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Vinyl Crates

This was design/build project for a professor in the School of Education at Virginia Tech I had completed between May and June 2013. She had acquired a large archive of vinyls for archiving, and I was charged with the task of creating storage for the vinyls.
The idea was to build crates that were lightweight, could stack easily, and could store a lot of vinyls without breaking or bowing. With this in mind, the material determined best for these ideals was birch plywood.
All the wood was cut to size, but due to time constraints, I couldn't secure the desired finger joinery on the crates, and instead had to use the wood glue/wood staple method. In the end, 13 crates were made between May 28th and June 12th (Memorial Day, weekends, and Fridays excluded).
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The crate is constructed of five pieces, and is wide enough to hold approximately 227 records per crate.
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