My best ever vinyl IKEA hack!

Thanks to my renewed interest in vinyl I have been buying quite a bit in the past couple of years and the result was running out of shelf space and vinyl lying around on the floor - not ideal!

So I started examining some specialist and often expensive vinyl racks as I was especially keen to have a section for frequently played stuff on top displayed like a shop for browsing…

Anyway, after a bit of IKEA hacking I think I have developed the perfect solution!!!

All our old IKEA racks and bookcases were in birch and beech, neither of which IKEA make anymore, so I have chosen whitened oak which seems to blend in quite well. I may consider a wood stain if I decide it’s not close enough.

I thought this might be of use to other Ikea Kallax fans!

JonathanG

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Good idea! I stuck with standard kallax’s which works but is also kind of boring, I like your idea.

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In Sweden, old soft drink trays are probably the most common storage for vinyl, just to spray paint :innocent:

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Not so sure about that though :smile:

Maybe not today but I’m pretty sure that a majority of Swedish men 60+ have or have had such trays for vinyl, it was an obvious way to store vinyl during the vinyl era.:innocent:

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Very smart! Could you share some more details please? Thanks!

Hi Max, it’s a Kallax 4 section unit and a Kallax 2 section unit which has had half it’s depth cut by a local joinery saw. It’s tricky to fix the 2 section unit to the top of the 4 section unit as much of the Kallax isn’t chipboard but is filled with cardboard. I was going to use flat brackets on the side and back but tried wood glue and clamped it overnight and it seems ok.

Hope that helps. Total cost about £75 and I think that it’s pretty nice for that and way cheaper than any alternative option.

JonathanG

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Hi Jonathan,
thanks, it’s really nice and I will study it a little.

Max

Are you reviewing the Avid tt ? Volvere Sequel maybe ?

Avid ACUTUS Black Iron!!! Good spot :grin:

J

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I am waiting the review on Soundstage ! I hope you will say if you find it better or different vs the SME 60 you reviewed too, if i remember well.
@Richard.Dane heard the Acutus one day, and found it uninvolving. But it was many years ago.

Thanks French Rooster, well I can’t say I am finding it uninvolving but it is different to the SME, albeit it has many of the same qualities - huge bandwidth, inky black backgrounds and heavy engineering etc.

I don’t have a publication date yet but expect to submit it this month so Jan/Feb I would guess.

Brg,

JonathanG

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Thanks Jonathan. I will read of course.

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