New Shelf

I am now moved out of Further (I was ‘house sitting’ for a long term member who had left the farm and wasn’t expected to be back until December… however she ended up coming back a lot earlier than expected).  So now I am in Lilliput which is a nice building with its own kitchen.

I built a new shelf for my turn table and my records.  This project took me less than 10 hours and cost me about $100 for the hardware and some plywood.  I was aiming for structural stability and not looks and I think it worked out nicely.  It can easily fit around 350 records.  I should have shopped around to save money on the shelving hardware, but I simply don’t have the time!

I like vinyl because you can get $1-3 classical records that are in like new condition and that were recorded decades ago (and thus they were recorded in high fidelity analog fashion).  I do purchase the latest hip hop albums (most new vinyl pressings were recorded digitally so there really isn’t any sound advantage) on vinyl for only the reason that this is my mode of music listening, but I really like going into the city and browsing vinyl stores for good deals.  Apparently no one likes any type of classical vinyl and so I’ll happily buy it up!  You can’t even find a lot of this stuff on the internet.