I felt it necessary to invoke the spirit of Bob Vila. Wait, he’s not dead? Oh good. So if I screw this up, I can always get ahold of him and ask for his help! Hooray for DIY craftsmanship!
If you’ve ever thought about making a pedal board, then you have probably seen one of the youtube videos explaining how to do so with a Gorm shelf from IKEA. As far as I can tell, the Gorm shelf is no more. It has been replaced by the Hejne shelf. The overall dimensions are comparable, but the gap between the boards is a little wider.
The Hejne shelves come in a pack of two (at least it does for the shelf dimensions I needed to accommodate all of my pedals). The advantage to the shelves coming in a pack of two is that I can now put a second tier on my pedal board by cutting one of the two shelves in half (it’s actually less than half as you can see from the picture, but you get the idea). This way, the pedals on top are not obstructed by the pedals on the bottom.
My next step will be to paint the shelf (because I said so, that’s why). Of course, it would also be a good idea to figure out what order the pedals are going to be arranged in… and figure out how best to attach the top shelf to the bottom… and of course, plan for further expansion! I could use a compressor pedal, and a volume pedal, and an eq pedal, and I’ve always wanted to have a talk box… and a tremolo pedal, and a…