GK Design

GK Design I’m a professional mechanical design engineer with a passion for analog audio. Handmade in Seattle, Washington. Successful track record on six DARPA projects.

Specializing in highly developed electronics packaging and thermal management, transducers, mechanical design, , FEA, instrument design, structural, dynamic and thermal analysis, reliability, sensors, MEMS, hardware prototyping.

New custom turntable design, layered baltic birch ply plinth, platter, motor and bearing from an early 60s AR XA.   Tone...
06/28/2026

New custom turntable design, layered baltic birch ply plinth, platter, motor and bearing from an early 60s AR XA. Tonearm is a new Luxman LTA-710.

Designed and built a belt drive turntable.
06/13/2025

Designed and built a belt drive turntable.

Designed and built an idler drive turntable.   This is my favorite yet, and I really love the way it sounds.
05/10/2025

Designed and built an idler drive turntable. This is my favorite yet, and I really love the way it sounds.

Kuzma Stogi S clone.  Fun.
04/19/2025

Kuzma Stogi S clone. Fun.

Maple plinths in process at the woodworker's shop
04/14/2025

Maple plinths in process at the woodworker's shop

Prototyping a belt-idler turntable drive system.
04/01/2025

Prototyping a belt-idler turntable drive system.

Profile view of Rim Drive Mk1 CAD
03/25/2025

Profile view of Rim Drive Mk1 CAD

I designed and built a turntable.  This is a rim-drive model, with a motor housed in a separate 'pod'     The 'plinth' i...
03/12/2025

I designed and built a turntable. This is a rim-drive model, with a motor housed in a separate 'pod' The 'plinth' is a single beam connecting the drive system, platter, and tonearm.

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