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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!
mario_b
johnnantais
621 posts
 
Hi all, just a quickie here Tessera: I went to an Independent Grocer and found Cameo right there on the shelf, also often found in Loeb's or Loblaws, if not indeed at the Home Hardware. Rubber Renew is found at electronics stores, but lacquer thinner - also at Home Hardware :-) - is just as good.

The Lenco/RS-A1/Denon DL-103 combo is one of the most ELECTRIFYING and exciting/musical combos I have ever heard, and the RS tonearm SO good that the Denon on it matches a state-of-the-art cartridge on almost any other tonearm in terms of detail! Given their respective prices, a helluva bargain, especially when you throw in the Mighty Lenco :-)!! If a thief were to break into my home and steal every tonearm and cartridge I had, but left the RS/Denon behind, I could easily live with it as my sole combo for the rest of my life, it does NOTHING wrong, musically-speaking. The JMW with a good MC, however, is more perfectly balanced and neutral (The RS is not strictly neutral), so it's sophistication vs DRAMA and fire (not that the JMW/MC -- and various MMs - is lacking in excitement). Another great combo is the MG-1/Dyna 17D MKIII, which together on the Lenco is FIRE AND balance!! Likely other great combos out there too (low-mass/Grado, RS/MM, etc.)!

Enjoy your idlers all!!
mario_b OP
147 posts
 
Hi Kravi4ka,

Not sure whether your question got answered. Make the armboard 1/8" to 3/16" thinner than your plinths top layer.
This will be about 3 - 5 mm. 5/8th should be fine if you'll be attaching the armboard directly to the second layer.

- Mario
oregon
826 posts
 
Jean,
Thanks for your input.
Anyone have a 17D III they are selling???
kravi4ka
12 posts
 
Thanks Mario,

That was exaclty what I was asking :) I think I will borrow some money and buy the Rs1... And I have a shelter 501 in my mind, a few people have repoorted great results with that combination. Thanks guys,I am working on the Lenco, pictures soon I hope
bolson
36 posts
 
Jean, I suspect that you're racing right now to finish various projects for people before you sail off for your Mediterranean travels and adventure with Srajan. Before you leave, I want to express appreciation for your sense of adventure, all the trouble you're taking to pull this review off, and your dedication to the idler wheel revival. Bon voyage!

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
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