Wood for arm boards for TD 124

awl1 · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject: Wood for arm boards for TD 124

Can anyone suggest a source of suitable wood for making up arm board(s) for a TD124? I'm thinking beech, birch, and anything else which may be recommended. It needs to be 12mm thick and I can't think of anywhere or find anywhere to source the wood. I'm in London SW2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Andrew

bliss53 · member Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 20 Location: NH

I have made td124 armboards from mdf, birch, maple, cherry, dalmatian, and chipboard. I can not hear the difference on any of them. It is also possible that my system does not recognize any difference that may exist. Find a woodworker or wood working shop and they can plane, shape and drill the board for you from your original or a tracing of the turntable chassis. There are also some reasonably priced boards on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Thorens-TD.....4ceabcbf26

awl1 · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:01 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the link and interesting to hear your experience. I'd like to make one or two up myself but tracking down a source of wood is proving difficult. Anyone any recommendations or leads?

delcam1n0 · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject: TD 124

Hi Awl,

Most larger DIY stores (we have at least 3 here in
this small town of 43.000) are normally able to cut wood
to required approx. size. I got some teak offcuts (used
for outside furniture) and handshaped the rounded corners
for my TD124 with lots of TLC, rasps, files, drills and plenty
finegritted sandpaper...

Sure there are also some DIY emporiums
around Londinium that could help you out??
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markse · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject:

Hi Awl,
Whitten Timber in Peckham can plane wood to thickness and they have a selection of hard and softwoods.
Mark

awl1 · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks Mark, that looks like a good lead - I'll give them a try. Andrew

RETRODISKO · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:54 am Post subject:

Any woodworker can for sure use a leftovr of a good quality and preety good looking Wood to make one, be shure it matches with the colour of the rest of the TT..
ill look great !
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