Metal & Wood Computer Desk Build | JIMBOS GARAGE
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- This is how you can build a metal and wood desk. It was a great welding and wood project to do in the garage.
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Great build and terrific video. Thanks. I've built a few desks like this. Next time I suggest a hardwood (cherry or maple are my favs) because it'll take a tung oil finish real well. Just rub it on with some clean lint-free rags and let it dry up - only downside is it will take a few days to cure solid. But you cannot beat how easy it is, and it looks great. Once mostly cured up you can even follow with some spray lacquer - I use the rattle cans for all but big jobs now. One other piece of advice is that gloss table tops show scratches and dents. Satin has a nice luster and ages without looking 'old'. Again, not a criticism just experience from a guy who once (a long time ago) made furniture for (not much) money. Thanks again.
I liked his narrative throughout the video...he doesn't miss anything
As a buildin' engineer, at first I thought this piece of furniture would be too massive but I just changed my mind at the end of the video. Great welding job. Straight to the point. Nice result. And one of the cleanest workshop I have ever seen on RUclips ^^) Big hello from Belgium.
Thanks for watching From Belgium! Jimbo!
My dude Jimbo killed it with this desk. Final result is solid.
Much better than anything ikea or jysk will ever made or dream, it looks simple but if you know, you know its a desk made with love, skill and made to last for the next generation to enjoy as well unlike the garbage furniture made to last one or two years👏👏👏
nice to finally see a guy wearing his PPE.
when i watch car restoration shows on television i can identify the rare Australian in a UK or USA workshop, he's the only guy wearing full cover PPE.
Looks great! For future reference, Birchwood Casey also makes some nice oxide finishes in various levels of blue gray or black and that may give you a finish you like better.
It's beautiful!
When you glue up a panel that is long like that top flip the direction of the parallel clamps. Every other one (up and down). It puts pressure in both directions to keep them from cupping or bowing. There are also really cool clamps that put pressure top/bottom ,and pinch in the sides. Rockler and woodcraft have them. To keep them in line throw in some calls. Take a couple of straight pieces of wood and sandwich them top and bottom every so often. Coat the faces in packing tape. Use F- clamps on the ends. Will keep the boards aligned in place.
13 minutes in. I used to either biscuit joint, dowel joint and clamp wood together. I nkw just glue wood together. Like you mentioned the glue is that strong you don't need dowel, biscuit or domino joints. Well I made a number of tops 30 mm thick wood. Old recycled hard woods. They are over 10 years old and fine. Okay, dominos may be very strong for certain tasks. As for the tops
I made I'm screwing onto the carcas and it's worked fine for my application.
After you ran each of the sections of the top through the planer you should've ran through the table saw again to square up the edges. When clamping put half of the clamps on the top and half on the bottom and that way it'll be more of an even squeeze to reduce buckling. It turned out great!
I have followed you for years and looking back at some of these older projects is fun. You do good work. Nice table
Отличный видеоурок ,всё понятно .Мастерская и инструменты - мечта любого мастера .
At 5 minutes. Yes, that's what I always end up
Doing. Clamps everywhere. I still haven't found an easy and accurate way to weld frames. I have built dozens of frames.
Some, I don't need accuracy. Say for storing equipment and materials. Others, I built cupboards, sets of draws using steel as a carcass. Yes I want more accurate and square. I'm always a little bit out. One thing I learnt is when. I get too much heat and the steel moves and I hear the creaking, something's moving. They are often good strong welds. Okay I'm going to watch the rest of the video. Thanks for posting and uploading video.
I know this was three years ago. I have made many cabinets. I'm 16 minutes in and see you using c clamps because of buckling. Yes that's true. A tip you probably or someone already may have mentioned. All along the length I used to clamp square or rectangle hollow section steel . Rhs or shs. That way there is minimum buckling. Even after that the wood may move. Even old wood when you run through a thicknesses despite been 50, 60 years old or even older will move.
Excellent video! I've come to the conclusion after 45 plus year of doing this thing of Fabrication. Empire spirit levels don't live very long in a metal fab shop. I'm sure from falling, but also from heat! I've been using the heavy aluminum Milwaukee levels . They seem to live longer. (Not a commercial). And don't forget to skip weld so you don't get twists and warps. I know its boring, but it keeps the snake away!
If I had a tenth of your skill I would be a proud man... amazing job, well worth the work. I would be so happy with a desk like that. Great video.
