I love music and have been into HI-FI stuff since my father gave me my first B&O transistor radio when I was six years old. I’ve been getting more and more into LP records and analog sound – and around May last year I purchased a “The Fisher” tube amplifier. It’s a beauty from around 1959 and it really sounds great!

The orinal wooden cabinet had been lost and only the raw amplifier exists. My DIY thinking: I’ll just build one – thats the image on top – and even if it looks ok, its skewed everywhere and it looks like – well – a plywood box around a fine piece of musical equipment.

At my girlfriends’ brothers house I saw that he had a workbench in their small cellar and I though – “ohh, they come in smaller sizes”. A couple of days later while reconsidering my cabinet, I realized that was what I needed – a workbench – and searching the local version of eBay I found a small one almost for free and I picket it up the next day.

I set it up on a shelf in our newly finished kitchen and then I started practising (I knew I wasn’t capable of doing the beautiful cabinet yet).

Youtube really is great – there are a lot of videos on how to do different stuff including woodworking. I ended up searching for “workbench” and stumpled on an incredible amount of (mostly american) videos of people building their own workbenches …

It is fascinating what the love of music and a simple set of tools can lead to – we have a lot of saw dust in our kitchen…

Getting back to the amplifier – I’ve picked up some merbau wood from the trash on a building site and I’m planning to build it sometime this year.