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thnx both of u

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well, been the the workshop today with my sketch and the guy is happy with my design and is going to quote me a price and build it for me

hopefully the price wont come out too high but fuck it lol

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Last edited by Spoonz on Jun-26-2007 at 15:34

finally the guy foned back with a price for my desk... £220 GBP in standard MDF or £370 with the oak veneer - not sure if it's worth the extra £150 GBP so probly going to go with the cheapest option! just paint it black and maybe a piece of toughened glass to embed into the top surface area to add a bit of extra style hehe

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Originally posted by Spoonz finally the guy foned back with a price for my desk... £220 GBP in standard MDF or £370 with the oak veneer - not sure if it's worth the extra £150 GBP so probly going to go with the cheapest option! just paint it black and maybe a piece of toughened glass to embed into the top surface area to add a bit of extra style hehe

Sweet deal man. Just be careful with what type of paint you use.

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yea, i kinda thought i would need something kind of "specialist" ?

so i googled it and will probs buy:

http://www.ronseal.co.uk/products/product.jsp?id=7

cost about £10-20 GBP for the amount i need

no need to primer and dries pretty quickly compared to other products i looked at!

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Originally posted by Spoonz http://www.ronseal.co.uk/products/product.jsp?id=7

Yeah man, that looks perfect. This thing is going to come out pretty sweet for ya.

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Originally posted by DJChrisB Yeah man, that looks perfect. This thing is going to come out pretty sweet for ya.

hehe i hope so!

the tune Audioslave - Paint It Black springs to mind

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Originally posted by Spoonz hehe i hope so! the tune Audioslave - Paint It Black springs to mind

lol Hardcore.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

hahaha

my plans keep changing so fucking much! i have now built my upper shelf which is going to be permanently detatched from the main desk lol...

i now need to by a couple more sheets of MDf to build the main desk while in the meantime i just use my current/soon to be old desk lol

getting there tho

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Are you building the entire thing yourself, or is that workshop building it for you?

If you're building it I might suggest a few things, and forgive me if you've thought of them already...

Make sure you put a sturdy back panel on your desk. This will triangulate it perfectly and prevent it from parallelogramming over to the side. In my experience, wood screws can rip out of MDF fairly easily when exposed to certain stresses. Sheer is fine, and tension is okay, but when a joint gets tweaked out of 90* it all goes to pot. I recommend some strips of real wood (1"x1" or 2.5cm x 2.5cm) to go in the corners on the underside of your shelves. Screw THROUGH the MDF into this wood and you'll get a great bite.

For that top shelf, if you want to avoid the middle post, span the edge on the front and rear with some angle iron. That'll be enough to prevent bowing and give you more flexibility on what to place underneath it.

Good luck with your desk, and don't forget speaker stands!

thanks for the info mate. at this stage it's going to b me building the desk.

i have built my upper section used a sheet of mdf and attached it to 4 steel table legs. for now i just have to pieces of mdf near the middle of it which are supporting the centre - seems to be quite sturdy too

just the lower sections to build now

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