MrJakePrince

Hello my fellow Kiwi's, thank you for the kind words :)

Firstly though, Big thank you to my sponsors

Performance PCS

http://www.performance-pcs.com/

Mayhems Coolant

http://www.mayhems.co.uk/front/
 
 
Computer Lounge

http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/
 
Table of Contents
Update One Here
Update Two  Here
Update Three Here
Update Four Here
Update Five Here
Update Six Here
Update Seven Here
Update Eight Here
Update Nine Here
Update Ten Here
Update Eleven Here
Update Twelve Here
Update Thirteen Here
Update Fourteen Here


 
So it begins!!
 
  For those who wish to have a look at the sketchup model for this desk,
 
I have uploaded it to here
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97695353/desk%20final.skp
 
You can download Sketchup here if you do not have it 
http://www.sketchup.com/download
 
Conceptual design

 
 
 
Here is what the timber looks like. Is native NZ Rimu. Please excuse the end one with the bird poo, that will be sanded off in due course. bloody sparrows in the shed >.<

 
 
 
Cut some of the pieces to length of 650, after everything has been glued together will refine the length to 600 

 
 
 
Tools for the job. PVA glue, biscuits. annnd a... Biscuit cutter? (who cares about its real name biscuit cutter sounds cool)

 

 

 
 
 
As you can see, there is some light inbetween the boards, so a nice plane on areas will help close those gaps up

 
 
 
Some fellow putting the biscuits into their grooves after a nice layers of PVA Glue.

 
 
 
All clamped up, with some weights on the timber to stop it from setting wonky 
This here is ONE side to the draw unit
 


 
 
Had to take the pieces to school and use the planer to make the edges all smooth, and to take any imperfections out
 

 

 
 
 
Here are the two horizontal supports for the desk, which the one on the left will be at the front as it has the toe bit on it. Sanded down with lovely wet and dry sandpaper to give it a baby smooth finish 
 

 

 

 

 


 
 
This is what happens once you get a nice plane
 


 
 
drilling out the holes for the dowels to go in, 1mm larger then the dowel so that the glue sets better
 

 

 
 
Once all holes drilled its time to start gluing them in place, and setting everything up to be cramped together
 


 

 
 
 
Now she is cramped, the draw body is setting, and now it is time to make the draws them selves 
 


 

 

 

 
 

 
Here are the draw fronts cut a little oversize just to be safe, not sanded or thicknessed or anything yet

 

 
My small wee thicknesser working its magic on the draw fronts, boy does this puppy make a mess!!

 

 

 
currently have two racks installed at the moment, start from the bottom and work your way up. Doing one at a time to make sure everything fits perfectly on the first time!

 

 

 
These are the draw sides, just some MDF which I will be painting matte black. Think it is somewhere around 12-13mm thick.

 
The box of which the draws will be just sitting there for a test fit, have to make sure that it sits on the sliders properly 

 

 
And here are the sides and front/back for the two bottom draws going to school to get everything cut to length properly and use that lovely big planner (note to self, buy one of those big planners as they make life so much easier)

 
Bruce one of the pet lambs thought he would come up and see what's up. Was more interested in sticking his head in boxes around the shed though lol

 
Since the thicknesser I used at school had a few chips in the blade (GRRR) spent about an hour belt sanding the sides to make all the imperfections go away, belt was a 'used' 120 grit piece

 
Time to smoothen the sides up and then further make sure there are no ridges because you can certainly feel if there is anything wrong with a certain spot if the rest is smooth! This was I think around a 80 grit on a circular sander

 
After happy with the piece of timber, it was time to move to the 240 grit wet/dry. After 5 minutes of nice, slow and steady sanding. I can assure you that there was much pleasure in rubbing my hand around the timber... my GOD it is smooth.

 
So this is what it looked like before sanding

 
And this is what a few minutes of 240 grit wet/dry does 

 
All the pieces have now been sanded down to get rid of all imperfections that I could

 
Sam and I discussing what to do next.

 
GOOD MAN SAM! That's right, have to have the aluminium rods for the 'files' to sit on

 
All cut to length and the ends filed down

 
All is well 

 
both ends in, and the file fits. Looks like my measuring was correct 

 
Sam now bored and reflecting on life as it is 

 
Predrilling holes for the sides to be nailed to the Side of the FRONT/BACK

 
Both sides done

 
Add a line of glue for extra support

 
Straightened it up and nailed em all in!

