Built some slant racks for the new studio space. Check em!

Looking good Jesse!

Thanks.

I slapped together a basic plan in Google Sketchup, but veered off course a bit while building to accommodate for some issues. Basically, I got some sheets of 4x8, 3/4" plywood. Chopped the 8 foot length into 4 x 2' x 23" rectangles. I used 1x3's for the kickplate, so those are 2.5" each and you can see how they are arranged in the pics. We drew a line from the top of the kick plate to 8" back on the top of the box to get the break angle for the slant. I used 1x2 and 1x3's glued and screwed (nail gun on the smaller boxes) as bracing for the boxes and screwed a plywood top and bottom on to match the size. The spacing between the rack rails is 19 3/8" (and that's convenient because there is a triangle on the measuring tape where you need to measure). 

This is the product that I used to stain/poly. I only put one coat. I'm in a time crunch to get up and running in the new space, so I found the easiest, quickest solution for the finish, but think the results came out pretty well.

www.homedepot.com/p/Varathane-1-qt-Ebony-Stain-and-Polyurethane-271464/203946698

I'm NOT a carpenter by any means, and I'm surprised by how well the build went. 

The big rack is 22U x 3, but I should have done 24U. I ordered some 2U rails to add to the bottom. The shorter ones are 14U, but probably should have done 12U for a better height.

Sweet: classic black, like the height and placement of your patchbay: good thinking ! 

A rack straight rack is pretty easy, a simple Kreg Pocket screw jig ($30) and Homedepot and Lowes will cut to length, Penn Elcom rails and your done!

Hey I think it was either My neighbor Brian who builds highend speaker cabinets or my old Neigboor Dana who showed me 8-10 years ago, I have been building cabinets for 39 of my 49 years !
Coolest little tool ever, hardly use my biscuit joiner anymore & I give at least one a year as an Xmas present to somebody who looks at like, gee thanks, right. A year later I always hear " best gift ever"!

Yeah but no clearance if somebody's front panel is a little wide!