What kind of a desk are you thinking abou?
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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 week agoI also planned on such, but the desk would require a metal frame, and that means either expensive aluminium profile with even more expensive bolting hardware, or welding. Learning to weld properly would take a while, and my father doesn’t wnat me to use bolts or make it anywhere “modular” to make it “very strong”.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A big desk for computer and other stuff. Don’t want those standing desks either, the mechanism would cost a fortune, and also limit my desk size.
Zink@programming.dev 1 week ago
You can build a big desk that is more than strong enough for you to stand on using nothing but basic pine from the likes of home depot and some screws or glue.
I actually just built one that’s 5 feet long and am assembling another that’s 7 feet. They will fit together to make a big L-shaped desk for a couple PCs and some other stuff. I use 3/4" plywood for the top surface.
I’m making a 3-foot long one too that’s going to be a stand for a 55 gallon aquarium. That’s about 450lbs / 200kg if completely filled.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Why couldn’t you make that with wood? I don’t think it has to be hardwood even, but sure, that’s always nice.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
An imperial like desk?
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
There’s absolutely no reason a metal frame is necessary for a desk.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
At some point I’m going to tackle designing and building a computer desk. I don’t think humanity has done it right yet.
I came up in the 90’s and 00’s when everyone had a Windows ME era Compaq set up on one of those Bush brand tube-and-panel desks that was supposedly purpose built to be a computer desk, but they STILL ended up way overcrowded because they STILL hadn’t thought about all the stuff you would have with a computer. So a subwoofer, the computer itself, both, or some other piece of equipment would end up in the foot well, cable management is a nightmare, no one in the furniture industry has ever acknowledged the existence of the UPS…
Then everyone got laptops, then everyone got phones and tablets, and then oh yeah desktop PCs are a thing, what are desktop PC gamers using for desks these days? A rectangular slab on L-shaped legs. Is the current state of the art in computer desk design. A table. Weirdly thick and heavy, and completely featureless.
It’s a challenge I want to tackle.