Gadgetory

alright back in the studio actually this in the studio this is like has the hardware studio here we're in Bo's dad's woodshop and we are on day 2 which is actually Saturday 3 days from the last video is filming date of the desk building process this is the second frame here we're working on we just drilled in the little support beams here for the frame underneath the MDF got a little wet on that one the autofocus is going crazy here it's got a little weight here so kind of bowed out MDF does not like water keep that in mind something like melamine would be better for water resistance but only this little part here got wet so we might just roll with it for now we'll put it in the back underneath it shouldn't see it so we're going to place a center beam here and that should give it a bit more structural rigidity and if we need to we'll add subsequent beams going this way and one more on that side now but we're working on shaving off just at the end of one so we get it to fit inside because it's it's so close you got to get this thing almost perfect lengthwise so that it doesn't make the frame bow out or kind of concave in so I both bows doing some work right now literally half a blade like yes it's the liver that he's trying to cut here so our dilemma right now this is the MDF underneath the frame and we have this is a nail length of about an inch and a half so the two by two we're supposed to be a two by two is actually about an inch and a half thick so the nail is barely gonna reach the MDF if it even does we might have to pre-drill and kind of bore this out a little bit so we have a bit more depth to work with we're just gonna have to kind of play it by ear because we don't have anything between an inch and a half and I mentioned 3/4 at which point it'll basically Pierce all the way through the MDF and ruin the top of the table so I think our solution is actually the solution I came up with so if it doesn't work it's on me we're gonna do some old-fashioned drilling here kinda like I learned in petroleum engineering school so this is a really big bit it's huge it's probably like a maybe a centimeter and a half wide and we're gonna pre-drill some holes about maybe a quarter of an inch down into the frame and then we're gonna drill with a much smaller bit all the way through into the MDF so this should give us that little extra breathing room to ensure that the threads of the nail are getting into the MDF properly I'm gonna be the one I guess doing the you're gonna make me do this aren't you point it down hey wow that kids want it down Wow if we're given life lessons today okay no no next don't lift all right so we've gotta pour it out a little more next time yes if you wanted to know guys I've got chickens Greg already petted his first chicken chicken I'm a little deeper than I wanted to be well see well we've made contact [Laughter] so our limo you shape is uh it's working out grants a good to do some pre unorthodox sawing oh boy we're gonna make it work that's close enough okay so we knew that the middle back leg would be a bit longer than it should be because we didn't completely shave down the part where it kind of fits like a u-shape in between the frame so we're gonna take a sander and sand the crap out of that middle bottom leg and then hopefully this will be level afterward this will be our checking balance right here so let's sand it and then we'll test the structural integrity of it by sitting on it huh this is easily like a two-person desk but that was the point so we could have up to four people in the office just working and they each have their own space enough of it anyway okay what's going on everyone this was supposed to be a separate video but why not just throw it all into one right this is all about the desk this is the second desk the first one is already set up I've got a bunch of junk on it now but I wanted to show you just like the corral construction how we decided to put this thing together to make it as structurally sound as we could given our limited knowledge in woodworking so we originally just had it where we had five legs and then we're being held up by these sub frames here which are actually not attached to the frame underneath that's what we're calling it a sub frame because it's really independent you can remove the legs and keep the frame and take the sub frame with the legs so the sub frame is more or less to keep the legs from rocking back and forth these these are really sturdy here not going anywhere but apart from moving that sub frame up against the frame we've also done is added this 45 degree angle here what this does is provide a bit more support for the front middle of the desk which was the weakest beforehand it's still the weakest because not a leg there now but this definitely helps out I recommend you're gonna build a desk that's anywhere near eight feet in length and you only want four or five legs you got to have at least one of these we could have probably done some some weird stuff maybe done like a cross beam here something to make it a bit more stable in the front but this should be good enough we're not gonna put any heavy PC right in the front center of the desk now but apart from that everything else is pretty standard what you saw earlier in the video and I'm going to turn this around set it all up run some LEDs behind you for a nice back effect and then give you an official set up tour of the new studio well there you have it I hope you've enjoyed the progression up to this point we now finally have an office with multiple setups desks on both sides of the room so that many people can come in here and work on multiple things at the same time first and foremost I want to give a huge shout out to my good friend beau without his help these desks would not have been anywhere near as structurally sound as they are and I doubt I honestly would have even been able to finish them how to put a computer on top of one adjust what a collapse Tommy at which point I'd have just given up and bought some desks somewhere else but for what we paid around seventy-five to eighty bucks and I think it came out to around 40 hours in total labor not now it was less than that it was like thirty hours we worked about two or three solid days on it from sunup to sundown we completed the desks and I would say that I would do it again if I had to say if I had to build two desks or buy two desks online I would choose to build like so many tech tubers using the IKEA desks and that's cool and all but I want to be different I want to say that yeah I built that I didn't just put a slab on top of a frame and call it my own custom desk these are genuinely custom they are built by hand the wood was not you know crafted by hand but we made the desk by hand we used our own nails our own tools and we cut things down to the sizes that we wanted and I could not feel more proud of our result I also have a call to action for all of you I want you to click the link at the very top of this video's description ok you see it click that link and it'll take you to Beau's YouTube channel you have a gaming channel he goes through a bunch of different games so we review them and talk about why he chooses what in-game the guy he backs up what he says he's a really good gamer as well so check out his channel click that subscribe button for him it'll do him a solid and he will greatly appreciate it apart from that I would like to know what all of you think about the new office set up now this isn't supposed to be the most high-tech modern room it's just supposed to be a productive room that's why the desks were such an integral part of the office set up we had to have space for multiple pcs so that multiple people could come in here at any time and work on whatever they desire and if you're interested we also have the desk specs in the video description they're listed out the desk are identical by the way so if you want to just multiply everything listed there by 2 but those are the specs for one desk you want to build one just like this it's good for anyone who wants to put 2 pcs on it these will support a hundred hundred fifty pounds if they're built well nope problem if you use the Wrightwood nothing that cheap stuff that use on fences getting little solid two-by-fours and you should be fine there so if you want to build a dish just like this check out the description go to your local hardware store and get them to cut the wood down to size for you and you should be on your way to having a really productive space these desks are huge they're very long and they're not too wide which means that you don't take that much space in that sense you just put them against the wall set some tech on top of it and be as productive as you want to be with that if you liked this video be sure to let us know by giving this one thumbs-up thumbs-down for the opposite click that subscribe button by the way if you haven't 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