Mahogany Desk, Build of the Year 2018

[Rosinbole]

C-L-E-A-N

[Miroshima]

This is absolutely most epic build what i have ever seen!

 

someday when i got my own man cave i want something like this too.

[KrMaH]

Man, this is the most beautiful piece of art ive ever seen! I'm in awe!

Once I'm done school and have my own place I might do something similar myself!

I can't wait to see further progress!

Wish you nothing but the best of luck and cheerful times in the continuation of the build!

Have an amazing day bud!

[Selder]

Wow, just wow  

[Koverhar]

Thanks for the kind comments!

 

Time to do a small update. Getting my chromeparts back the 17th of marsh

 

Got my cableholders back from powder coating. Each hole holds 6 MDPC 16 gauge wires and the bigger hole on the righthand side keeps 5 satadata cables.

 

 

 

 

Had to make a truly wooden pc to do the cables for the motherboard without ripping out my motherboard in my current pc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got a few layers of the key as well to keep the grease and dirt of my fingers away from the wood. The wood is Flaming Birch

 

 

 

 

And here's my lamp that will be in the same room as my desk. Just for the luls

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just started with this and it's not really a priority but if anyone wanna make a lamp here's 1 way to do it

[Koverhar]

Tommorow assembly starts. I got my 27 chromed parts home. FINALLY 

Let the games begin 

 

[Vegard_]

That monitor mount is so cool, this is well made!

[Koverhar]

It is time then. Second to last assembly. This time every single thing will be built into the table with the exception of putting in the water. Then disassembly one final time prep the parts and go to town and hope the end result was worth it.

With that being said here we go. 

I just love how nickel plating looks and feels. I had to clean them up a bit with window cleaner but they were looking fantastic in general


 
 
 

Starting from scratch again pretty much 

1 LEG!

 

 

Had to change the type of bolt for aesthetic reasons

 
 

2 legs now and some interior panels 

 

Time for the radiator grills 
 

Portside

 

 

And Starboard

 

Installing the big ones

 

With the special fasteners

 

Also put in a bit of a cheat to make sure they didn't sag at all. Screw wont be visible

 

Key mechanism installed

 
 

Had to cut a hole out of the back panel to feed motherboard cables to the screen etc. This won't be visible either

 
 

Painted the reinforcement

 

All chromed parts in place


 
 

 

 

Key in place as well as the usb/audio plate also that nickel plated. Key as previously made from flaming birch. 5 or 6 layers of 2 component varnish to not stain the wood.

 

I like the color scheme

 

Monitor back on with the glass

 

A lot of photos. Outside is pretty much finished except the wood needs to get that nanosanding done to gloss it up a bit more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made a video for you so you can get a feeling for moving around the build. I suck at photography so it's hard for me to capture the grandure

 

 

[Koverhar]

For those who liked the hinges here's how they ended up, I'm pretty pleased with them

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KrMaH]

holy hell!
I... I... I need a fresh set of underwear...
But damn, I have never seen anything as beautiful as this! Damn good work! Im in awe!

[Mnpctech]

very nice, reminds me of captain nemo

[Koverhar]

Time for a small update. Parts will start to get installed tommorow

 

Anyways let's get going, repainted and extended the black to now have any wood show in bad places from the outside

 

 

 

We made a part for the ethernet and power cable. This way you can easily connect and disconnect the cables with 4x m8 bolts. Obviously this gets powdercoated too

 

 

 

This will hold a lot of weight if need be. No chance of power cable coming loose

 

 

 

Pumps arrived, remade the stands for them as well. You'll see how they're mounted very soon (Mainframe m7 )

 

 

 

Hinges mounted

 

 

 

Love how it reflects everything

 

 

 

Testing the 2 component epoxy glue on some other glass. Supposedly an area of 56 square centimeters should hold 7000kg of tension force. 

