Mahogany Desk, Build of the Year 2018

[FUR1AN]

Wow this is a remarkable build. When I first started reading and saw that it was 2015 I was hoping it would be done by the time I got to the end. Well I guess I’ll have to follow along from here. Best of luck!

[Koverhar]

10 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

Did you try contacting companies to see if they would want to sponsor it?  I know there's a lot of people looking for sponsors, but hey worth a shot I reckon.

I really don't know the proper channels to do this. If anyone does and reads this pm me. It's not for this part of the forum but still

[Koverhar]

18 hours ago, wpowell13 said:

Wow this is a remarkable build. When I first started reading and saw that it was 2015 I was hoping it would be done by the time I got to the end. Well I guess I’ll have to follow along from here. Best of luck!

Yeah it's been a long ride but it WILL BE DONE in the next year, I really am on the end stretch. 

[FUR1AN]

4 hours ago, Koverhar said:

Yeah it's been a long ride but it WILL BE DONE in the next year, I really am on the end stretch. 

Well best of luck to you, I know it will come out great. As a note, I think it would be well worth the investment to hire a professional photographer (possibly someone who does custom cars, as they will be comfortable with the shine of the veneer), to take a session of 4K images for you to keep. That would be a nice summation after your years of hard work.

 

Just a suggestion.

[Koverhar]

1 minute ago, wpowell13 said:

Well best of luck to you, I know it will come out great. As a note, I think it would be well worth the investment to hire a professional photographer (possibly someone who does custom cars, as they will be comfortable with the shine of the veneer), to take a session of 4K images for you to keep. That would be a nice summation after your years of hard work.

 

Just a suggestion.

That is actually planned already:)

[Koverhar]

Well time to get back to work after my first vacation in quite some time 

Got the cabelholders watercut. Next up is sanding them to about 500 grit and then powder coating. I'm decently happy with how they turned out. I went with 8mm 1365 steel this time for some true strength.

There's room for 6 cabels ontop of each other in each opening and 6 satadata cabels in the wider hole. I'll drill true them and mount them with screws down in the table.

I got 8 of them so I can have 1 every 10 centimeters or so 

 

 

And then the beast has arrived  49 inches of samsung goodness. Still in the box because we need to weld a new stand for this thing but it's all good.

 

And lastly some more trivial things like 60 fittigs for watercooling, internal usb 3.0 extenders. 90 degree connections for sata ports etc etc. I got my work cut out for me!

Here's the mess^^

[Koverhar]

Time to show what it looks with the screen on. Bear in mind I'll make a custom stand for it but I already love it.
 

 

 

 

[NoxiousOdor]

That is so awsome

[paddy-stone]

Looking very nice

 

Just out of interest, looks like you have a curved screen there, I'm guessing you have made allowances for the hinged glass "lid" to not impact the screen when you have made the new TV bracket?   and as it is now I guess you can't use the lid as it looks very close to me?

 

Anyway, not a big deal, as I said I'm sure you already made allowances, but just wanted to ask is all.. keep up the excellent work.

[8uhbbhu8]

Holy... That desk is beautiful!!!  It's come so far from when I first saw you starting it  

[Not_Sean]

With how much has changed when you re do the parts inside would you consider replacing all the fans and going RGB inside? 

 

Not a fan of it, but man well well done, its an epic build and done so right and clean! looking forward to seeing it all finished. 

[Koverhar]

19 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

Looking very nice

 

Just out of interest, looks like you have a curved screen there, I'm guessing you have made allowances for the hinged glass "lid" to not impact the screen when you have made the new TV bracket?   and as it is now I guess you can't use the lid as it looks very close to me?

 

Anyway, not a big deal, as I said I'm sure you already made allowances, but just wanted to ask is all.. keep up the excellent work.

Yes obviously I had to get custom hinges to solve this problem. The max range on the hinges make sure the glass won't touch the screen. Hence the custom scissor hinges were needed as seen here. (still waiting to get them back from chrome)

 

[Koverhar]

19 hours ago, Not_Sean said:

With how much has changed when you re do the parts inside would you consider replacing all the fans and going RGB inside? 

 

Not a fan of it, but man well well done, its an epic build and done so right and clean! looking forward to seeing it all finished. 

Well this build is for me but If someone wanted a table made with rgb it would be doable. I'm personally not a fan of the christmastree-e look. That being said the build is technically RGB because I will run custom lights trrough my arduino but thats for another update

[Koverhar]

Time for some time consuming but neccecary stuff

 

All the harddrives and ssd custom cables have been done. Some small fixes to be made still but it's all there and it works

 

 

 

My custom stand for it all if anyone forgot

 

 

 

Not a fun cable to make:S

 

 

 

All done just gonna tuck it a bit and the cables will flow perfectly

 

 

 

And yeah the key ignition is up and running!

