diy wooden turntable and phy-hp replica unipivot tonearm

[m.corleone]

Hello. I am a new member of this forum, I have only been reading this sometimes. Here is video of my diy turntable and tonearm. And my system alltogether.
YouTube - my diy turntable and ocellia speakers mpeg2video

[m.corleone]

Maybe I should tell little bit about my projects. I started to think about building a turntable of my own about two yars ago.I saw teres audios wooden turntables, and was inspired. I had thorens td 320 turntable and I started by making a platter out of wood to it. Sound got better and then I made a complete turntable out of plywood, using parts of thorens(bearing, subplatter and motor). After that I made platter out of mahogany and the plinth out of plywood. I made the bearing myself.

My goal was to make my own unipivot tonearm, and then I saw phy-hp:s Salaberts tonearm, and decided to try to make my own. I got It done, and It sounds good!

I have new projects in my head all the time, and I will put some pictures here when I start to build something new.

[planet10]

Nice looking TT... the youtube video i suspect does not do it justice. Can you post some stills?

dave

[m.corleone]

Thank You.Here are few pictures.



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[planet10]

That is a beauty. What kind of wood?

dave

[m.corleone]

The platter is made out of mahogany, and oiled with uncoloured wood oil. The Plinth was made out of plywood(30mm thick) and oiled with dark wood oil.

[c2cthomas]

Hello m. corleone - and Welcome to diyAudio!!!

Nice - Nice - Nice!!! Congratulations

[planet10]

Thanx

[makaiyumtony]

Originally Posted by m.corleone

Thank You.Here are few pictures.



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nice job, how about the motor ? AC or DC, I give you my idea is to use a old direct drive tt as the motor, and use a really very thin elastic thread (from clothing material supply) for the belt. the only thing you have to do is turn both by hand first and power on, ratio almost 1:1 very quite and smooth, and the bearing of a direct drive platter is much better than any other power motor, keep going and good luck also happy new year
regard Tony KY Ma

[makaiyumtony]

Originally Posted by makaiyumtony

nice job, how about the motor ? AC or DC, I give you my idea is to use a old direct drive tt as the motor, and use a really very thin elastic thread (from clothing material supply) for the belt. the only thing you have to do is turn both by hand first and power on, ratio almost 1:1 very quite and smooth, and the bearing of a direct drive platter is much better than any other power motor, keep going and good luck also happy new year
regard Tony KY Ma

oh sorry I forgot the pictures