 

 

 

Protecting the wood and hinges from the glue if we get it wrong and use too much. I recommend this specific frozen pizza package for this

 

 

 

 

 

Wide shot with the hinges in. No picture with the glass glued because i'll let it cure overnight just to make sure

 

 

On 4/26/2018 at 8:27 PM, Mnpctech said:

very nice, reminds me of captain nemo

Thanks man. Watched your stuff for years

[Not_Sean]

Honestly, at this point I really hope this gets a video with @LinusTech checking it out! 

[8uhbbhu8]

This is amazing  Although I feel that those hinges need some sand blasting to smooth out the welds a bit more  

[Koverhar]

Got the hinges finally glued and glass works  I gotta say though this was by far the hardest part of the build for us. Like really time consuming and really challenging. Took 3 people to mount this thing and figuring out how to do these hinges was a pain but I'm so happy it's done 

 

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This is fully enough so you can reach the components if need be

 

 


 

Parts getting installed. The pumps the Psu and the 360 rad are now bolted down. With the first official hardline pipe as well  

 

Bad picture but here's how I'm getting through the wood, There's no joint at all actually 

 

The pumps.

[Zandvliet]

One word: amazing.

[Koverhar]

Not a lot left no, just gotta get the waterjet to cut out my pipe strengthener bits and get those powdercoated and final assembly can commence. Here's a small sneakpeak

 

 

[Arkratos]

That's some intense tubing!

[Koverhar]

New

Finally got cables done. Done a few special ones like feeding the pumps and the fans on the same cable with 5 volts going to the fans and 12 to the pumps, Installing all of these bad boys next week



There's plenty of future expansionroom. Got myself another row of connectors 





The pipes are done as well but they will go out and in one more time so you'll get more pictures after



Actually sleeved the cables outside the pc as well 

[Koverhar]

Time for final assembly. Bit time consuming but fun

 

So everything went out and the wood got polished a final time with some carvarnish and canvas. Then the cable combs were predrilled and installed. Then taken out again

 

 

 

Then panels were put in and the cables thrown there.

 

 

 

Bad picture but that small box keeps all the 230 volt. So we get cables for the screen, DAC and psu while using minimal space

 

 

 

After a few hours of getting frustrated the combs were installed. This is a 2 man job:D one guy holding the comb while the other inserts 72 cables in order

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still got to watercut a comb or 2 for the 24pin atx and satapower so this is a bit of a mess still. Good enough to get running though.

 

 

 

Apologies for those expecting the newest coolest gpus etc. This is my old trusted 3930k-i7 and 2 gtx 980s. I trust this rig and there wasn't money to buy brand new stuff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work continues but not that much longer left

[Koverhar]

Well small one but here goes:

 

The pipe strengtheners are done. Testmounted them already but you will see them again. Basically drew them up in CAD and watercut some 1365 hardened steel (10mm thick), This is the biggest one holding 3 pipes but there's about 16 parts total to this system.I tried to rock the pipes really hard but they didn't move so hopefully they will hold for transportation.

 

 

 

Also the ODAC and usb hub is ready for use. And also the custom Headphone stand to match

 

 

 

 

 

Also here I was worried about strength so the plate (6mm) between the odac and the usb hub is welded to the frontplate which is 4 mm. Then bolted through with m5 screws hopefully this will survive daily use.

 

 

 

Not to make marketing but I love these cans. Pure delight

 

 

[FunkmastaFlex]

This would be my ultimate end-game for pc building. It looks amazing. Good Work.

[Koverhar]

Will compete with the build att Dreamhack on the 18th of June so come see me?

[Koverhar]

So I was invited to compete at the Dreamhack Masters modding competition. And some problems had to be solved so here's some pictures on how you move a pc that weighs well over 200kg when packaged

Truck coming

 

Sturdy package. about 500 screws glued waterproof and reinforced. Also coated in dampening materials on the inside

 

Up she goes!

 

 

By all accounts the lift was succesful, The build will be considered complete at the end of this month where I have some decent photos of it

 


 

[Koverhar]

My pc won the Dreamhack Summer 2018 Masters modding competition!!

Final photos of the computer and finish of the build will come in the start of next month. I wanna thank everyone at the Dreamhack crew for helping me move this monster back and forth. Special thanks to Erik, DH Pontus and Alfred you know who you are