the Garrard 301 plater is concaved.

I usually use both a long and a short I just got a new bubble and was trying it out. Didn't know the Garrard plater was concave always figured it was flat seems I was wrong haha. 

more funny then anything how we can make a simple mistake and have your whole set up off with out realising it. 

everything I ready prior to my posting said it was a design feature, I was just surprised to find it in a table designed in the 50's.  The old Garrard's were better designed then I originally thought, well at least included some modern thinking. 

Of course I read quite a bit about the Garrard tables and never came across anything about the plinth being concave. really I posted this for some of us that didn't know but also as a funny post of my set up mistake, as human we all do them from time to time. If you can not laugh at your self you've had a miserable life IMO. 

I built my Garrard set up over a year. Sort of fell into a one owner 301 late grease bearing table. When the original owner lost his vision he decided to sell his table to a good friend of mine who also owns a vintage audio shop.  I walked in one day asked him about Garrard's after reading a few reviews one was Art's build, I was considering building up a table. That's when he pulled out this one owner table that he had just picked up that day. It was in very good original owner and condition, owned and maintained by a meticulous machinist.  

So I bought it on the spot, $2000 for the table. A year later I was up and running with a custom Bamboo Plinth and Jelco 750L arm. I was coming from an Oracle Delphi mk4 and the improvement in many areas was immediate. I'm Happy with the results even if its still an ongoing project, adding a new arm board for a second arm and footer system. 

They are great tables and I get why people like them, even if its a bit of work in the end its worth it.