 

 

 

[Koverhar]

Components are coming in a bit more rapidly now

 

Last night the 8 temp monitors. Had to make the weirdest cable for this. So I converted the ends from molex to 3 pin fan connectors and then rerouted a molex to not feed 12 volt (didn't realize this at first though so the monitors got some good ol' frying time:D) and theeen another molex end made for the pumps. But all in all it worked well and 10 components running off 1 cable seems very efficient and clean so I'm happy.

 

 

 

Here's a list of what's happening and needs to be done:

 

-Drive to Sweden to get my chromeplated parts back (first week of february).

-Fasten those parts and get special glue to fit the hinges to the glass

-Redo the monitor stand and route said cables through the stand. These cables also have to be custom sleeved

-Route said cables from motherboard to the stand

-Get cableclamps drilled, sanded and painted.

-Order pumps and then make custom stands for them aswell as lathe new backparts.

-Slight remake of the top part of the legs.

-Get the new monitor stand, legs and a few smaller parts to chrome.

-In the meantime finish the cable work and install the watercooling.

-Do the lighting

-Make custom external ethernet and power cables

-Make internal AC power splitters to power screen, ODAC and computer

 

So yeah there's a bit to go but I'm getting there and I have a buildfriend thank god because some of these things are not fun to do alone

[Koverhar]

Got them cableholders done. Had to outsource the drilling because it was so incredibly tight.  Needed 4 mm drilled holes straight through 5 mm of steel. They're ready for paint now. 

 

 

 

Pretty happy with them but it was too tight. Next time I'll get some more margin to work with

 

 

 

I got 8 of them

 

 

[Koverhar]

Well I got a huge update coming in 2-3 weeks but here's a sneakpeak 

This is what will become the new screenholder for the 49 inch samsung. And jesus christ it was hard to find someone willing to bend a 60mm pipe to my specifications. Had to travel quite far to get this done, wasn't cheap either:S Props to Mikael for the welding. 

[potoooooooo]

Damn, that's an impressive piece of metal

[Koverhar]

Well here we go, the legs have been redone. They now have a more smooth and round shape at the upper part.

 

Also increased the surface area and therefor strengthened the structure with about 150% more surface area.

 

Obviously the legs will get sanded down and chromed.

 


Time to get that screen onto this table then 

 


Screenholder getting bored and threaded

 

Using a 65 mm thick shaftsteel to hold the screen in place

 

 

Trown in place

 

Tried to get the shape of the screen emulated and keep the same curvature of the wood

 

And mounted in place!

 

 

 

It's a heavy piece now

 

Testfitting the back wood panel.

 

 

 

 

Next up is sanding and getting back some of the things from chrome

[paddy-stone]

Nice one! Looks amazing.

 

Does the screen stand have any tilt adjustment at all?  or has the screen positioning been measured for your optimal viewing angle?  I'm guessing the second one seeing as the rest of the build has been done to perfection, and redone, lol 

 

[Koverhar]

4 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Nice one! Looks amazing.

 

Does the screen stand have any tilt adjustment at all?  or has the screen positioning been measured for your optimal viewing angle?  I'm guessing the second one seeing as the rest of the build has been done to perfection, and redone, lol 

 

It's currently set to my preference and It can be changed (tilted and piveted) in a measly 30 minutes of tinkering and changing parts:)

[paddy-stone]

2 minutes ago, Koverhar said:

It's currently set to my preference and It can't be changed (tilted and piveted) in a measly 30 minutes of tinkering and changing parts:)

No worries, it's still a very nice build, and if it's set up for your seating position the rest probably doesn't matter at all, was just an idle thought, lol... most people probably adjust their screens like twice a year or something anyway, unless they have bad reflections and such. I have probably moved mine maybe 6 times in the year or so that I've had it... but I have decided to get a gas lift mount for it now anyway, and make some more adjustments that have been put off for too long.

Again, love the build man... it is a work of art for sure.

[Koverhar]

7 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

No worries, it's still a very nice build, and if it's set up for your seating position the rest probably doesn't matter at all, was just an idle thought, lol... most people probably adjust their screens like twice a year or something anyway, unless they have bad reflections and such. I have probably moved mine maybe 6 times in the year or so that I've had it... but I have decided to get a gas lift mount for it now anyway, and make some more adjustments that have been put off for too long.

Again, love the build man... it is a work of art for sure.

I misstyped. You can change everything. It just takes 15-30 minutes to change the tilt. However u can turn the screen on its axis 180 degrees at all times

[paddy-stone]

10 hours ago, Koverhar said:

I misstyped. You can change everything. It just takes 15-30 minutes to change the tilt. However u can turn the screen on its axis 180 degrees at all times

Nice, that's very good then to be able to do that. That's a VERY good design

 

[dronebynsa]

LOVE this design. Very awesome job man, extremely clean and elegant!