This desk was constructed out of a kind I made to fiberglass up a brand new bathe pan, therefore the curious form. The desk high is due to this fact an actual copy of our bathe—in case you had been curious, now you realize. The legs are from a potato tower. They’re mortised along with 1x1s, additionally from the potato tower.
The instruments used to construct this was my large noticed, a dovetail noticed, a mortising chisel, a mallet, a sq., 6 clamps, and a block aircraft.
The bathe pan was very a lot specified by the “standardized elements” method because it needed to match the size of the bathe pan precisely. All of the angles are 45 levels. It was fairly difficult to connect collectively. The plywood was then lower out a bit of bit too large kind the underside/high and planed to match.
The bathe pan (inverted) rests on a body. The body is constructed with high tenons. I clamped the legs to the pan and related the legs with high tenons in a half-assed method just by laying out the 1×1 on high of the legs, making some pencil marks are sawing to these. That is the “natural” method when items are fitted to one another one after the opposite relatively than chopping every part first and assembling every part later. On this method any errors can often be corrected within the subsequent step. After gluing the body collectively, the bathe pan was moved from the underside (the place it supported the legs) to the highest. Executed!
It’s a pleasant sturdy little desk. (The chair is from freecycle.)
What’s the purpose of this submit?
- The entire price was low—however not as little as getting a free desk on craigslist or freecycle.
- I repurposed issues I already had making the fee even decrease—no procuring was required to construct this desk.
- I’ve taught myself every part I find out about woodworking over the previous 12 months—whereas I can’t construct fairly stuff (but), I can construct relatively stable stuff. And so are you able to.
Frugal doesn’t imply not having a desk and sitting on the bottom. (I feel that’s what being minimalist means ;-P … simply kidding!) It means not shopping for a $89.95 desk on a furnishings sale at 0% curiosity for the following 36 months.
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Initially posted 2011-08-28 12:31:43.