frank shic
10-11-2007, 12:21 AM
my wife recently got a full-time job working from home and required a new working desk. we browsed through some of the furniture at ikea which didn't really suit all of her needs so i convinced her to let me have at it. $500 later...
the construction is two frameless boxes with PVC edgebanding clad with maple plywood panels which were edgebanded with some leftover hot melt maple, pocket screwed to the end panel and finally attached from inside of the cabinets with screws. the desk top was just a sheet of maple plywood laminated to some MDF i had lying around and edged with solid maple which was pocket screwed. the raised panels were done on a bosch 4000 tablesaw which i subsequently sold in anticipation of buying the newer model - once they start going on discount! drawer construction was with metabox drawer slides from blum. finish was initially with sherwin-williams sanding sealer (yuck!) followed with minwax water-based polycrylic (great stuff). i later used zinsser sealcoat which worked much better as a sanding sealer.
one of the tricks i picked up from the JLC online forum was to pocket screw the end panel rails to the stiles. it definitely cut down on clamping time!
the construction is two frameless boxes with PVC edgebanding clad with maple plywood panels which were edgebanded with some leftover hot melt maple, pocket screwed to the end panel and finally attached from inside of the cabinets with screws. the desk top was just a sheet of maple plywood laminated to some MDF i had lying around and edged with solid maple which was pocket screwed. the raised panels were done on a bosch 4000 tablesaw which i subsequently sold in anticipation of buying the newer model - once they start going on discount! drawer construction was with metabox drawer slides from blum. finish was initially with sherwin-williams sanding sealer (yuck!) followed with minwax water-based polycrylic (great stuff). i later used zinsser sealcoat which worked much better as a sanding sealer.
one of the tricks i picked up from the JLC online forum was to pocket screw the end panel rails to the stiles. it definitely cut down on clamping time!