Did anyone here build their own records shelves?

So disappointing I sold my minidisc player and all the (mini)discs.

Now I buy cases at Maverick, in the Allston neighborhood of Boston - a 760-CD case costs $70 - all the local studios buy there. It's the only place to go to buy anything with capacity, most CD cases seem to cost $300, look ridiculous and hold about fifty discs ... Maverick's are plain unfinished wood, but sometimes my wife finishes them and adds trim and they look terrific.

http://www.arlingtonlist.org/everything.php

3rd post down has the name, 6th one down has some directions. So...

WELCOME.... For more than 22 years, Maverick Designs at Bostonwood has been making and selling furniture to Boston's students, professionals, homeowners and apartment dwellers.

thanks for posting that address...exactly what i need.

-- brandon larson

I'm going to a lumber yard that sells unfinished hardwood, possibly oak or cherry. Sometimes the yard will cut it for you, so you might wanna check. I have access to a table saw and a wood planer, so I'll be doing my own cutting and whatnot. I haven't got the the prices for what all the materials will cost yet, but it shouldn't be too terribly expensive (i'm not making a huge shelve). Just some wood screws, glue, sandpaper and wood stain will pretty much be it.

After months of pandemic-related delay (partly IKEA's fault, partly me giving up on getting anything delivered), a friend's son is building shelves for me. He started a few weeks ago, should be finished soon.

A couple of friends visited on Friday, and when I showed them the room designated for records, and where the shelves would go, I said I wasn't sure if I'd get everything on there (I've got about 4,000 albums and possibly only enough space for 3,600). Maybe I'd need to put another shelf somewhere else.

"Or," said one of them, glancing down at some of the unboxed albums on the floor, "You might consider paring down your Al Martino collection."

lol

I need to build a 3rd shelf to replace the one I'm using, but every time I price the lumber out I end up at over $200, it's gonna be a winter project

I did build four beautiful wooden boxes for my 45s maybe ten years back

I don't know how it costs out, but I'm basically paying my friend's son 50% above what it would have cost through IKEA (meaning, of course, all the assembly would have been up to me, and that's not something that comes easy to me). The problem with IKEA was that a) you can't phone a store directly, only head office, b) stores won't phone you, so c) they were basically asking me to rent a van for the day, drive to the nearest store 90 minutes away (because they've suspended deliveries in my area), and hope the shelving I needed was in stock that day. They said I could check online, too, but when I asked if it was a good bet that they wouldn't be sold during the 90 minutes it took me to get there, the guy responded by saying "They go pretty quickly." They wouldn't even take payment up front to hold them--ridiculous.