Scott Winners
02-04-2020, 12:33 AM
I have been looking for a few days. All the dedicated hardware I can find for keyboard trays or keyboard drawers is clearly junk.
I had one good keyboard tray in my life. While I was in college I built a corner desk for my computer with construction lumber and 3/4" sheet. I specifically designed to have a fixed keyboard tray at a fixed height and then built another plywood box to elevate the monitor to a comfortable height above the table top. It worked good with posters thumb tacked to the wall and golf clubs leaning up against the refrigerator.
Is there a good solution? I have been looking at 100# drawer slides at Lee Valley lately... I could see maybe gluing up a panel and then attaching drawer slide hardware to the bread board ends.
This is a couple projects into the future for me but I would like to build sort of a hall table kind of thing in Craftsman style with QSWO for my home office before I build anything hardwood for the living room. For the hall table like thing I want to park my docking station and a monitor on it with comfortable space for my laptop to land and enough room to the left of the monitor for paper work easel. Top about 20 inches deep by 48" wide roughly. When I am done with it I would like to slide the keyboard tray in and have an OK looking table to put in a hallway.
I think I have figured out one way to have he front apron "appear" to be continuous grain with the drawer closed, but I want to select drawer hardware (or construction) that will last longer than me.
What has or has not worked for you? I am convinced I am wasting my time shopping at Staples-Max. Thanks.
I had one good keyboard tray in my life. While I was in college I built a corner desk for my computer with construction lumber and 3/4" sheet. I specifically designed to have a fixed keyboard tray at a fixed height and then built another plywood box to elevate the monitor to a comfortable height above the table top. It worked good with posters thumb tacked to the wall and golf clubs leaning up against the refrigerator.
Is there a good solution? I have been looking at 100# drawer slides at Lee Valley lately... I could see maybe gluing up a panel and then attaching drawer slide hardware to the bread board ends.
This is a couple projects into the future for me but I would like to build sort of a hall table kind of thing in Craftsman style with QSWO for my home office before I build anything hardwood for the living room. For the hall table like thing I want to park my docking station and a monitor on it with comfortable space for my laptop to land and enough room to the left of the monitor for paper work easel. Top about 20 inches deep by 48" wide roughly. When I am done with it I would like to slide the keyboard tray in and have an OK looking table to put in a hallway.
I think I have figured out one way to have he front apron "appear" to be continuous grain with the drawer closed, but I want to select drawer hardware (or construction) that will last longer than me.
What has or has not worked for you? I am convinced I am wasting my time shopping at Staples-Max. Thanks.