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Building your own HiFI rack (hasn't been discussed in a while)

I need a new HiFi rack and have to compromise with a partner who wants something that looks good and matches the furniture.  I prefer to build than buy.  My idea is to build something similar in concept to https://www.hifiracks.co.uk/collections/hi-fi-racks/products/podium-xl-v  with each shelf made of Cherry butcher block to match the rest of the furniture.

My questions are:

1. Where to get spike sets to put under the legs of each stand alone shelf i.e. recessed thread set into the wood and spikes to screw into them plus locking nuts

2. We live in a 200 year old farmhouse with a suspended (uneven) solid Oak floor. I can't use spikes so was looking at what kinds of feet to put under the bottom legs: neoprene isolation pads, sorbothane, or what?

Any help, pointers, or experience would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Roger
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wqgq_641 OP
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@twoleftears I've four large gliders, thanks. 3/8" was easist size to buy metal sockets to insert into the legs

@mattmiller my previous rack was Salamander, my partner objected to it aesthetically and I wasn't all that impressed it sonically. I can certainly do better aesthetically and I'm curious to see if I can do better sonically.

@tomstruck duly noted. I showed my partner Sapele which has similar physical properties to Mahogany and is much easier to get but she rejected that as looking too similar in colour to the old Oak floor. So 1.5" think cherry butcher block it is.

wqgq_641 OP
59 posts
 
Thanks, I hadn't heard of Part Express - I've just been been looking https://www.analogueseduction.net/isolation/analogue-studio-locking-m8-floor-spikes-set-of-4.html

It is the footing for bottom legs onto the floor that concerns me most
wqgq_641 OP
59 posts
 
If any of you wish to reply with links to photos of your homemade racks or stands, I'd be curious to see them. Thanks.
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