Damn man, that sounds awesome! You’d probably get a lot of love if you posted up some pics and a short tutorial or summary like you just did. That kind of DIY stand sounds great.
A little off topic: Another added problem with picking out stands is that I’m unfortunately using a desktop style external harddrive for my music currently and need room to stand it up or put it somewhere safe (was DJing a party a few weeks ago and was really drunk with several people crowded around me when someone kicked it over and now the power base is all messed up). I really worry about losing 2TB of data so I might have to invest in a more portable 500GB external soon. Also wish I had USB 3.0 on my laptop because it takes forever and a day to load the contents of larger folders on an external harddrive.