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Desk Shelves.
S. Heslop:
I'm forever fighting a losing battle with desk clutter. I cleared my desk surface about 4 days ago to prepare it for when these shelves are finished, and it's immediately back to a giant pile of junk.
These shelves are intended to give me some more areas to store the junk and hopefully keep the surface of my desk clear, as well as give me somewhere to put all my electronics stuff. They're something i've wanted to build for a long while.
I barely have the space to fuss with these full 8'x4' boards. Had to get help lifting the 18mm board onto the bench and crawl through that gap to get back out of the garage. I didn't bother video taping this project since I had enough of a job just wrestling with the boards.
My tablesaw can only make cuts about 280mm wide, which was unfortunately too wide for most of the cuts required so I had to do them with a handheld circular saw. I'm going to try extending the tablesaw out a bit in the near future.
Rough cut on a bandsaw and then sanded to the line with the spindle sander. Not the ideal tool really, the curve ended up ever so slightly wavy and i'm hoping edgebanding will smooth it out.
I then cut the rest to size with the router table. First time using a flush cutting bit, and it did a great job.
That's all the sides to size.
Now all I need to do is drill holes for the dowels and apply the edge-banding. Unfortunately i've got no idea what the veneer on this plywood is, so I cant just order the edgebanding online. Might be a while till I can get to a place.
Brass_Machine:
Looks like you are off to a good start. Why not add drawers to the desk as well since you are at?
Eric
Arbalist:
Some interesting design details there. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with this.
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: Brass_Machine on October 22, 2014, 10:17:04 AM ---Looks like you are off to a good start. Why not add drawers to the desk as well since you are at?
Eric
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I've been considering adding a shelf/ drawer underneath to carry a midi keyboard on, but it's a fairly low desk and there's not enough space to also fit my legs. The solution might be some kind of drawer I could push really far back up against the wall, but then the desk's legs get in the way.
--- Quote from: Arbalist on October 22, 2014, 11:08:01 AM ---Some interesting design details there. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with this.
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I should've said in the OP but the plan is to have it narrow at the bottom so it isn't ridiculously deep and taking up alot of the desk surface, but wide enough at the top to accommodate an oscilloscope. It'll be screwed to the bench to hopefully prevent it from tipping forwards. The curved sides support the top shelf from sagging (hopefully!).
The scope I picked up at a boot sale was so long that I had to widen the design (i'd made the plans months ago), but even after doing that i'd forgot to accommodate the extra depth of the plug that fits into the back of the scope, but the top shelf was already getting ridiculously wide so there's a goofy little extension on the top shelf.
AussieJimG:
You would be welcome at my place any time to add some organisation to the junk heap.
I will even provide the beer and the pie and peas (or cod and chips if you prefer)
Jim
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