Birds Eye Maple or Burl Wood?

[richardallred]

Originally Posted by Masterlu

I’m getting ready, 530lbs...

You can use it on your new Aida 2’s as well

R

[Masterlu]

Originally Posted by richardallred

You can use it on your new Aida 2’s as well

R

Absolutely, I’m ready!

[Masterlu]

New HRS Rack is in the House!

[jdandy]

Ivan.......Seeing that photo of the HRX crates brought back memories of when we assembled your first HRS rack in the Cape two channel room for your turntable rig. Those boxes with the handles on the ends almost look like military hardware. I remember having the same thought when we were unpacking that first HRS rack.

The HRS MXR racks are beautiful precision engineered works of art. The Burl version should look fabulous.

[Masterlu]

Dan... thanks, well you know what I will be doing this weekend.

[Masterlu]

Before I begin posting some assembly photos; some back story. As this thread was initially entitled; I was trying to decide between Birds Eye Maple and Burl Wood. I ultimately ordered them in Burl Wood approx. 8 weeks ago.

Mike Latvis; CEO/owner of HRS has worked very closely with me on this Rack. The MXR exotic wood racks are being phased out forever; less than 3 remain for the entire World. The only reason for this, is that Mike being an extreme perfectionist would only buy the choicest cuts of wood for these racks. As time goes on, many of these woods are now either too expensive to find, or unavailable now altogether.

So, that brings me to my Rack. The Burl wood is obtained from the root of the tree, as such it is incredibly difficult to finish especially to Mike's exacting standards. One side of my Burl wood rack kept "pulling" the finish coat into the wood (not uncommon for Burl wood). After some 65 additional man hours, Mike finally reached out to me and said that this would not pass his final inspection, and would ultimately meet fate with a band saw

I tried, and really wanted to get the Burl; but ultimately Mike convinced me when this starts to occur, it would only get worse. After some time; I was then open to his new suggestion.

He had a very special Honduran Mahoghany set that has been curing for a little over two years, and flawless. Once I saw some photos, I knew this was the right direction to go in.

The photos that I am going to post now are just iPhone pics, and in no way reveal the true beauty of this Mahoghany wood. It actually has a slight shimmer in the wood, maybe magic dust.

[Masterlu]

The HRS MXR Rack finally arrived upstairs in the room it will reside; all 530 lbs of it.



The packaging itself is a thing of beauty.



One side panel finally sees the light of day.



The Rack with it's cross braces installed and upright.

[Masterlu]

Here is another angle.



Taken with a flash to reveal the beautiful grain.



Yet another from the side.



Finally, one from looking down.

[audioguy3107]

Ivan - I love the look on the delivery guy's face.......looks like he's thinking......."Jeez, you've gotta be kidding me, we bring a lot of crazy heavy stuff to this guy's house!!"

- Buck

[Masterlu]

I will follow up when I install the shelves, get the Rack in final position, and use a real camera.