Jwb88 wrote:...I’m probably in an extreme minority, but I think C-250s look far better in mahogany than oak. The oak grain competes with the elegance of the design, in my opinion. But age seems to be much kinder to oak finishes, and oak is more durable, so I can see why it might be preferred. Plus, tiger oak graining adds a lot of flashiness to otherwise plain cabinets. The grass is always greener, too! Lol.
You can make that a minority of at least two.
For what it's worth, I store my "real" DD collection in catalogue number order in a couple of 4-drawer office file cabinets designed for filing 8.5 X 11 documents. The drawers are just the right size for DDs, robust enough to hold the weight, and easy to pull in and out, and the records face outward for easy browsing--or, at least, it would be easy if I hadn't already filled the drawers more or less tight
. The discs are in a motley assortment of (usually tatty) original Edison sleeves, 10" generic sleeves of various sorts and colors, and in two or three cases those fancy presentation boxes that housed the original issues when they first were hitting the market (as usual for Edison paper, in pretty sad condition). The drawers in my C-250 are relegated, I'm sad to say, to storing dupes awaiting "de-accessioning" and a bunch of conventional shellac discs about which I don't really care very much. A small subset of the DD collection is on the shelf of my A-150 housed in what I now know to be the 10" storage boxes from an L-door Victrola; "wrong" historically, but the same general idea as the original Edison boxes, and, on the rare occasions when those turn up, they usually are in awful condition and go for more than the machine itself is worth.
Oh, if anyone is interested in following my example, please note: you must buy true office grade file cabinets, preferably the older, more sturdy ones that sometimes turn up at thrift or used furniture stores rather than the cheapened versions currently in office supply stores, although the latter probably would still be stout enough. The flimsy stamped steel things at places like Target will not be sufficiently stout to bear the weight of DDs, and their drawers typically don't pull out far enough to allow for retrieval of discs in the back.