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My first "cabinet" was a construction of four boards - 2 long ones and 2 short ones - arranged in a rectangular fashion. Not elegant at all, but it filled the bill for holding modules to some degree.

Second cabinet was very similar to Adam's, except not made from a kit - just used red oak boards from home depot basically. It looked fairly serious, and worked well - the only problem was that when I designed it I still had a few dotcom modules, and envisioned getting some more, so I didn't really measure the length right, and as it turned out an even number of either format modules didn't fit. When I ditched the dotcom stuff and bought a bunch of stooge rails, it was about 1/2u too small.

Third cabinet is a redoing of the second, with a longer overall length - it's 24u long, so 4 stooge brackets will fit across it making it a 48u cabinet in total. It's currently full, and more modules are on the way, so I'm going to have to build another 24u cabinet to go on top, and probably another one of those in the not too distant future.

I also have one of those keyboard stands you have, but it's packed up in the garage right now - as Adam mentioned these things are heavy! While I've had this thing sitting on it for a while, and also on an ultimate stand that currently just holds my JD-800, I don't really trust these things with the pounds, and am currently using a very solid metal office desk stand thing.

On Dec 28, 2007 12:06 PM, Jeff Laity <synthetic@...> wrote:

I'm planning to build my own cabinet for a MOTM system. My first spec
for modules came up with 35u. I'm sure that will go up eventually, but
I also don't want a giant empty cabinet while I build my system.
Mostly, it will freak out the wife. How have you guys gone about this?
Did you build a small cabinet during the startup phase, buy your synth
all at once, or stare at a half-empty cabinet for a year?

If I do build a large cabinet, it will probably be about the size of
the Dotcom 44u cabinet (52u MOTM). I would like something that will
fit on top of this stand:

http://www.jefflaity.com/studio/studios_large/xstand_01.jpg

Plan B would be to build something like the 22u Dotcom cabinet, but
I'm worried that I'd fill it right away. I've seen quite a few stories
of people who outgrew their 1-row cabinet almost right away.

Other ideas would be to build the Dotcom 44u, but with a top row that
doubles as a bookshelf during the build process. Or a pair of 22u
cabinets stacked on each other, though that wouldn't work or function
as well. Or rack rails as I build up modules, though I plan to get to
10u pretty soon.

Let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks, -jl

 

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