My sentiments exactly. My dad taught my brothers and I the basics of ac & dc
electrical,carpentry both framing cabinetry form setting squaring forms
welding both gas / electrical I am a retired 45 year ASE certified auto and truck mechanic . I left home at the age of 19. I have shop at our home in South Louisiana. It's equipped with with 2 mig welders gas cutting/welding
12'' X 8'' metal band saw 3 drill presses wood miter table and compound miter saw jointed planer and countless other specialty tools. I'm what's referred to as a Jack of all trades, master of none. I share most of my
save earning career and home hobby/SS supplemental income to say just this. I would never covet anything or anyones possessions however I thoroughly enjoy watching Jimbos Garage
Tip from an old welder, wenn welding the legs, put a little string of weldingwire under the leg (between leg and table frame). Now weld the leg square on 1 site. Because of the welding heat, its going to pull on the metal and out of square. Remove the string of weldingwire and now you have a little bit of room to square the leg again. Without the weldingwire there is sometimes no room to push the leg away because it is already touching the frame. The wire is only 1mm or 1/25 " thick, but that is enough. 👍
Im no welder, but this project would be a great way to get a shit load of welds done. Another great video.
If you up the temp in the area you are working at to 80 degrees with low humidity it smoothes out and dries faster, giving it 10-15 minutes after initial coating taking a blow torch or heat gun 8-12 inches do a slow passover you'll get the crystal clear glass look. Wait 2-3 days between coats if possible and it'll harden up all the way, no scratches or settling. Took me many tops to get that technique.
Thanks for watching and your advise, Jimbo!
Nicely done👍 great job
This looks like one hell of a sturdy desk! Simple design but looks great in the end. I was a bit scared watching you gluing that large top without biscuits but it turned out great, even with a first epoxy experience! Great job sir! I'm subscribing!
Beautiful build. If you alternate your clamps top and bottom, you can cancel out some of the bowing and cupping during the glue up process. You are correct, the Titebond Ultimate will be stronger than the wood itself and will last for many decades....or longer.
Hello from Brazil, Nice work! My skills is poor, but i did a wall mounted design with no feet, using tempered glass on the table and two more shelves also fixed above, on the walls.
Its all wow....😊
I am watching this from India
Excellent job as always. That bartop epoxy definitely has a learning curve. Used it a few times and it gets easier with some experience. Been planning a few pieces with this style myself.
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Not that my opinion matters, just thought I'd say something. I've seen plenty of these "DIY" builds on RUclips, and have seen plenty of commenters saying things like, well if I had a huge workshop, and thousands of dollars worth of machinery, I too could build that... Hell I've been guilty of some of making some of those comments myself. Gotta say, as a builder myself (nowhere near your level sir), I'm kinda disappointed in myself, for being such a jealous hater. If you got the talent and tools, by all means - use 'em , and be proud of your accomplishments, as I'm sure you are. This was a magnificent build. The craftsmanship was of the highest quality. After delving deep, I've come to realize the acquisition of such tools didn't manifest out of thin air. It takes years of hard work and dedication, not to mention, a lot of money to invest in such endeavors. I know because I have spent a small fortune on my tools as well. Acquired over several years. It takes time to get all those tools. You buy 'em in increments. Not all at once. And before anyone tries to make this about race and privelege; let me tell you I'm a Latino guy who works 55+ hrs a week at my regular job. Which, by the way, has zero to do with woodwork.
Came out nice! If you look at a pine glue up again, look for southern yellow pine if you can. Not expensive and really looks great and is not as soft as white pine.
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Desk turned out real nice. Looks great in the room.
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AWSOME!!!!!! Great build sir!!!! The only thing I have to say is “roughing the passer, defense...15 yards, timeout!” 10:13
Nice Computer Table! if you alternate the clamps on top and bottom when gluing a panel together it will help with the buckling of the panel.
Inspirujący film. Piękne biurko. Świetne narzędzia, widać dużą wprawę posługiwania się nimi. Chyba masz olbrzymie doświadczenie. Ogląda się to z przyjemnością.
