Thanks SslagleZ28 - I'm wondering if there are any techniques to break up the circle pattern, maybe a bit of.. brown crayon smudged strategically or something.. I dunno, we'll see.if you go over them again, and maybe a 3rd time and get them filled really well and sand them down you wont notice them all that much... but you will notice if you look at it. thing is the holes are a perfect circle and perfect circles dont exactly exist in wood so they eye is going to naturally pick it up :/
Thanks for the encouragement, Jet! Just an fyi, none of the fans will be exposed, or even be considered "in front". Maybe it's just not presented very well in my diagrams, but you'll see once I start putting together the cabinets The idea of using directors is a very good idea - I'd like to implement something like that, maybe when I'm working on the cable management.amazing build log--CF needs more of these!
On the fan locations--you might want to try and keep the fans off the front to reduce the sound levels--maybe you can use some sort of director to make sure the airflow goes over the components where it needs to, and then you can have intake in the side near the front, and exhaust on the side near the back. Just a thought.
Keep it up!
Thanks Nevakonaza - the workshop is a dream to work in, total coincidence that it became available just as I was finishing the plans for the desk!!Simply amazing,Wish i could build something like that...looks like you have a great workshop too.
Thanks Rocko, glad you have you on boardI love following things like this. Keep the pictures coming! :good:
Hehe, that was my reaction too! How cool is that? Props to Crucial lolDUDE!!!! They freakin sponsor you!?!?!?
Haha, thanks nathan32111you are awesome
good luck:good:
TONS of it.has anyone used darker wood filler than the natural wood, when staining dark with good effect?
Finding a filler that matches good enough by sample can be non existent and almost always is. So it's almost always winds up being - pick the filler that stains close to-but a little lighter than - the desired color. It seems to be lighter in this case. This makes it easy to darken the areas with the same stain or anything you can find,other stain-paint-tints that have the desired basic color in them, and an artist brush. As long as the base(water/solvent) is the same you can intermix to get the color close. Use dilution to get the desired transparency.I'm wondering if there are any techniques to break up the circle pattern, maybe a bit of.. brown crayon smudged strategically or something.. I dunno, we'll see.
Hehe, seriously, what was I thinking. You know what? Scrap this whole project. Sorry folks, gotta start oververy nice design, in all honesty though you should have 4 monitors. Not sure how anyone can work off just 3 monitors nowadays.
Wow, thanks for all the information Benny Boy - sounds like I have my work cut out for me. Thankfully, the only place I really need to mess around with screw holes are the drawers. I do still have to concern myself with how the wood filler turns out on the desk surface, since I've used some to fill in the small cracks between the desk and trim...TONS of it.
Any wood filler(or wood dough)brand, and any color name within those brands, need to be sampled to see how well it stains to the desierd color. The only way to do that is to have the stain and the wood and the filler. Put the filler colors you think might be close on the wood, sand it and stain it. Make sure everything is sanded with the same grit sandpaper because diff grits will produce diff colors using the same stain.
Not very often will a filler color be found that will match perfectly because of the types of wood and types of stains. All three.-wood/filler/stain- together, will determine what the filler will look like when stained, not the filler color name. Getting a few and sampling each is the only way, really, way to go. The undesireables can be returned.
Finding a filler that matches good enough by sample can be non existent and almost always is. So it's almost always winds up being - pick the filler that stains close to-but a little lighter than - the desired color. It seems to be lighter in this case. This makes it easy to darken the areas with the same stain or anything you can find,other stain-paint-tints that have the desired basic color in them, and an artist brush. As long as the base(water/solvent) is the same you can intermix to get the color close. Use dilution to get the desired transparency.
If it's raw stain(no sealer on it yet), stay inside the lines w/ your brush. If it's raw but you're Dr'ing where the glue/sawdust is, it won't soak in so put a bit of clear in the material so the next brushed clear won't move the color around.
If the spots are too dark, it can be very involved to fix. That's why the samples and making sure it's at least lighter is very important. Lightening when its darker takes some experimentation. If this is the case using yellow paint or tint,-the stain-other tint colors-or even any paint/other stain you may have around that has the basic needed color in it<--or some combo of those, will help. It's the yellow that will lighten using this simpler method.
If the surface has been sealed, hand sand everything first, and again use a small amount of the clear in your touch-up material to keep the the color from moving around when you brush on the next coat.
I know by looking at the shallow hole in the pic above that the filler was sanded before it was all the way dry. As Z28 said will flush it up. :good:
I'm currently building a Loft bed with a desk underneath. It's pretty awesome, And it clears up tons of space.
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That is super cool Green dog252, it looks like a real nice and sturdy piece. That's an awesome outdoor bedroom too!!I'm currently building a Loft bed with a desk underneath. It's pretty awesome, And it clears up tons of space.
Well - start planning! Snap some pics and keep us in the loop!^I feel I should go that route, as my desk isn't big enough.
Old pic, but basically the same desk space.
Oh I could see that - maybe you could build in an escalator or something lolI built my own loft bed too! They're great on saving space but they're such a pain to move and the constant up and down every night was getting burdensome. Do enjoy (but the novelty wears off quickly, as I'm just using a regular bed now).
That would be so freaking awesome to have a barn to do woodworking in. I know what you mean though - I actually live in an apartment pretty much, and it takes me around an hour to get to the wood shop, so as much as it is really awesome to be able to use it, it's nowhere close to convenient.....sigh.... all the carpenters here.
I'll be moving soon, so.. I hope the new place will have a barn to work in so I can make my own desk....