The precursors all bunched together...
I taped off a little spray paint are with some left over packing material:
The "legs" of my shelf are now spray painted a "hammered" metallic silver:
Now it's time to go the lunber store and get two more pieces of wood cut. The top shelf is actually a scrap of red oak, 60 inches long, and 11.25 inches wide. It has a little split on the end and thus only cost me $2.00! But, the lumber store put a thin band of pink spraypaint on the edge of the board to mark it as a "$2.00 scrap." So, I'm taking it back to get 1/2 inch cut off that end so I don't see any pink left over paint in the finish when it's already been sanded, stained, and lacquered. That would really piss me off.
The other cut is to create the 19.125 inch shelves that will be the base supports of my rack gear. If I were to buy rackrail it would double the cost and time of this project, neither of which I can afford at the moment. So, the 19.125 inch baseboards/shelves will keep the rack gear up and I'll use some little teeny tiny screws where the rack screws usually go to keep the racks gear fixed in position and to make sure they don't come forward...
Am leaving now, will be back later with additional details. No cocktails until 5:00 PM.
-Alex