Record Crate Version 2

[Brent Dowell]

Well, a buddy who dj's with 45's asked if I could make him some record crates.

Sure thing, the only issue is that if I prebuild them, they are pretty good sized, and are expensive to ship. So I redesigned the crates to a knock down design that uses 10-24 machine screws and cross dowel bolts to hold them together.

It was a first for me as I designed it in sketchup, then imported the vectors into Vcarve to design and cut the pieces.

I also discovered that using a 1/8" up/down cut bit really helped reduce the amount of chipout on the crappy Borg ply I'm using. Yes, I could make these out of better wood, but the crappy ply is part of the charm, lol.

Had to make a number of prototypes to get the fit just right. These slide together easily, with enough friction to make them snug. I leave the tabs a little proud so I a quick sanding should make everything look nice.

So now I can make the boxes and hopefully just slip them in a flat rate box and send them off.

Now I need to work on the crate design for the LP's

Here's the design in sketchup.


I simplified the SU files and then imported them into vcarve.


The final prototype/ first production box.


Of course part of the project is to laser a logo on the from of the box.

 

[Ted Calver]

Very cool! The laser makes it even better.

 

[Bill Arnold]

^^^^^
Ditto!

Very nice, Brent!

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Now that you have the pattern nailed down, you can just sub the cutting out to a big CNC shop and have them drop ship the product. I'm thinking there are at least dozens of people who would buy these

 

[Brent Dowell]

Now that you have the pattern nailed down, you can just sub the cutting out to a big CNC shop and have them drop ship the product. I'm thinking there are at least dozens of people who would buy these

Hmmm, What does a business plan for 'dozens' look like, lol.

Hmmm, I wonder if I could sell enough to buy a bigger cnc?

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Hmmm, I wonder if I could sell enough to buy a bigger cnc?

Possibly by about the time you got done making them on your current machine?

 

[Brent Dowell]

The etsy market seems to be filled with a lot of options.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

The etsy market seems to be filled with a lot of options.

So there's apparently way more market than I thought

 

[Darren Wright]

Looks good!

I need to come up with a design to store all 20,000 of my mp3s in.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

I like the knock-down design, Brent.

Looks good!

I need to come up with a design to store all 20,000 of my mp3s in.

That's gonna be a little bitty box, lol.

 

[Brent Dowell]

You just made me go check the size of my digital music collection.

65 gigabytes so far. But I have another several gig I haven't moved into my library yet.

 

[Darren Wright]

I like the knock-down design, Brent.



That's gonna be a little bitty box, lol.

That does look a lot like the box I store the backups in, they slide in a slot on the end of that one.

 

[Darren Wright]

You just made me go check the size of my digital music collection.

65 gigabytes so far. But I have another several gig I haven't moved into my library yet.

You have me beat, mine totals about 15GB. Of course I rarely buy new ones anymore, I rent and build spotify playlists instead.

 

[Leo Voisine]

Hmmm, I wonder if I could sell enough to buy a bigger cnc?

I can say with 100% assurance that YES - you CAN make enough money to buy a bigger machine.

I did.

 

[Sharon Korn]

I haven't started to tackle the 45's yet, but I've got 8 ft of LPs to sort (probably more by now as records seem to arrive daily)

 

[Brent Dowell]

LP Sized crate design prototype. All I have to do is make the tenons on the sides a touch thicker, but it works well.

I'm really happy with the cheap new laser on my ox CNC. Used lightburn to generate the gcode file and uploaded it to cncjs.

 

[Darren Wright]

That's a nice looking crate!

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

Very cool. I like your IDC logo, too.