 
Now to do the next side 

 
Can't forget to add the rails in when putting the other side on!!

 
Predrilled the holes and put the nails in ready to smack em along the bottom. 

 
 
Here is the draw unit in some decent light Still have to get the draw front on too.

 
Time to screw the rail sliders for the draw on. Firstly I pre drilled the hole with a very small drill bit, just to prevent any cracking of the MDF then in the screw goes!

 
Here is the bottom draw front, and after some 360 wet/dry. You can see the shiny'ness, it is so smooth 

 
Since I cannot do any more draws till I get some more custom wood, thought I would be useful and get the other sides legs sorted. So found some nice pieces of more Rimu, which will be thicknessed down a bit, and will router the edges too

 
Ran them through the thicknesser, got hit in the face by a few flying chips. Lucky my safety glasses protected my eyes 

 

 

 
 
So now both pieces are lovely and square/flat/straight

 

 
 
Time to clean up the mess made by thicknessing...

 
 
Clamping a bead across the front piece and the draw, to make sure that everything is lined up 

 

 

 
 
All lined up, happy with it. Now let us screw it on!

 
 
The final result

 
 
Time to sort out the spacing between each draw, found the right packers.

 

 
 
Everything has been cut up to length and sanded down for the middle draw unit.

 
 
Let us commence the building!

 

 
 
Time to get the runners aligned and sorted too...

 

 
 
Getting the spacing sorted with the new packer, and then clamping and screwing again

 

 
 
 
Same as before of how to do the attach the front piece to the box

 

 
 
Only one left to do!

 
 
Here is my beast and the box of bits

 
 
Time to router the edges of the legs! Here are the two bits that I will be using (note: the big one is for the legs, the small one is for a bevel around the outside of the draws)

 

 
 
I hadn't used a router before, so got mum to show me how to do it, 

 
 
We were left with a good result, nice smooth. lovely.

 
 
Now time to sand the edges down so that there isn't a "step" from the flat piece to the curve (above pic)

 
 
 
Routered the edge of the LEFT and RIGHT side of all the draws and the BOTTOM of the bottom draw. 

 
 
Once I finished sanding the saw marks, the curve had kinda disappeared, no problems. Will re-router it again 

 
 
The timber I am using is recycled stuff, so there are a few nail holes here and there. Clever trick, use the saw dust of the rimu that has been collected in the table saw bin and mix with PVA glue to make a nice formula that will fill in the holes, dry hard. and then be the most unnoticeable filler!

 
 
After the pva had dried, this is what we were left with

 

 
 
The chisel then got it off to a nice smooth finish that will get sanded down, it might not look perfect, but you can notice a hole in a timber from a mile away

 

 
 
Now it's time to get a piece of wood sorted for the side rail connecting the two legs together

 

 
 
Might as well get the back runner cut while I am here!

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Built my first computer this year with the help of Linus and Newegg's videos.

im using a stock cooler on my i7 2600k....

So here's basically what happened on Sept 7th:
 
 
Three days later, I get a reply:
 
 
Holy crap I didn't expect that Big ol' thumbs up for Corsair Customer Service!
 
I thought they would just point me to a local shop to have it repaired, but they're sending a new I/O panel with no cost to me.
 
Anyone else get a pleasant surprise with their experiences with Corsair?

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Get a ITX build, super small and if you MUST have a laptop get the Razer one

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

I wasn't referring to just Linus nearly every YouTube related giveaway I see these days screws over the rest of the world, it's like everyone in North America forgets that they wouldn't have a first world country right now if Europeans hadn't colonised it. The only International giveaways I ever see are from English Youtubers especially the ones who don't actually make much money from Youtube so if they can be bothered to pay for a shipping charge it pisses me off that Linus, Youtube, Newegg, NCIX etc can't be fucked.
 
Edit. Oh and the Intel gaming promo that Linus is promoting in his post is also NA only so it isn't just this giveaway.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.

Really hate that these things are always US or Canada only, rest of the world just gets screwed over because of 'shipping costs'.