DIY Monitor Stands - Finished!

[HCL]

These were pretty interesting - MDF bases and tops, with plastic piping filled with sand supporting them. They weigh an absolute ton, which is unsurprising with three cylinders a piece filled with the stuff. They could still do with a coat or two of paint but you only really notice it with the camera flash. I previously had the monitors on the sides of the keyboard and the sound is very different now - no doubt due to the lack of sympathetic vibrations.

Room treatment coming soon, I put a little up to tackle some troublesome comb filtering in part of my room but it's makeshift and ugly so not pictured.

 

[JeffTD]

Those look awesome - very nicely done! Going to rule with some treatment going on.

 

[RedDog]

Same thing, except higher gauge PVC pipe.

 

[C-Martin]

Nice! I like seeing DIY projects that works out. I would've still added more paint to even it out a little more, but i'm OCD about detail since i used to be a machinist lol. Did you use a primer/sealer coat first before the paint? That would've helped seal the mdf and prevent it from sucking all the paint in resulting in a more uniform coating. How did you attach the tube to the base and top?

 

[HCL]

Nice! I like seeing DIY projects that works out. I would've still added more paint to even it out a little more, but i'm OCD about detail since i used to be a machinist lol. Did you use a primer/sealer coat first before the paint? That would've helped seal the mdf and prevent it from sucking all the paint in resulting in a more uniform coating. How did you attach the tube to the base and top?

You really can't tell in person, it could do with some more paint but it's only under camera flash it becomes apparent.

 

[HOFX]

For everyone thinking about this, 3 pipes are the way to go, I just did it with one pipe and there's too much flex/movement in them for me to have confidence. I'm sure the inertia is enough. I did it with pine boards, gave a varnished wood finish.

 

[Terminus]

I went to just about every hardware big box store in my area looking for 6 inch pvc pipe so that it would be wide enough to support 8 inch monitors, no one had anything bigger than 4 inch pipe. I just ended up going with plywood for the time being but one of these days I gotta upgrade to pvc, maybe i'll try out the triple thing instead of going with one big one in the middle. Looks pretty good.