LPs - display/storage etc ideas

Kublakhan asked me to put together some instructions for the units I built. I've done so in Word format, but it has pictures so I can't (another computer guru might be able to) post it here. However, I will e-mail the instructions to anyone that wants them. Just e-mail me and ask for the LP storage instructions. The file is about 500k.

I built my own for the very same reason. I wanted it to look good and be very sturdy and be expandable (just in case I bought more albums--which I did but I store the overflow in another room). I used 3/4" stock aluminum bolted together and then used poplar as the shelving. If I were doing it again I would use a more exotic shelving like natural mahogany or cherry. As long as it's a good hardwood it should hold up fine. If you go to my website I added some pictures so you can see how it is constructed. This one holds about 1000 albums, but it's completely modular and can be expanded just by adding more units (the picture should help make that understandable).
http://home.mindspring.com/~rrbird/_wsn/page2.html

Thanks for the kind words. I haven't lived in California--but if your near an epicenter, maybe the Billy Bags is the right thing. As to the length of the sections that's pretty arbitrary, you can just pick whatever length of wood you want. As you can probably tell--I do a lot of reading sideways. I never really put any plans together, I just had the stock aluminum cut with spacing for 14" height between the shelves and the cross braces are 16". The wood is 10" wide. I'll see if I can come up with a rough sketch and scan it into word and send it to you--might take a couple of days before I can get to it.

As for the wife--she is a keeper. We agreed on a dedicated audio room and I can pretty much do whatever I see fit for that room. She of course has the rest of the house.