Painting the cabinets for the synth - assemble them tonight, put another coat of paint on the outside surfaces late tonight.
This is the top of the cabinet. I will be facing the edges with stained oak molding. The sheet is Medium Density Overlay - wonderful stuff to work with. Dead smooth surface - it was originally developed for sign painting but is now used everywhere.
By a stroke of Murphy's Law the two stacks of the synthesizer are about 4'2" each - this eliminates using a standard 4' x 8' sheet. Fortunately, there is a Windsor Plywood in town and they were happy to get a couple sheets of 4' x 10' MDO for me.
The base of the cabinet will be five 19" electronics racks - killing two birds with one stone. I had originally planned to move my equipment racks into the storage closet in the music room but I put up regular wire shelving and will use the cabinets for the music stuff - makes much better sense.
These are some of the pieces of MDO that will support the racks - I am using a 12U rack rails so these are 22" high (the rails are 21" long but I am allowing 0.5" on each side for airflow).
Coming together nicely...
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