How do you store your collection?

Levi · Post by **Levi** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:04 pm

Levi wrote:
Noisenik wrote:
Levi wrote:Now on a bookshelf but there are too many on one shelf (+/- 175 records), so I'm going to change that. Probably will become a system like this one, but self-made:

http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 0130096183

Will be easier to transport in this way, which is convenient in my situation.
This cubes look pretty neat. Are they worth 20€ apiece? You said yours will be a product of DIY. By yourself?

Well, I think those cubes are pretty pricey (but solid), therefor I'm going to make them myself by using 'furniture wood'. Those are MDF plates (same as the cubes) with a wood structure, I'm sure you understand what I'm talking about; it's the stuff most of those built-it-yourself furniture packages are made off. It should look +/- the same as the cubes, but not with rounded edges. My dad has the material to do that, so shouldn't be a problem, a day's work I guess. Will be alot cheaper than those cubes and I can choose the size etc.

And those cubes are only delivered inside the UK, so that rules out buying.

Bought some wood yesterday and started with it today. Finished 4 cubes, they measure 40 x 40 cm, in oak. Looks just the way I wanted it, very pleased with it. The material costed me 16 euros per cube, so that's a lot cheaper than the 20 Pounds of the cubes on Ebay. Will take a picture tomorrow.

Noisenik · Post by **Noisenik** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:22 am

Levi wrote:
Bought some wood yesterday and started with it today. Finished 4 cubes, they measure 40 x 40 cm, in oak. Looks just the way I wanted it, very pleased with it. The material costed me 16 euros per cube, so that's a lot cheaper than the 20 Pounds of the cubes on Ebay. Will take a picture tomorrow.

Cool. I'm quite eager to see your work. I will rather contact local woodworker. My hands were not made for design, hehe. God knows if he could made 'em that slick as iCubes are.

Levi · Post by **Levi** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:07 pm

Sorry 'bout the shitty quality, but it gives you an idea. The measurements are 40 x 40 because the panels I used had those measurements, so the records stand in a bit deeper and the cube is a bit higher than the records itself. Had it sawed in the shop and only had to put 'em together, but it took me and my dad +/- 3 hours for 4 cubes. Now I'm gonna put my records in there, should be space for about 80 records in one cube.

peterott · Post by **peterott** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:17 pm

Ikea Billy shelf (50 Euro) with 6 CD-inserts (20 Euro each). Costly but up to 800 CDs fit into these shelves and Billy doesn't hurt anything.

LPs are still in my banana-boxes as I don't find any better boxes that a more stable though...

Noisenik · Post by **Noisenik** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:26 pm

Levi wrote: Sorry 'bout the shitty quality, but it gives you an idea. The measurements are 40 x 40 because the panels I used had those measurements, so the records stand in a bit deeper and the cube is a bit higher than the records itself. Had it sawed in the shop and only had to put 'em together, but it took me and my dad +/- 3 hours for 4 cubes. Now I'm gonna put my records in there, should be space for about 80 records in one cube.

You have done quite good job. They look very neat. Even colour of wood fits in the room. Killer! Seem that round edges add to the price. Could you buy pieces with already round edges in your local wood shop?

Levi · Post by **Levi** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:28 pm

Noisenik wrote:
Levi wrote: Sorry 'bout the shitty quality, but it gives you an idea. The measurements are 40 x 40 because the panels I used had those measurements, so the records stand in a bit deeper and the cube is a bit higher than the records itself. Had it sawed in the shop and only had to put 'em together, but it took me and my dad +/- 3 hours for 4 cubes. Now I'm gonna put my records in there, should be space for about 80 records in one cube.
You have done quite good job. They look very neat. Even colour of wood fits in the room. Killer! Seem that round edges add to the price. Could you buy pieces with already round edges in your local wood shop?

Yeah there are panels with rounded sides, but those are a lot more expensive. For example, one panel of 250 cm costs 11,89 euro, while the similar panel with rounded edges costs 16,99 euro. I needed 3 of those panels (and 1 smaller for the back, cause there's an opening on the top of the backside), so that makes quite a difference. But these rounded panels are rounded as a whole, so if you cut them in the size you want, you again have two right edged sides and you'll have to get those round again once the cube is made. That's a lot of fuss and it will never look like the cubes from ebay, cause that's machine-made and fit together in such a way you have rounded edges. Now I had to put the top panel on the two side panels to make sure it can carry the weight (in the long term I want 4 cubes on each other), so that would mean I have to polish the edged till they are round, but that is meant to go wrong.
Long story to say this is the easiest way if you do it yourself. Maybe a wood worker can do it otherwise, but it'll probably cost you more. There is a rather fair choice of wood color/paterns in these panels however, so you can find something that fits your taste/interior.

Thanks by the way. They even look better with records in it, I'll see if I can take a picture of it tomorrow. That is if everybody isn't full of my do-it-yourself stories

Post by **DaN** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:36 am

Levi wrote:They even look better with records in it, I'll see if I can take a picture of it tomorrow. That is if everybody isn't full of my do-it-yourself stories

Confess: That's your entire record collection right there

Levi · Post by **Levi** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:13 pm

Ok, I admit. I just went out and bought 255 shit records for 10 euros to get the cubes filled

sovdat · Post by **sovdat** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:15 pm

peterott wrote:Ikea Billy shelf (50 Euro) with 6 CD-inserts (20 Euro each). Costly but up to 800 CDs fit into these shelves and Billy doesn't hurt anything.

Do you have a picture of it? Just to see what do you mean with "6 CD inserts" (in a Ikea billy shelf?)

peterott · Post by **peterott** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:02 am

sovdat wrote:
peterott wrote:Ikea Billy shelf (50 Euro) with 6 CD-inserts (20 Euro each). Costly but up to 800 CDs fit into these shelves and Billy doesn't hurt anything.

Do you have a picture of it? Just to see what do you mean with "6 CD inserts" (in a Ikea billy shelf?)

this is Billy
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/s ... ctId=43707
with 6 floors

and this is put inside on the 6 floors
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/s ... ctId=11359

stable like hell. Just imagine now 800-900 CDs inside

Crows In Black · Post by **Crows In Black** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:15 am

I just use milk crates, they are the exact right size to fit LPs in

Nicko McBuff · Post by **Nicko McBuff** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:33 am

Thick cardboard boxes

decibelrebel · Post by **decibelrebel** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:44 pm

Astaroth wrote:

i also use one of these, i had the 4x4 but upgraded to a 5x5, ikea make these tidy little dvd boxes too which are perfect size for 45s and tie in well with the whole modern living aesthetic

CDs i put in plastic wallets and store in these hardshell boxes which are kinda like small filing cabinets, can condense about 150/200 CDs down into a box about 12" x 8" x 8"

tapes are on a shelf in the spare room about a foot down from the ceiling, short people bitch that they can't read the spines, i don't care its not a gallery, i know whats up there and thats all that matters!

acid · Post by **acid** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:05 am

All my vinyls are stored in IKEA crates. The only problem is that they take too much space in my small appartment. My CD's are in some IKEA billy-idol panels. I guess one day I end up listening ABBA all day in my Volvo...

Anyway, I have to confess that - chaotic as I am - I don't have plastic sleeves to protect all my records. Honestly, I don't really care either if they damage a bit... I mean, I still see them for usage, not for collecting them like stamps. But still, maybe I should pay some more care to them

sovdat · Post by **sovdat** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:11 pm

This is a home-made shelf by my father and me - the capacity is around 500, give or take few.