I happened to find an amazing deal on the rails - usually rails come in 2, 4, 10, 12, 16, and 18 spaces (not 8) and range in price from US$3 to US$27. Buy the plywood at the same place you get it milled, but you’ll probably want to buy all the other hardware at The Home Depot or a similar home center or mega-hardware store - they tend to have great prices since they’re bent on putting local hardware retailers out of business.įinally you can pick up the rack rails at a local Guitar Center, online at Musician’s Friend, or see if you have a local pro audio store nearby. If not, ask them to refer you to a place that does. Where do you go to get these parts? Ask your local hardware store if they provide precision milling services. (NOTE: Mega-stores like The Home Depot tend to have lower prices than smaller stores, but they usually do not have milling services.) I already had the wood stain, so I didn’t add that in to the total.
Plus now I have extra screws, dowels, wood tape, felt pads, and sandpaper left over for my next project. So, about US$5 over budget, plus tax - but I used a nice birch plywood, so if I really wanted to cut corners I could have built it all for about US$75. Set of 16-space Rack Rails (Blow-out price at Guitar Center! A little hack-sawing and I had 2 sets of 8-space rails.) I could have saved more than $30 here if I settled for a less “premium” wood!
It’s only offered at some lumber yards so be sure to ask before you buy. Milling wood is very precise and costs about US$1 per cut, plus there’s usually a set-up fee. Since I prefer to have someone to blame when something goes wrong, I had the wood milled at the place where I bought it.
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