Hello gents, and Happy New Year to you all! I'm sitting in front of the console and it sure feels great. The platform is PERFECT height for my drafting chairs. My feet sit flat , my knees fit perfectly under the front rail, the pads are exactly the right height for mixing, and the monitors, both audio and computer are the perfect height. Ha! All the CAD work paid off.. now if don't fall through the floor from the weight I'll be ok!
Darryl, the end caps are real wood, 6 different species, and the pipe is just a 1/2" conduit for tieing off snakes and cables. All my snakes go down through the legs, into the platform for distribution. And the platform is only for the console, not chairs. My chairs are drafting chairs which work perfect. Gets me up a little higher for playing guitar at the console too. They have a ring for my feet, that are the same height as the platforms, so when I back away, I still have something to put my feet on. Works great. Plus I draft on the computer, AND on a board by hand, which is a piece of melamine that fits right over the mixer. Has a mayline bar on it for doing graphics and stuff. This is an all purpose workstation for music and graphics. Ha!
Well, I have 4 days off as of tonight. HOT DANG! I just might get this thing finished this weekend afterall. Well....its never really finished
I'm always doin something new to it. I decided to use the linear motion track and carriages afterall too. So tomorrow I'll mount the track. And a couple of high tech adjustable brackets from a hospital. The carriages are for computer keyboards and stuff, and the brackets are for the midiizer and remotes and a drink tray, with hooks for headphones, and a guitar hanger, ashtray, etc etc.! Ha Hell, gotta have some fun with this stuff, ya know. Can't afford a Soundcraft or Amek, so I'll make it what I like, even though theres only a studiomaster and a couple of TMD-1000's in it(among other stuff). Kinda like a custom car. Hey, maybe I should do a flame job on it!
I got to get this done though. I want to start on the tape machine rack, the FX fixture and the rest of the room soon. Man, this building stuff could go on forever, and all I ever wanted to do was record. Talk about getting sidetracked! Like 20 yrs. But its fun, and besides, what else would I do? Go fishing? fuck.....BOR...ING! hehehehe! I like to build interesting stuff. Its kind of a hobby. So I might as well combine it with my other interests. Voila! A console.
Woodworking is getting REALLY fun now too. I got a job at the best woodworking shop on the Oregon coast.(oh boy, hardwood scraps for my shop craftwork!!) There isn't a piece of particle board or melamine in the whole place. Only hardwoods and ply. Just did a GIANT high end kitchen with raised panel doors out of Hickory. Fuck is that stuff beautiful. And we did the countertops in Black high gloss Corian type solid surface with integeral sinks. Man, talk about nerve wracking fabrication. You can fuckup $1k in material in a blink of an eye. Not only am I fabricating, but I'm doing the CAD work for it too. Fun stuff finally. And its the only store fixture shop on the coast too. Small, but equiped to the max. Cool place to work. Even do some boat fixtures. Hey frederic, if you think a square birdhouse is hard......try curved raised panel doors and drawer fronts.......holy moly, do some people have big bucks to spend on toys.
Well guys, I'll post some more pics on Sunday. Hope you enjoy seeing it go together. My pics suck lately, but I fixed some lamps so maybe they will come out better next time. Till then, have a great weekend
And thanks guys.
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Go figure. Anyway, it fit with my console colors, so I sprayed the frame, and the wristpad frames with it. Looks nice. Then I dug out the endcaps and steelwooled a fresh coat of Watco Oil on them. They look great now. Heres the pics . There are a couple of pictures of one of the three wrist pad frames, and the headphone-hi z input modules on the right end. There is one under each of the end wrist pad frames. One pic shows the right end wrist pad frame bolted to the main frame. Tomorrow, I will mount the endcaps, and the piece I've been waiting for. The gloss black laminate "hood" frame. It gives the final shape enclosure to the console. Anyway, here they are. First pic is of the finished platform/mainframe ready for accessory assembly.