I have been working on a 'kitchen phone array' which will serve dual duty as a means of display and a working array of telephones. I had originally intended on installing a switch so I could select which telephone was live at any given time, and posted about that here (http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=15471). dsk suggested I wire all the phones up live with the ringers connected to the 3rd wire and use a switch to select just the ringer. For now, to get the project moving, I have gone with that suggestion partially. I grounded the ringers in all of the phones and have all the phones wired live via station wire on the back of the board through a terminal strip. The ground wire is jumpered to L1 on the strip and I only connected the yellow from one phone to it. So I can dial out or take calls on any of the phones but only 1 will ring. I will worry about switch selective ringing later.
The layout is already on it's 2nd revision. I originally had an AE90 on the left side of the board, but a couple of weeks ago I picked up a Uniphone #2 so naturally I wanted that on display. That gave me room to put my G1 on there as well. The photo below shows the current layout, with space in the bottom left for a 684BX subset to complete the G1.
The 2nd photo is a side view of the top of the board to show how it's mounted. I used a door stop molding to make a french cleat. Thanks to WesternElectricBen for the french cleat idea (from his post here (http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=11158.msg130466#msg130466)). The half that is attached to the wall is wider than the board so that it could be securely screwed into 3 wall studs. There was about 3" of the molding left over, and I cut that in half to make 2 feet to screw onto the wall side of the the bottom corners. I can just lift the whole thing off the wall to work on it.
Good plywood is expensive so I used a leftover piece from another project which had been outside for a while. I intend to paint it when I am finished and am hoping that the paint will cover the stains on the wood. If not I may just call this a prototype. I am also thinking about improving on the cleats. If I had a 45 degree dovetail router bit, I could probably make some from scratch on my router table but for now the stop molding cleats seem to be plenty strong.
L-R, NE Uniphone #2, NE G1, AE50, NE 352, NE 554. The 554 is equipped with a shoulder rest and extra long curly cord so will be the phone of choice for taking calls while cooking. ;D