I had fun hanging out at record stores back in the 1980s. My favorite local Atlanta store was Turtle's Records & Tapes. They had a "Now Playing" rack on the wall where they would display the album cover of a record while it was playing in the store. I thought it would be fun to make one that I can use when playing my records. Check out my video of this project below.
I used the Inventables free EASEL online software to design the project. The project consists of a backboard with an engraved logo, and a separate "Now Playing" piece cut from 1/2" Baltic birch plywood. Click here to open my EASEL project to see how it's designed.
I found the Turtle's logo on Google Images. Luckily, I was able to also find the matching font called Keep On Truckin' that I was able to use to type the "Now Playing" text. The text at the top is engraved with an 1/8" straight bit at a depth of 0.05". The X-Carve also drilled matching holes for me, so that I could attach the "Now Playing" cutout using two 2.5" long pieces of 1/4" dowel rod.
This display rack will get a lot of use when I play my vinyl records. I love the colors and it brings back some great memories of hanging out in the record stores. Thanks for checking out this project!
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