Gadgetory

today I'm going to show you how I built my super huge granite inlaid solid wood desk each of these chunks right here are pieces of granite that I got for free from a counter shop it was just throwing them away the legs are made of piping I'll explain a little bit more about that as well so here's where I'm at so far I'm making a giant seven footlong granite inlaid desk I got these three quarter inch thick ones just because it'll take less wood out of the desk I have some thicker pieces of granite but when you're taking that much wood out of the total deaf space it's going to leave it pretty structurally unsound so the thinner the pieces of granite are the more sturdy the desk will be I have a bunch more granite slabs over there as far as positioning of the granite goes I have this piece right here which used to be one I thought it'd be kind of cool to spread it out a little bit and then as far as the rest of them goes I kind of want to keep the same grain of the granite even though these are entirely different chunks that are broken off they have that dark streak kind of go on left to right I want to keep that kind of uniform throughout the table to keep a general theme of it and then as I'm using my plunge router to cut out the holes I have marked this with a pencil and I've left a little piece of wood right here so as I router out this space around here this will keep the router steady and even with the top of the table so I don't end up with uneven chunks at the bottom and I'll show you what I mean later on now all I have to do is finish routing out the other slots for the other pieces of granite and I'll figure out how to fill this gap between the granite and the wood I've started to seal the blocks down into the wood I've taken some liquid nails and some wood glue and I've drifted into the hole and then set the granite slabs on top of the Apple to kind of seal it into the back of the wood and then I started taking wood filler and putting it around the outside of the granite and the inside of the wood and that's worked out pretty well so far one thing that really helped me lay the wood filler in between the granite in the wood is when I started I was using my finger and a knife and putting it in between but it was spreading out too far in the wood and I'm afraid that's going to look bad when I finally stain it so what I did is I bought one of these Dollar ketchup dispensers from Walmart and filled it up with the wood filler and then I can take it and squeeze it into the crack between the granite and the wood and that makes it a lot less messy I also try to experiment with the liquid nails that liquid nail says it's stainable so we're going to find that out I use these two front pieces entirely with liquid nails so I'm going to take those and send them down later clean them up and then we'll see how well they stain what's nice with the wood filler though is that I can take it and it's rough right now but since as soon as it's going to dry it leaves it a little bit tacky and you can just tap it down into the hole and kind of clean up that hole a lot better than it would normally one block left and then I'll let it dry for a day and then stand and see what happens let me talk a minute for about the base that I'm using for the desk it is a pipe base basically the whole thing is made out of pipes so starting with this leg here you can see I have the base then I have a tea joint after a four-inch straight piece and then that branches out and I'm going to link all of the different parts of this base in the video description below I'll put a link there to what all the parts are so I have this bar right here spaces the two legs and then I have another T joint up here that moves across and I teach you one here that moves up so there's a total four legs around the side that you can see here and then there's the one leg here up in the center that goes up towards the back and that's where my monitor stands going to be so this adds another little bit of support in the center of the back of the desk and I've put all of my weight on that and it evenly distributes it down these legs over here which is really nice so the desk is going to be pretty darn sturdy another thing that's nice about the desk is that the garage floor isn't quite even you can see that there's a little bit discrepancy between the concrete slabs but at each of the joints you can see the base the four inch piece and the T joint you can screw it in a little bit more a little bit less and then the top will be exactly where you want it you so learned a couple things while staying the top of this desk a stain does stick to granite so I'm gonna have to find a way to get that off after I noticed that I did switch around and start taping off the pieces of granite so hopefully the rest of them won't end up quite as marked up now it's all uncovered and ready to be put in the office slash my bedroom so I'm getting the base of the table all screwed into place and all of the tops are measured so they're all the exact same height so I'm pretty happy with how the desk turned out I use two different types of granite just to kind of see how they would differ so we have the white granite in the back and that's just like a matte finish it's not super glossy or anything and I think it looks alright but I actually prefer this darker granite right here that is super glossy you can see the reflection of the light right there and the door frame so I think having a bunch of super glossy pieces embedded in the wood would look really cool the one thing that I would do different as I tried using liquid nails right here because it said it was stainable it actually did not stain very well and I don't like how it looks I mean it's not terrible but where I use the wood filler blends in a lot easier with the granite so next time I will use wood filler for all the granite pieces instead of liquid nails so it's fun about this setup is I have my new desk here and I have my old desk here and if you remember this is the one I did the wireless charging through the bottom of the desk I'll post a link for that video here as well and so since it's right next to my bed I can just take my phone put it right on my desk and have it wire as the charge through the desk during the night this is also where I do all my phone repair videos as well help set up my lightbox and put my camera mount and tripod here so I can film those videos right next to my editing station so this is it and as you can tell it's pretty darn sturdy thanks ton for watching if you have any questions make sure you leave them down in the comments below don't forget to like if you enjoyed this project and don't forget to subscribe thanks for watching you