Scratch Build – Complete ⭐ Mahogany Desk by Husky Bongs [Build of the Year 2018, FINISHED]

Take it easy with the ebony. It's probably poached.
The stain job came out fantastic.

 

Oh I'm not messing with ebony lol, glad you liked the staining. It was a ridiculously work intensive process to make it come out that way. More pictures coming really soon

 

Was time for a new video so enjoy and give feedback

 

Kudos my friend you are a true master woodsman , a work of art. Cant wait for your next update.

 

Much appreciated, thank you

 

The headphone dac youre gonna use is that both a dac+amp? or do you intend to use one of each? (sorry for an offtopic question)

 

It's

It's both an AMP and a DAC. I'm actually making a headphone stand as well in theme with the build which you will see very soon. As is tradition it is also somewhat overbuilt

 

Sounds promising, do you have a link for that amp/dac?

 

https://www.jdslabs.com/products/48/objective2-odac-combo-revb/

I got the same one but from Mayflower Electronics. I absolutely love it and it was small enough to trow into the computertable.

 

Well hello again

I'll start off with some pictures of the table after the varnishing (yet to get nanowax treatment) and if you scroll further down you'll see some of the cablework.



nevermind the dust It will dissapear










Now onto the cablework. Thanks again to ICEMODZ for chipping in and helping me out on this!

First things first I had to get everything out. My living room once again is a mess



Just did a bunch of y-splitters for these cables and I run them on 2 different knobs on the fan controller



Might be a tip for anyone new to this to grab one of these so you make sure you get it right without blowing any components up



Then I proceeded to hide pretty much every fan cable in the actual frame.


Sneaky sneaky cable management



Had to heatshrink all the y-splitters





The 360 radiator fans did get sleeved however because they will be somewhat visible



Testrunning everything. Worked



This is just a temporary solution because everything will keep going in and out



For those wondering the fan cables from the back radiators (the 560 monstahs) will be run underneath the side fans and completely hidden



My first sleeved cable this one will run the fan controller



And this is what comes out after the wood comes back down



And after this I'll get onto more cable work. Until next time

 

The desk makes your hardwood flooring look bad.

 

Suppose I need to redo the flooring then

 

Well happy halloween, I dressed up as usual to my "homeless elf" costume and did some cablework This is pretty time consuming stuff I'm learning as I go but after 2 attempts on my harddrive cable this is what I ended up with





And by some miracle it worked

 

Going off the rails here a little bit but I wanted something that suited the table where I could rest my headphones when I'm not using them so I made a custom headphone stand.

Plasmacut some stainless 4mm thick circular plates and lathed and treaded some 30 mm stainless shaftsteel. Then proceeded to make some holes and this is what the mounting device looks like.

And yeah It will get the same Birch style wood with 12 layers of varnish That being said I sent the wood off for some final treatment so it doesn't get scratched by the heavy use. So you will see it all together on friday evening but heres the metal at least



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Here's the finished headphone stand. It became a little bit overbuilt but I like it. Got 10 or 11 layers of varnish cant remember..

Pictures



















Soon I got a complete office

 

An appropriate stand for an iconic set of cans Works and looks perfect with the Desk too! is there nothing you cant make look amazing!

 

Awesome. Now to find a stud in the wall, because there's no way drywall will hold that up.

 

My house is built of stone and mortar