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ecib  ·  4405 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: What Was The Last Thing You Made?

I couldn't find a clean, spartan computer desk, so I made one.

It's just a table top made of a solid slab of pressed pine (Ikea) with 1" black plumping pipe for legs. Got a 10' stick at Home Depot and had them cut it and thread it into four parts, and secured it to the bottom of the pine with flanges, and also used flanges on the foot end for stability.

Sanded and treated the pine with tung oil to keep the natural look contrasted with the black legs (tung oil just darkens the pine slightly).

I don't have a pic of the finished product on my phone unfortunately, but here it is with the pine resting on the unsecured legs as I was trying to figure out exactly where to place them for maximum aesthetic appeal and functionality. The slab is bottom up in this pic, so those metal rails are actually not visible on the table top now. You get the idea...

If we're getting reeeeealy technical, the last thing I made was a cup of french press. It was damn good.