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Built a new desk for my office (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
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No, it wasn't a woodworking tour de force (which wouldn't belong here), it was an Ikea desk. The perfect dull furniture.

But it's almost twice as wide as the makeshift worktable I had before, much more stable, and has a drawer pedestal on one side. My oscilloscope fits nicely on it, and there's space to actually work on projects now.

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[–] 10 points 3 months ago

No picture? 😔

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    [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Fuck yeah to desk upgrades! Ikea or not, feels good to have it done and set up I bet.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    DIY desks are awesome. Nothing like using a piece of furniture you made yourself. This is the one I made for my husband last year!

    It was my first time making an epoxy river desk/table. Made from two live edge slabs joined together. I suggest zooming in or opening the third image in a new tab to see the full resolution. My favorite part are the swirls in the epoxy river itself. What's so neat about those is that those aren't something I created. Those formed naturally. I poured two different colors of epoxy at the same time, deliberately not fully mixing them. As the epoxy cures, the heat given off by the reaction generates convection currents that swirl and whirl. When the epoxy sets, those convection cells get locked into place. So cool!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I love how that last picture doesn't have artificial lighting but rather a box standing in the back, some visible cables, a boom arm waiting to be mounted, and a great choice of headset.

    So real instead of an artificially clean room with professional lighting for the camera shot. Much appreciated.

    Did you mount this on feet for a standing desk and is that a challenge with the weight of the slab? Looks great!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Thanks! The photo is from a few months back shortly after we moved into our new place. The moving boxes are gone now, but it's still a lived in space.

    I made the top of the desk. But a standing desk that raises and lowers. The base is by a company called Uplift. They make some great desk hardware. And crucially for this project here, they sell both complete desks with tops or just the legs and underframe so you can do make stuff like this. And it can certainly handle the weight. I don't remember the exact lifting capacity of it, but I did check to make sure by doing some rough calculations of the wood's density. It is well under the rated capacity of the legs.

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    • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Speaking of woodworking tour de force (or not), !woodworking@lemmy.ca always seems to appreciate pics.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    for a moment I thought the boxes on the right where supporting the table top ... you let me down

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