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What kind of plywood did you use or do you not care about the appearance?
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I paint it since plywood has little splinters which hurt when you use the mouse lol.
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SoMad wrote: What kind of plywood did you use...
"Furniture Grade" plywood works best for a project like this. (It doesn't have any voids in the layers which makes it stronger, less prone to warping, and the edges(although clearly plywood) can be finished without them getting ragged.) An alternative is to buy a counter-top (cut to size... anything from marble to cheap plywood with a veneer.).
If you own your home and don't plan on moving soon, you may consider building the desk into a wall. Simple 2x4 frame attached at the right height. (remember to use a level, not strictly the height from the floor) Use either table legs with adjustable feet (available pre-made, just attach) or support the top with 2x4 braces that run from near the edge to the wall. This can look like almost anything depending on the materials used. Nice, functional, classy, hillbilly.
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don't.
go to a store and by 4 legs and a top and it will be better than that, especially if you are not used into building stuff.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Forget the desk, all I need is the chair[^] 
Marc
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Get a couple of filing cabinets and a decent length of laminate countertop. If you want an L shape, just use two with 45 degree endcuts. You can always build extra shelving for the top if you need it. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Thanks, but I am not sure I can find filing cabinets at the right height - the height of my current keyboard tray.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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My home "office" is 10x10. Oddly enough, Lowe's has 10' long faux marble kitchen counters, precut to fit together in an L.
Plenty of room to fit my systems, their monitors, the near-field monitors, the printer, the scanner, the ridiculously bulky video monitor, and the two cats.
Real Soon Now™.
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This[^] and this[^] are the only pictures I have of the last one I made -- I don't have any of the "finished product"
When I moved house, I chopped it up so that the computer side and the shelf side would go on opposite walls.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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 That's pretty nice, thanks for sharing. What wood did you use for the top?
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I made the whole thing out of MDF, and used yacht varnish to get a rich, heavy finish.
Note that if you build the desk in as part of the room, the missus can't keep making you move it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks, you did get it quite shiny with that varnish .
I am considering using MDF, but I am also considering using edge-glued boards since they are not as prone to splinters and edge-chipping as plywood. The problem is that I cannot find a pre-made board with the dimensions I would like (56" x 30").
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: The problem is that I cannot find a pre-made board with the dimensions I would like (56" x 30")
Get yourself a cheap biscuit cutter[^], and you can join two pieces -- my desk was joined just where the drawers end (designed to be separated, later, which it now has been).
If you make sure that the joining edges are dead straight*, no-one will ever know you've added a bit.
n.b. If you do go for joined-edge panels, pick ones that don't have big colour differences in the batons, or the stripes'll piss you off when you're sitting at it.
* Use a jointing block: spray- or contact-glue 100-grit sandpaper to both sides of a 4x9" MDF-or-similar offcut, and rub the full length of the board in a single movement, several times -- it doesn't take a lot of practice, and works miraculously well.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think this would be quite a fun exercise, and my small media collection is growing fast enough (with the Telkom 60GB + 60GB) package to start making me anxious about preserving it. I'll just offload it to an external drive for now, so it's safe if my machine goes postal, but just one copy doesn't do much for peace of mind.
Has anyone done this, or does anyone know of a good guide to doing it? I really only need rich theory, not specifics, as I'm limited to parts readily available to me here in SA.
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Google Doodle tells me it is St Andrew's Day.
So for all those Porridge Quaffers, have a great day.
That means you Mr Auld!
But please...do NOT abuse your wailing octopus, it is more than I can bear.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I'm just glad that it didn't explode or catch fire when it crashed...poor buggers. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I have finally bought Mrs Dalek's Xmas Prez
This Baby[^]
I listen to the Home Service on a Roberts DAB.
That is sufficient for me.
But Being a musical type, andmuch younger and therefore down wid da yute, she likes her music.
This monster has Bluetooth and NFC connection, and pumps out enough watts to keep her amused.
I love the flashing lights in the speakers, groovy man!
I just know she will love this, and therefore I gain Brownie Points.
I only went in for a small set of speakers, intending to spend £25 or so.
Ended up giving the whiskerless youth behind the counter £200!
Hey ho.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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That is very cool, Dave; with 230 Watts she should be able to drown out your screams.
yours, Bill
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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Some idiot tutor has decided that the class homework this year is getting an article published on CP, and "and one of two equal parts of our score is directly depends on our codeproject reputation"
So...expect some real rubbish incoming, and probably a measure of abuse when it gets rejected. 
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Is there any way we can delete the tutor?
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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You mean, legally?
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Pest / vermin control is a public duty, isn't it? 
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Don't know who he is - though Chris might be able to tell from the school IP I guess.
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Maybe the guy should send his tutor the Article FAQ and explain the moderation process to him. I read the comments on his article and got the impression he thinks we must 'approve' because its homework....yeh right!
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