DOC Desk
A friend of mine reached out asking for a gift for his father who recently retired. We originally talked about a sign, but, switched gears to a desk. I used sketchup to design this, it made visualizing and building soooo much easier.
The pic is the first design that I came up with, we ended up removing the upper shelf.
I will be putting together a build video along with plans for anyone who might want to make this!
similar design with shelf on side
one of the legs, the 4x4 I was using decided to split all the way down
i wanted to hide the end of the 2x4 on the legs
dowels blew this side apart coming through
some starbond and clamps you wouldn't know
hey, nice legs
test fit to see how it looks
seeing how a chamfered edge would look
cutting all the dominos for the edge banding
adding the edge banding to the bottom shelf
adding lights and a power strip
router template done for front left
another dry fit
epoxy poured, outlet mounted
I painted the bottom with "Arabian Night" by The Real Milk Paint Company
gotta add a branding iron touch
I really liked the contrast of the raw wood, kind of wish I did something similar with the back of the shelves
front view after painting
this was a huge pain to paint, I ended up getting some clear gorilla tape and cutout the letters
so much poly
power outlet
desk delivered and Doc could not have been happier
Here’s a quick video of routing out the DOC letters.
This is a letter template kit sold by Rockler, this is their “State Park Font”