Have You Seen Or Owned a Spinning Record Rack Like This?

Taylor Player · May 11, 2012

I stumbled across this Mid-Century/Danish Modern record rack and had to bring it home. I can't recall ever seeing anything quite like it. Fully loaded, it holds about 550 records and actually becomes more stable.

It's a quality build and I'd love to know more about it but unfortunately there are no labels or markings of any type on it.

Have any of you seen or owned a rack like this before? If so, can you shed any light on it?

mfhale · May 11, 2012

I can't shed any light on its origin, but DANG is that thing cool! One of those beauties would go a long way toward solving my record storage conundrum.

swalke2 · May 13, 2012

#1^. Its pretty badass!

gimmieshelter31 · May 13, 2012

I've never laid eyes on one of those and can offer no insight . It looks very nice . I would of taken it home too.

Vulture · May 14, 2012

I want one, that is awesome!

EddyFranner · May 14, 2012

Excellent design, no clue of the builder.

mysteryDate · Jan 26, 2015

That looks amazing! I'm going to try to re-create it with some scrap wood I have laying around. Any chance you could send me some information OP? What would be most interesting is:
- The dimensions of the square piece on top (including thickness)
- Any information (pictures would be awesome) about the turning mechanism on the bottom. That's obviously the most difficult part.

Thanks so much for the inspiration. I will update with pics!

JohnMac · Jan 26, 2015

That is very cool. Especially loaded with blues albums. :thmbsp:

Capt Odyssea · Feb 1, 2015

Probably uses a large diameter lazy susan ring bearing, as big a diameter as possible to stop teetering. Uses bearings in a ring sandwiched between two plates.
cool item for sure,

Marantz Fan · Feb 2, 2015

I remember a rack like that from when I was a kid. You had to keep the bottom full or it wobbled. Seemed to need a larger footprint.

savatage1973 · Feb 2, 2015

Cool rack, would love to build one. I saw something similar at a flea market years ago, but it was a tabletop version (only one tier) and not anywhere nearly as nice construction as yours. Great find!!!

hjames · Feb 2, 2015

The record rack looks great - I'd have snapped it up for sure!
IKEA had an interesting gadget at one point - a shallow cabinet to hold CDs with drawers that tipped forward so you could see the side labels. Its maybe 5 drawers tall. They were originally designed to be screwed to the wall (had no back), I bolted 2 of them together back to back and mounted a lazy susan underneath. Like the record rack, once loaded, the media weight made it a lot more stable.

bhunter · Feb 2, 2015

Taylor Player said:
I stumbled across this Mid-Century/Danish Modern record rack and had to bring it home. I can't recall ever seeing anything quite like it. Fully loaded, it holds about 550 records and actually becomes more stable.

It's a quality build and I'd love to know more about it but unfortunately there are no labels or markings of any type on it.

Have any of you seen or owned a rack like this before? If so, can you shed any light on it?

Great looking design. I too would have snapped that up.

If that is solid teak, you can bet it it was/is extremely expensive. I recently bought a small 24 inch desk organizer and found it online for $575.00. Thougt it was overpriced, but then found that the bare wood alone costs ~200.00. Now that I've rediscovered my love for teak, the billfold is getting depleted.

I guess we can blame that TV show for the MCM Danish revival.

bluesky · Feb 3, 2015

cool!

FONSguy · Feb 4, 2015

Do they have one that can hold 6500 LP's?

scotterics · Feb 4, 2015

FONSguy said:
Do they have one that can hold 6500 LP's?

You'd just have to put enough tiers on it

grumpy · Feb 4, 2015

Neat rack but would rather have that Blues collection !!

vk7hch · Feb 7, 2015

About the only place you can say " That is a nice rack" and get away with it.

Taylor Player · Feb 8, 2015

I don't have the measurements and the unit has moved on to a new owner. I did shoot this video around the same time I created this thread: here's a link, hope it helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQq2DqgcWKI

mysteryDate said:
That looks amazing! I'm going to try to re-create it with some scrap wood I have laying around. Any chance you could send me some information OP? What would be most interesting is:
- The dimensions of the square piece on top (including thickness)
- Any information (pictures would be awesome) about the turning mechanism on the bottom. That's obviously the most difficult part.

Thanks so much for the inspiration. I will update with pics!

mysteryDate · Feb 9, 2015

Taylor Player said:
I don't have the measurements and the unit has moved on to a new owner. I did shoot this video around the same time I created this thread: here's a link, hope it helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQq2DqgcWKI

Awesome! Thanks. It'll be a while before I get to this project, but I think I have all the info that I need.

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