After a lot of work, I have finished my Standing Laptop Desk. My intended purpose was to house my laptop for use when playing, learning, improving my guitar playing. While installing, I was actually able to reduce the furniture load in that corner of our living room (well, it’s more of a music room than [...]
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Sloped Laptop Stand
When using my laptop stand, I like to have it tilted. Right now I use the elegant solution of a couple of packages of post-it notes. Since, I’m nearing completion of my new Standing Laptop Desk for use with my music gear, I figured to create a more fitting laptop stand. I used a few [...]
Back to the desk (Standing Laptop Desk)
While I was working on the guitar (see previous post), I’ve had a nearly completed desk in my shop. It’s been quite handing with having another surface to place tools, work items and such on. However, it’s been nagging at me to get it done. Well, this week I was able to get BACK TO [...]
Standing Laptop Desk – Top is on
I worked very hard and got the top flat and smooth along with square. This process really honed my hand plane skills which I’m pleased with (of course, all the work on maple means I need to sharpen the hand planes now). I decided to make my own wooden clips. Here is a shot [...]
Sanding
… and more sanding. I’ve got the top finished and now I’m on to the frame. Sanding a frame … is hard … and time consuming. I start with 80 grit and move to 220. As I said the top is finished but I’ve just started the frame. It’s going to take me into tomorrow [...]
Frame Glue Up
I finished the frame pieces and dry fitted them. I’m pretty happy with the results though similar to most woodworkers, I can see every error and blemish in the project and that frustrates me. I believe that I can fix a few of them after the glue up so that is the plan that I’m [...]
Frame is dry fitted
I’ve hit a big milestone. I’ve got the majority of the frame dry fitted. I still have a piece under the drawer on the front and then 2 lower/inner cross members for additional stability. As most woodworkers can do for their projects, I can find a ton of issues with it but over all I’m [...]
Double Mortises
OK, as a newb to hand cut mortises and tenons I’m pushing the envelope by doing double mortises. I know, it’s crazy. All in all though, I’m pretty happy with the results.
Standing Laptop Desk – First Mortise and Tenons
OK, today I finished my first mortise and tenons on the Standing Laptop Desk. Only 20,000 more to go. OK, maybe not that many but looking at it from the beginning makes it seem that way. I’ve shown some practice mortise and tenons in previous posts but I was still kind of frustrated with them. [...]
Wood Prep Shots
Here is a shot of all the hand processed maple boards that I have for my standing laptop desk. As you can see, I have the top glued together (still need size but I want to wait till the desk frame is together). I also have the legs with taper and now they are marked [...]
Progress on my standing laptop desk
The next post should have some pictures. Having never built a project entirely by hand, I had no accurate idea of how long any particular step was going to take. Once I got started I realized that any guess I had was far off (by orders of magnitude). I think I compounded the time problem [...]
Standing Laptop Desk – Tapered Legs
I’ve been making progress over the week. It’s been very slow going. After roughing the dimensions of the legs, I wanted to get them more exactly square, plummed. This takes a long time. After that, I wanted to get the tapers done. This took figuring out which legs will be the front and which part [...]
Prepping Legs
As I’ve indicated in past posts, the Standing Laptop Desk is an experiment of sorts. I am planning on doing the entire project using hand tools (no power other than muscle). I decided to start with prepping the legs. The legs will be 40″ long and as close to 2″ x 2″ as I can [...]
Project Wood
OK, I’ve finally gotten the wood (actually I got it last week). I got, hopefully, the right number of board feet of maple for a Standing Laptop Desk with drawer. The entire desk will be maple except for the drawer. The inside of the drawer will be pine and the front face (with half blind [...]
Time to buy some wood
OK, it’s a new month and I have finally caught up with my budget. I get to go buy some wood for my next project. I’m going to build a standing desk that will primarily be used for my laptop which is used in conjunction with my guitar practice and playing. My plan, before I [...]
