Scratch Build – In Progress Budget Desk Build Completed

Thanks guys. I have a couple of ideas on the speakers but I decided that I will not be integrating them into the desk. The desk is currently taking up valuable space in the workshop so I have to get it done ASAP. I will still work on some of the ideas I have to mod the speakers but I will only be doing that when the desk is painted and at home, which means that I will have to make the brackets/kits or whatever I will be doing, will have to be bolt on.

Hoping to get the desk completed and painted by the end of the week.

I do however have some worries around the painting. I'm not sure whether I should spray paint or if I should use sponge rollers to paint the desk. Does anyone have some experience in this? Do keep in mind that I have NEVER painted anything except a house lol.

 

So I've been quite busy but my cellphones camera stopped working. So I had to borrow my friends phone to take some pics, but it was difficult to get the pics from him lol.

So I bought a cheap reservoir...






Test fitted..



Then started to sand, that was a lot of work







Started painting the primer with a sponge roller until I could decide on how I will do the actual painting...







Then started sanding. Now this is something that I will never repeat, the amount of sanding that had to be done is ridiculous, I spent 2 hours sanding the routing around the table top, totaled 4 hours on sanding, now imagine that on 4-5 coats... That's around 20 hours, so screw that









Then came the scary part, the actual painting. I decided to spray paint it to skip all the hours of sanding, and I thought that spray painting will look much better anyways.











Now I still need to paint the top of the desk. Will leave it to dry over the weekend and I need to get some more paint on Monday. Got the powdercoating back, but they coated the legs the wrong color so I will have to send it back.

More to come, hopefully it will be final pics

 

I am happy to announce the desk build has finally come to an end

I completed the painting on the desk (will get back to that later).

I then assembled the desk at work and transported it home.

I assembled the watercooling loop and let it run for 12+ hours to make sure there are no leaks and then installed all the pc parts.

So here are the final pics...














Still need to decide on what I will do with the speakers but they are for a later date. Until then I mark the post as completed.

Comments/Criticism welcome

 

Looks nice, very clean finish. Fan grills look great in front too.

Personally I couldn't handle a desk without drawers, but to each their own

 

Looks great!

 

Lovely build mate!

 

Thats nice, like it a lot

 

Thanks guys, very much appreciated

 

I like this Very discreet but clean build, well done..!

 

Thanks guys. I should have a photo that shows the legs in detail. Will look for it, will also try to get a better camera for some nice photos

EDIT: Here's some shots when I assembled the legs at work...

 

Very nice project Zondorf, looks awesome.

 

Nicely done dude, looks sweet!

One question though. Whats that silver circle thing on the top of the red frame in the third photo of your last post?

 

Reset button

I used a stainless steel button there for reset and just above it I have a arcade machine button for the power

 

Oh cool!
Any chance of some pics of them please?