The LP's are only 5 minutes from here.
And serious wood library shelving, each self-contained 3 ft wood shelf has a partial back and recessed metal tracks for adjustable metal dividers. They can be put individually on top of any shelf, I will leave the too tall uprights, put the shelves into new wire shelving.
Our house is a small split level with an internal garage full of 42 years of junk as well as our existing 2,500 LPs.
OMG, what a project to rearrange, discard long dusty stuff, (Donna’s 100% on board) assemble new wire shelving to condense stuff we keep and new wire shelving to fit the LPs here.
Then: how to merge them with my 2,500 LPs which are alphabetical. Logistical Options keep me up at night.
Twenty 3 ft shelves, I will use 3 bankers boxes per shelf to get them off the shelves, leave 60 boxes over there, get the shelves over here on the wire shelving, finally the LPs over here. I believe his are generally alphabetical, perhaps Donna and her twin sister Effie can find what's out of order over there while I am working here.
A labor of love, and a lifetime memory and gratitude to my friend Roderick.
Elliott
I haven't had time to really look, I know there is a ton of jazz. He lived in New Orleans for many years, we went to the music festival together twice, listened together here often over the years. The LP's are only 5 minutes from here.
And serious wood library shelving, each self-contained 3 ft wood shelf has a partial back and recessed metal tracks for adjustable metal dividers. They can be put individually on top of any shelf, I will leave the too tall uprights, put the shelves into new wire shelving.
Our house is a small split level with an internal garage full of 42 years of junk as well as our existing 2,500 LPs.
OMG, what a project to rearrange, discard long dusty stuff, (Donna’s 100% on board) assemble new wire shelving to condense stuff we keep and new wire shelving to fit the LPs here.
Then: how to merge them with my 2,500 LPs which are alphabetical. Logistical Options keep me up at night.
Twenty 3 ft shelves, I will use 3 bankers boxes per shelf to get them off the shelves, leave 60 boxes over there, get the shelves over here on the wire shelving, finally the LPs over here. I believe his are generally alphabetical, perhaps Donna and her twin sister Effie can find what's out of order over there while I am working here.
A labor of love, and a lifetime memory and gratitude to my friend Roderick.
Elliott
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I consider you wait. and you should consider your weight. 3 banker's boxes full of records can destroy particle board shelving starting with sagging. I would use nothing less than good quality 3.4" plywood. Baltic Birch and a similar chinese knock off birch plywood has good structural strength. I'm using good old 3/4" oak veneer plywood that has developed a sag over the years. (6 foot long shelves fully loaded.) |
bpoletti
thanks for the advice. The existing solid wood shelving was bought from a library, very strong. As I mentioned, each solid wood shelf has a back and recessed metal tracks and metal dividers. I bought strong wire shelving, and those wood shelves will simply sit on the wire shelves. |
rpeluso Somewhere around Norristown? I'm 1-1/2 hours from Norristown, we ought to find a spot in the middle where masked men meet. I met Bill in Bordentown, we wore masks and went to The Record Collector http://www.the-record-collector.com/ |
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