[rescue] Nerd Desks?

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sun, 5 May 2002, Nathaniel Grady wrote:

> My desk fits 4 computers/monitors just fine, and could fit more. Take
> a 4x8 sheet of plywood (i actually used 2 pieces of luan (not spelled
> right - smooth-topped underlayment stuff), cut in half to make 4x4
> sections. Put 2x4's aroudn the bottom and accross the middle like such
> (also showing how i put desks in room):
> WALL-----------------------------
>  ---------      ---------
> W| B |M K|      |K M| W |
> A| L |   |   0  |   | R | 0
> L| A |M K|   ^  |K M| T | ^
> L---------   |  --------- |
> |            -you go here --Or here
> |
>
> (another pair at 45 degrees would probably be better, but it's plenty
> sturdy as is and it saves making any annoying joints)
>
> Then I used virtical 2x4's for the legs by screwing them with large
> bolts into the ledge on the inside of the sides. Put a 45degree base
> about 1' long on the legs on the sides (don't want to run into them
> with your chair). I have another shorter desk underneath (it's just a
> cheep metal bottomed drafting table from Hills, could build someting
> much better actually). Make 2 of said desks. Place against wall with
> room between them for your chair. Voila, 4 computers around you (2 in
> front, 2 in back), room for headless boxen on the table behind the
> monitors and/or normal writing desk space. I have mine so that one is
> in a corner so you can put computers behind the monitors on one and
> writing area on the other. I indicated the computer area as "BLA",
> monitors as M, keyboards as K, writing/study area as WRT and the
> person as O. It was really easy to make as funiture goes. A little
> imagniation would drastically improve it by adding a computer shelf
> behind it to stack machines better
>  (i don't have enought to worry 'bout it), re-orient it so that you
> put another computer on the outside edge. If i were to do it again, i
> would probably pull both away from the wall, and put a middle section
> in so the middle area was a U shaped work area. A little imagination
> and a weekend is the only way to get a good computer desk :)

My first computer desk was a surface framed in 2X4"s, with six 4x4"'s as
legs.  The surface was made by screwing one-side-smooth plywood (with the
smooth side up) into the framing, and gluing a piece of MDF down to the
plywood.  I sanded and lacquered the surface and stained the framing and
legs.  It was 12' long and extremely strong.

Peace...  Sridhar

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