Diy pc desk

[luke.peter88]

Hi all.

Not really a pc mod, but I was looking for a desk that suited my height (6'4") and space requirement, and that allowed my pc chair's arms to fit underneath it... Nothing really presented as acceptable, and everything was so expensive.

So I took to diy... I have negligible experience wood working, so it was something of a garage experiment.

Got a slab of Pecan from the local nursary

Planed (router plane and hand plane) and sanded, filled cracks (bottom with aluminium cold cast epoxy, top with clear). It was 75mm thick originally, 50mm final thickness.

Legs fabricated out of 76x76mm square tube with 80x6mm flat bar tops, threaded inserts to attach them to the top. M10 adjustable feet for leveling as the top warps from humidity fluctuation.

Finished with 4 coats of acrylic glaze (doesn't discolour the wood) and a 600grit light finishing sand.

Going to set it up today (its hefty and requires additional grown men to move).

My dear wife rejected my ideas of rgb inserts and wireless charger inlays, apparently that doesn't belong in a grownups furniture[emoji58].

Happy with how it has turned out, final dimensions are 700x1900mm 800mm high.

If you made it through this wall of stuff, thanks for looking[emoji846]

 

[SILTECH786]

@Miz3r 😁 would appreciate this craftsmanship

 

[Deadrange]

Really nice man and never let anyone tell You NO for RGB just do it man

 

[DannyBoyOPC]

Looks very nice.. well done

 

[luke.peter88]

And done...

Now to tidy the rat nest, and sorted.

Thanks for all the external validation[emoji846]

 

[McLOVIN1]

Looks good

 

[storms1]

Superb Well done

 

[Miz3r]

@Miz3r [emoji16] would appreciate this craftsmanship

That's is really impressive.

I would of made a trench in that wood then done like a resin colour theme inside.

But very cool none the less

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[luke.peter88]

That's is really impressive.

I would of made a trench in that wood then done like a resin colour theme inside.

But very cool none the less

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Wife also spoke out against epoxy river and cast concrete as embellishments... So we compromised and I got a nice normal slab table [emoji846] a black tinted river desk with cracks aluminium filled would have been my ideal scenario, just 3 times as expensive as the woodcast epoxy is costly.

 

[Salee]

Lit set-up

 

[Off-The-Chart]

my brother and I soooo want to do something with resin/epoxy

just not sure what to go with that is locally available

have seen some fiberglass epoxy at Builders, but that's about it

 

[luke.peter88]

Amt composites.