Custom Plinth for a 1960's Garrard Record Player

[scott spencer]

Nice job Scott. Interesting tidbit: I have a Garrard table from the late 1940's that was my Grandparents. It came with a set of plans so the cabinetmaker could make a plinth for it. This included a template for the top cutout. My Grandmother told me she had a guy at a cabinet shop make it for her. I also have the Stromberg-Carlson Tube Amplifier and floor standing Jenson Bass Reflex loudspeaker in an Art Deco mahogany cabinet they bought with it. As a kid we would spin stacks of 45's when we visited.

I had the same task as you last year when my Thorens turntable suffered some water damage while in storage. The thread is here.

That Thorens is a beauty! (looks like a Grado cart on it?)

Ironically, I also have a Stromberg Carlson tube amp in the basement that I restored last winter. Somebody was kind enough to post it cheap on FB because they didn't want to toss it. It's an ASR-120 (10-12 watts per channel with four 6L6s.) I'm going to hook up a 2nd system using the Garrard/Marantz TT, Stromberg Carlson amp, and an older pair of Merlin 3B+ speakers I rehabbed last summer. I may build a wood frame around the Stromberg amp if I get ambitious.

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Even more ironic is that shortly after I finished up the plinth on the Garrard, my cousin from the same family gave me her grandfather's Thorens TD-124 Mk1 made in Switzerland in 1958. Too good of an offer to pass up. I'm in the middle of restoring the innerds now to get it running, and hope to build a nice custom plinth for that one as well. 2020 was a tough year in general, but a good year for audio!

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