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RE: Bright star sand box

I have one that was made for me and uses a piece of Corian with 5 pieces of "L" shaped aluminum about 3" long glued to the underside to keep it from moving around. With no experience with any commercial product like that, I've no way know if it was as good. Some comments in this thread have mentioned a deadening of the sound. I've moved five times in the last 16 years and just never got around to setting it back up. Just last night I pulled it out and decided to give it another go - just need to go buy some sand. I thought it was an improvement then, so I owe it to myself to try it again now (especially now that I'm trying to rid myself of unused stuff!) The fellow who made it for me used 9 hockey pucks between his sandbox and the surface it was sitting on so I did the same. FWIW, mine sat atop a Salamander Designs Archetype 5.0 rack on a slab floor. Now that I think about it, I did replace the top shelf of that rack with a 2" butcher block which is long gone so I'll have to think about that.

Tip 1 - Use a palm sander (with no sand paper on it!) on the surface of whatever support you decide on to help distribute the sand evenly in the box.

Tip 2 - Use a thin piece of foam to fit between your support shelf and the sandbox to keep the sand in - not that that was ever a problem for me.

voolston - audiophile by day, music lover by night!


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