Desk / Workspace
Desk / Workspace
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- prophetone7
In the past I bought a grade A pre-sanded premium sheet of nice plywood and used the IKEA trestle legs, varathaned it - it was awesome as surface was 8'x3.5' which is HUGE.
That desk is gone but I need to re-approach this soon and going to go same route again probs but also building out other matching pieces for the room - so all using raw 3-rod heavy duty hairpin legs and double layering the plywood desktop. Kinda like this but with tighter hairpins:
Super cheap, custom, heavy duty, looks awesome.
- Thankscanoe
- https://hairpinlegs.…prophetone
- or something like this would be cool too https://hairpinlegs.…prophetone
- I've done this but using interior doors:
https://www.homedepo…Gnash - https://www.homedepo…Gnash
- Weird that it doesn't show the weight support on the hair pinscanoe
- as long as you get the 1/2” 3 rods (vs 2 rods) and if surface is thick like 2” plywood it should be able to hold a lot of weightprophetone
- But prob best to put 70lbs of 1200s + mixer one the end over the legs unless there’s like a metal support bar running the length of desk to keep it from saggingprophetone
- No need buy wood and then waste time cutting it. You can either buy a plywood house door precut / finished for about $50- or an IKEA table for the same amount.utopian
- IKEA also has a ton of cool and interesting table legs that are cheap and easy to install.utopian
- nicepedromendez
- @utopian my only 2c to tack on to what you are saying tho is I wanted an 8x3.5' desktop b/c lots of stuff, n nothing was coming close to $60 and achieving thatprophetone
- but if you just need a standard surface then yeah a solid(!!) door will work - but original request above needs to accommodate 1200s and mixer et alprophetone
- Anyway there are options - the other is cool legs but buy IKEA solid butcher block countertop sheet that's like 2" think and is super nice wood lookprophetone
- 8' wide https://www.ikea.com…prophetone
- I pretty much made the equivalent of this last weekend but with a solid mountain ash topthumb_screws