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Thanks Nevakonaza! Love the name, too
You have inspired me to build my own desk rather than buy one
I suppose it'll have to wait until after we move.
Awesome man! Building your own is soo worth it!
That is just incredible. Very, very good job
Thanks Aastii!
Awesome keep it up everything is coming together nicely.
Thank you FXB
Looking amazing, cant wait for it to be done, please keep updating us
Thanks IknowLITTLE! Plenty more to come
Good job mate, whats your final costs for this ?
Thanks bigfella, so far I think I have spent between 500 and 600 Canadian for the wood, stain + polyurethane, staining supplies, misc supplies, drawer slides, etc... That's a pretty approximate number though - that doesn't include all the tools I purchased that would be considered "investments" that shouldn't be included in the cost of the project.
Would you be willing to build the desk and ship it, or do some sort of Ikea type set up and just send it ready to assemble?! I'd love to buy one, what did that run you if you don't mind me asking?
Hey jgoff14, while it's really very nice of you to even inquire about purchasing something like that, it would have to require some discussion to determine the actual cost of having something like this built and shipped. So far, as mentioned above, I estimated having spent around 600 in materials alone. It weighs almost 200 pounds, and is 8 feet long - the shipping charge I am sure would be rather phenomenal. Thirdly, with the number of hours I have put into making this project work, there would be a rather hefty labour charge to make a second one!! PM me if you're still seriously interested, however!
So - I finally had some time this weekend to do a bit of work on The Ultimate Computer Desk.
Here's a little shot of the desk as it sits now. Note that the drawers aren't installed, there's clutter everywhere, the two cabinets are not lined up in any particular fashion, and of course, no hardware has yet been installed.
If you didn't notice, I finally said to myself "Ok Mr. You've been working on this desk for 8 months - time for a present". I ~finally~ ditched my old CRT monitor (Which was nice, at 1600x1200 resolution) and purchased myself a brand new 27" Asus. Sweet!
That was my first new computer component in ages!
I moved on to the next part of the project, which was installing the drawers, so I got to work. Sorry about the pictures, I think I accidentally turned the auto focus off!
Imagine my surprise when I went to go and slide the drawer in. The drawer was too wide! I accomodated for 0.25" on each side of the drawer, for the width of the drawer slides. Unfortunately, these particular drawer slides were 3/16's of an inch wider than I accounted for... Here's a wonderfully in focus shot:
So my options were:
1. Redo the drawers completely, making them a total of 6/16's (3/8's) skinnier, or
2. Shave off 3/16's" from each side, about 1.5" tall, along the length of both sides, of each of the drawers.
What a bummer! I thought oh well, it'll actually look pretty tidy with the sides shaved anyways, and also give additional support, so here goes!
Time to tape up my poor drawers. They're about to get scratched up pretty bad!
Setting up the tablesaw for some "guidelines" - 3/16's of an inch deep, set the fence at 2" and then 3.5" if I remember correctly.
And there you go, some proper guidelines for the material that will need to be removed.
This was a pretty big surprise, but not too major, and nothing that cannot be done well.