DIY DVD rack designs (1 Viewer)

[BryanZ]

I was curious to see if any of you have built your own dvd rack/cabinet. I am interested in building one and would love to see either the pictures or designs others have used.

 

[Bob Nowaskey]

I made an oak CD rack a couple of years ago. All 1x oak except for the back (1/4" oak plywood. The rack is 68" tall and 25 1/2 " wide. The shelves are 1x6, the sides are 1x8, the top is 1x10 and the bottom is 1x12. It cost about $125.00 in materials and about a weekend to build stain and finish. I could e-mail you a couple of pictures.

 

[Chris Hovanic]

My Built-in Rack

I have built in shelves on either side of my TV that I modified to hold my DVD's and CD's. The link above has pictures and short descriptions for each picture.

My whole HT Pics can be found here.

Hope it helps some.

 

[TonyGricar]

i'm not building a rack as such, but am building a couple of drawers with dvd holders. the reason i mention this is that Rockler (rockler .com) sells dvd holder strips in 6' lengths. they can be used in either a vertical or horizontal application.

tony

 

[BryanZ]

Thanks for your help!

 

[keoni]

I built my own. wish I had pics for it. It is 72 inches tall and just deep enough for a standard DVD case. The sides, top/bottom, are made out of 3/4 inch oak plywood which I glued together to make an 1 1/2 inch thick outer frame. The shelves are made out of 1 inch oak. The top and bottom where biscuited, glued and screwed with large 3 inch screws. The shelves where dato jointed for strength, glued and screwed to the frame. I applied wood filler for drill holes and sanded clean until all edges where flush.

Before I applied the backer board I applied the stain. The reason I did this was to avoid stain buildup in the creases which would be hard to reach. I used waterbased minwax "honey gold"?? which gave the shelving a beautiful golden appearance that worked really good with the grain. After that I stained the 1/4 oak backerboard and allowed it to dry. (if your going to finish with a poly I would do it here too) After applying the poly I inset the backer board into the shelf itself and predrilled and screwed 1/4 inch oak faced plywood, this made it as solid as a rock. The front has flush oak lips so that the DVDs will not fall out should it be bumped.

For the trim going around the front of the rack I used 1 inch oak stock which I routed both edges to make it look nice. I also routed out a groove in the middle of the trim and inlayed a strip of walnut around the entire case. In each corner connecting the inlayed trim I have an Oak rossette. It holds about 250 DVDs and I have about 150 in it right now, looks great. I also used the same stain with my audio cabinet and my window trim. Looks great.

 

[Allen Ross]

i would hope it would be solid as a rock with 1.5" oak plywood

 

[Kevin Golding]

I've made two flexy media racks, and the second one turned out really nice. 6' long 5/8" threaded rods with 5/8" MDF shelves. I used a 5/16" roundover bit on each side of the shelves to make a bullnose on the front and sides. The bottom has three pieces glued together for stability and two pieces at the top to hide the top nut. I cut pieces of 1-1/4" PVC pipe at 8-1/8" long to use between the shelves to hide the all-thread. I had to Dremel the PVC each end to increase the I.D. to clear the nuts. Everything is painted with black Hammerite spray paint.



A close-up of the bullnose edges and PVC:


You can't see it well in the pictures, but I put a strip of MDF between the two back posts as a backstop on each shelf.

 

[Dave Poehlman]

Mine is a pretty basic design. I haven't worked out any of the dimensions yet... but, here's a drawing:



I'm waiting for the weather to warm up a little before I start cutting.

I had originally intended to build a subwoofer/DVD rack but, I'm glad I didn't... I have my Indiana Jones box set is sitting on top of my sub now and the DVD's slowly work themselves out of the box when watching a movie.

 

[Arthur_King]

Well, you could always angle the shelves say, 8-15 degrees towards the back, of course, I cant speak of dvds working their way out of sleeves and such, but the CLICK IN dvd cases (98% of them) would hold DVDs in any kind of vibration, and the cases wouldn't come jumpin out of the shelves when angled.

Daffy Arthur King