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Yeah, I’m sycamore of it…
“If I had to design a turntable for Braun”
They would probably shit themselves laughing at that effort.
While over at ETF several people mentioned the material Paperstone, particularly as a plinth material.
https://paperstoneproducts.net/wordpress/
Indeed the turntable they were using in the main hall had a plinth made from it
as did the Fairchild turntables belonging to the Fairchild afficionado I was talking to. Or at least he’d had plinths made from it.
It seems like a sort of corian type material only made from paper & resin. Did seem pretty solid & inert. Mostly used in the US for kitchen work tops or work surfaces.
Has anyone here come across it?
I’ve not even heard of Paperstone, but it seems you can get worktops in the UK made from it.
http://www.originalwoodtops.co.uk/paperstone.html
Nice to see they borrowed JB’s cartridge adjustment hammer though.
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Weren’t Trabants made of something similar?
Meh, just another name for papier mache.
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Similar to phenolic type materials. Should be inherently well damped.
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Like panzerholz with paper replacing the plywood element I presume? Inject resin, compress, cook, cool?
Does anyone know what “high density polymer” Thomas Schick uses for his turntable plinth?
Looks expensive.
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It was at Munich, last year.
I missed it. Saw a version the year before.
Silbatone room. You must have seen/heard it, Dave.
I heard the old Gray turntable that Frank Schroeder was playing. I was only there a couple of times.
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I was in a kitchen showroom the other day and there was all sorts of new (to me) manmade work surfaces, going from HD coloured mdf type to hard stone/quartz stuff. As a fan of Corian it all looked very interesting, but expensive.
I’ve costed Panzar and it’s too much, getting roundtuit a MU25 (Beech ply) plinth for 301, it’s taking a big bag of popcorn!
I’ve been thinking about using some of this internally (Motor area) https://www.getzner.com/en/products/sylomer Sylomer is used in the Vox olympians…Along with this https://www.theplasticshop.co.uk/delrin-sheet-10mm-12mm-16mm-20mm-25mm-30mm-40mm-50mm-thick.html inside a timber frame.
Years ago I picked up a polystyrene (Internal cut outs) inside a plaster frame (Just under a foot thick on the arm side) veneered plinth - it is in many ways a the best vintage plinth I’ve heard it was also deceptively heavy!
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