Love the wood. I was fortunate to spend a good bit of my career in the building of complex composite structures for aerospace including foam, fiberglass, nomex and titanium cores. think hardware like the optical truss for Hubble, wings for the B2, 787 fuselage, easy stuff....nothing as important as music....My audio mentor is famous for end grain balsa core drivers in satellite grade CFrp skins. I would aim for the approach that Core audio design use in racks they build w pocket of " goop " constrained by aluminum plate. Even green glue would be effective. Wood expansion w CF is problematic, which is one reason automotive paint is so popular on CF wrapped cabinets. an affordable heavy core is marine grade coosa. Take a look at Core audio first. Cool project.
Building a custom isolation equipment rack
I’ve finally managed to get to doing something about an equipment rack for my system. Hoping to make a low level rack, with two shelves to keep it lower between the speakers. It may not be optimum, compared to having it out the side, but the idea that it is low enough to at least not be center of the sound field for imaging sakes.
I went and purchased $600 of pretty clear mesquite burl 1" boards (there will be minimal epoxy). And so I’ve already taken the saw marks off both sides, and I’m already down to 0.9inches thickness.
When I worked for Lenehan Audio in Australia, my mentor Mike made many isolation racks for equipment, laminating wood and steel plates and using springs.
I would like to incorporate the springs I purchased for that task under my two shelves. I have a weight goal for the mass loading of the springs, and I need rigidity, without adding too much more mass.
Steel was my first thought, but it would be both heavy and have a possible dielectic impact (okay so I’m possibly/probably paranoid).
I’m looking at using a honeycomb structure under the top to support it by laminating it with the mesquite, honecomb and then maybe carbon fiber?
Anyone in the forum worked with honeycomb or that sort of thing?