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Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II

“For those who want the moon but can't afford it or those who can afford it but like to have fun and work with their hands, I'm willing to give out a recipe for a true high-end 'table which is easy to do, and fun to make as sky's the limit on design/creativity! The cost of materials, including 'table, is roughly $200 (depending, more or less), and add to that a Rega tonearm. The results are astonishing. I'll even tell/show you how to make chipboard look like marble and fool and impress all your friends. If there's interest I'll get on with this project, if not, I'll just continue making them in my basement. The next one I make will have a Corian top and have a zebra stripe pattern! Fun! Any takers?”

The Lead in “Da Thread” as posted by Johnnantais - 2-01-04

Let the saga continue. Sail on, oh ships of Lenco!
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mgreene
107 posts
 
Small world - I used to work at the same institution with Jimmy Neutron. I didnt know he used LP's.

I have moved yet again - finally bought something - but lost my 21X21' dedicated stereo room in the deal. My new stereo room is "only" 14X20' w/ a 5X8' alcove for my electronics workbench - I know, cry for me Argentina :)

Anyhouse, I have been Lenco-less for weeks now but I have a larger work shop and THIS TIME I will have 2 systems. I have planned a vintage system for the LR - a refurbed Fisher 400C in the original (refinished) stand alone cabinet, topped by a Lenco a la Francois (stripped to the bare metal and polished in a small plinth). May put my old Dynaco A25's in the corners or try some highend floorstanders I have standing by.

My two armed monster based on a G99 should be ready about the same time. How about a 2 armed monster w/ two 12" tonearms? Watch this space!!! :)

Mike
johnnantais
621 posts
 
Ooooo..., a Fisher 400C, NOW I'm jealous!! Gotta get me one of those, let a beautiful Fisher tubed tuner pass me by just a little while ago, and been kicking myself ever since :-(.

The Ortofon M15E Super sounds soooo good, and the detail superb (on a slim unipivot), even set against the Decca Super Gold (which is superior to the Koetsu Rosewood in terms of information-retrieval, not to mention slam and bass) or Denon DL-103"E" set-up on the world-class, world-beating RS!! There's a lot of performance in some of those old vintage items, as Lenco-ers and Idler-ers know :-). I'm still stunned by the AR2ax's.
mgreene
107 posts
 
Yessir, I made one last casual side trip to the thrift store before I left NY. A 400C and garrard changer in a small cabinet - in perfect condition - for all of $47. Looks like the owner burnt out the original power tubes and just pushed the whole rig into a corner and left it there for 20years. Now, ask me if I have been collecting 7591's for 15 years - Why of course, hasnt everyone? /;0)

In more shocking news, I talked to the thrift store manager down here and he told me that any piece of electronic gear that they recieved that was not in perfect working condition went directly into the dumpster.. oooohhh the humanity!!!

Mike
mgreene
107 posts
 
Did I say 400C? I meant 500C.

Mike
gp49
52 posts
 
THOUGHT it was a 500C, as soon as you mentioned 7591 tubes. The Fisher 400...no "C", never had one...used the even scarcer 7868.

At least the 7591 is available in a current version from a Russian factory.

A relative of mine bought his system in 1964 or so, brand new: Fisher 500C, Garrard 401, SME 3009/Pickering V15/AME-2, Wharfedale W70. He was smart enough to bolt the 401 to a solid, one-inch thick slab of hardwood, which was glued to another one-inch thick slab, underneath. He still has the whole setup, but with a modern cartridge.
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