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I'll finish it myself, but there's a good chance I'd frick up actually joining the wood
Will I get good results building my own desk with a butcher block?
>butcher blocks are $212 now
I got a walnut butcher block and did this for my home office. I bought a cheap adjustable base to make it a standing desk too. Incredibly simple project. Just rub in some tung oil with a cloth.
Op I got this for under $175 shipped to use with my sit/stand desk. It's enormous at 3'x6' and I fricking love it. I did have to get threaded inserts and bolts to attach it to the base though.
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Can’t open HD link but yes generally it’s okay. Just make sure you finish it in a way that resists acidic (sweat) stains from resting your palms and arms on it. I’ve seen people use wax or whatever and they got pretty visible grey spots around the keyboard area, and coffee stains.
Also don’t screw it directly to a frame, these things can exert massive pressure when expanding/shrinking under temperature
Seems expensive to builda deck out of it
DESK
I did a 12ft maple block top for a family. Several layers of satin poly and waxed with 0000 steel wool turned out out great.
It's pretty hard to frick up joining wood bro
just dimension the wood, glue it up, use a couple dozen clamps, flatten
Also, when you join a bunch of wood together you'll sometimes want to stabilize it with steel C-channel.
The larger the pieces you use, the more it will want to warp. The C-channel will help you negotiate with the wood.
Yes. I did mine (with a drawer) out of a project panel and some metal legs. Came up pretty good.
If you haven’t joined boards together try something smaller (e.g. coffee table) first, everything needs to be completely square. Also a thicknesser is your friend
It's braindead easy and almost impossible to frick up since I did it with no experience. The only thing I would change now is probably add legs since I live in constant fear that its too much weight for the wall
it's probably fine. Just keep adding 20lb weights until you see it sag.
For reference if you installed correctly into studs each bracket will hold 20kg, so your desk is probably good for 40kg because only the closet 2 brackets are supporting the load. I would not put more than 60kg on it.
It's a kitchen counter top.
Butcher blocks are very thick slabs of wood, ends pointing up so that they can keep sanding it down after wear and tear.
they are also very heavy. need to take this into consideration when using it for a floating desk design
the ends point up because in theory, end-grain is supposed to be more absorbent to water and kill bacteria more deader.
however in practice, the joints tend to not hold up and the pieces separate over time
Butcher block is a meme, expensive joke.
They didnt use to be, it was actually cheaper to buy a butcher block than it was to make your own in just raw material.
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you need "more"?
Fairly certain I'd put a hole thru this in autistic rage at some point