bobtskutter
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Hello All,
I made a desk for my son out of an old Ikea drop leaf table that the next door neighbor gave me.
The desktop is made from the two leaves and central piece of table. I had to cut the central piece of the table into square and rotate them to get the grain to line up. The desktop is made in three pieces so I could carry it from the garage, up the stairs and into his room. It's joined together with 10mm dominos and kitchen worktop connector bolts. The desktop is attached to the stretchers through a slot cut with the DF500 and then screwed with 20mm washers, you can't see the slot because the washer is too big.
The aprons are made from the original table legs after are held together with 10mm dominos and PU glue. I managed to break the apron at the front of desk in half trying to get it apart after a dry fit of the whole desk went wrong. Lots more glue and clamps were needed to glue it all back together again. I need to make myself a set of loose fit dominos just for dry fit assembly tests!
The aprons are joined to the legs using two 10mm dominos and a plywood corner brace. The whole assembly is pretty stable and the legs don't move.
I had to make two draw units after I dropped the original one and it landed on a corner and was no longer square - a lot of strong swear words were spoken that night!
The draw fronts are made of beach from the original table glued together with 6mm dominos and PU glue. The draw front is also the front of the draw box and is attached using through dominos and brad nails. The bottom draw front has split along a glue line, probably because I made it in my cold garage and it's attached to draw box sides with no room for movement (I don't think I used dominos in that joint). It's annoying but my son is happy with his new desk, and my wife gets her office back!
I wish I'd used decent quality draw runners with full adjustments. The cheap ones I used were very difficult (for me at least) to line up and get everything running smoothly, I planed to bottom draw to make it fit and needed to trim the draw fronts as well. That's why the draw fronts don't look perfectly symmetrical - annoying. But it's all a learning curve.
Regards
bob
I made a desk for my son out of an old Ikea drop leaf table that the next door neighbor gave me.
The desktop is made from the two leaves and central piece of table. I had to cut the central piece of the table into square and rotate them to get the grain to line up. The desktop is made in three pieces so I could carry it from the garage, up the stairs and into his room. It's joined together with 10mm dominos and kitchen worktop connector bolts. The desktop is attached to the stretchers through a slot cut with the DF500 and then screwed with 20mm washers, you can't see the slot because the washer is too big.
The aprons are made from the original table legs after are held together with 10mm dominos and PU glue. I managed to break the apron at the front of desk in half trying to get it apart after a dry fit of the whole desk went wrong. Lots more glue and clamps were needed to glue it all back together again. I need to make myself a set of loose fit dominos just for dry fit assembly tests!
The aprons are joined to the legs using two 10mm dominos and a plywood corner brace. The whole assembly is pretty stable and the legs don't move.
I had to make two draw units after I dropped the original one and it landed on a corner and was no longer square - a lot of strong swear words were spoken that night!
The draw fronts are made of beach from the original table glued together with 6mm dominos and PU glue. The draw front is also the front of the draw box and is attached using through dominos and brad nails. The bottom draw front has split along a glue line, probably because I made it in my cold garage and it's attached to draw box sides with no room for movement (I don't think I used dominos in that joint). It's annoying but my son is happy with his new desk, and my wife gets her office back!
I wish I'd used decent quality draw runners with full adjustments. The cheap ones I used were very difficult (for me at least) to line up and get everything running smoothly, I planed to bottom draw to make it fit and needed to trim the draw fronts as well. That's why the draw fronts don't look perfectly symmetrical - annoying. But it's all a learning curve.
Regards
bob