That was top grade build the only thing that I would suggest to you is put a couple coats of clear coat on the metal you'll be amazed at the Beauty of the natural metal when clear coat is applied over the bare metal
Хорошая работа! Побольше бы таких мастеров
you can use your corner clamp thing you made the top square on the legs too. be alot faster than messing with that triangle. or anywhere with the 90 degree angles like the shelf supports too
Finally found a steel supplier that was open to the public. Started on my own tonight, going to use this quarantine time to learn how to weld decently (hopefully)! Making an L-shaped desk, very similar to your construction
Классная идея и классное исполнение
Very good. But i think the metal look gives it a cool look
I'm from Russia! Good for you, beautifully and well all do!
Awesome Job. It's never over kill when it's for your own home...
Muy buen trabajo desde Argentina saludos
excelent greetings from Bolivia 🇧🇴
good job. always nice to see you combine metal and wood work.
by the way - the MAIN reason for using dowels or biscuits is NOT strength. wood glue when set is stronger than the wood, the wood will fail before the glue does. you use dowles or biscuits in a tabletop for alignment which reduces the need to plane and sand afterwards as you said. But also they help reduce buckling.
to stop or minimise buckling when gluing, alternate your clamps one up and one down across the length of the glue up and DONT rest the glu up on the bar of the clamp, let the dowels/biscuits align it. Those bessy clamps are so good that i suggest the buckling you had is because your edges aren't square so the minot inaccuracy multiplies when you glue several of them together, you can minimise this by alternating theborads up and downtoo.
nice result though.
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no problem - i'm the reverse jimbo - metal scares me but wood i understand :-)
Brandlin has it right. He just beat me to it.
Люблю смотреть на обработку металла, подписка!
Somebody pleeeeeeease!!!
Get this man a welding magnets.
When it comes to my soulmate of 24 years,she tells me to not worry about the mules just
load the wagon 😀 I watch your process with enthusiasm. One thing I noticed during the
tacking process was when you tacked from the top side opposite the 2x4 it appeared to
Pull the tubing up and the 2x4 became loose and settled into a more vertical position with the leg adjacent to said 2x4 ,causing me to think if you had clamped 2x4 to the leg vertical to the leg and tacked from the bottom next to the 2x4 that might have pulled it to the 2x4
utilized to attain the alignment desired
If there was an earthquake and I had a table like this in my house im sure I would hide under it.I bet that thing can hold a few tons of weight. Good job looks nice.
Very nice. I too get working really hard to make things level and plumb. I too would have done the same with the 2x4 jigs. To then have things not come out like it does in my head.
Again, thanks for sharing. I did see a few things that I can do better.
This video is really amazing and give me many ideas since I about to make simillar table and I was missing some steps, thanks a lot for sharing wish you good luck
I have learned a lot from you and have made a lot of home improvements by watching your videos. Great Job and thank you.
You do amazing work. Gorgeous stuff really. I do have a suggestion on thebwoodworking side though. Instead of having every clamp on the bottom like you did gluing the top, take half of the clamps and put themmon the top side. This way you have clamping pressure on the bottom and the top side. This will even out the clamping pressure over the length of the panel and greatly reduce, if not all but eliminate, the chance of a clamp induced cup to the panel. Just a small suggestion from a woodworker trying to learn metal. Also, the glue is definitely stronger than the wood. Biscuits/loose tenons (dominos) would offer 0 strength to the panel, however, they would be great for aligning those boards so that they're not so wonky during/after glue up. This would keep you from having to take that 1/4" off with the planer. Would be more like an 1/8" or so which obviously keeps more thickness to the top.
I really enjoy you channel and it has taught me a TON already. Keep up the good work. Love the older and new videos you produce!
La primera vez que veo este canal, y me quedo muy sorprendido por la cantidad de herramientas que tiene, un sueño para muchos hombres.
well done Sir, the table firmly standing
Real nice build Jimbo! If mamma is happy, everybody is.
Nice job Jimbo the desk looks great. Quick tip on your glue up when you clamp up a top like that put one clamp on the bottom then the next one on top and so on instead of all of them on the bottom like you done that helps with the bowing .
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Мужик, ты вообще МУЖИК!!! :)
This was a Nice little project. Looks Good.
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Fantastic... Very very very goooood!!!!! From Brazil
Good job jimbo
From Chile its great your job
Turned out great! I really like the top! Looks like a great surface that could take a lot of abuse!
That has a hell of a good job!!!
What a beautiful table/desk, like always you are the man Jimbo.....
Thanks for watching J.C. Jimbos garage!
The finished table looks very professional. Congrats.
Great job Jimbo I love combining metal and wood myself epically the wife cause most of my builds are for her.
I am blessed to have a now 15 year design build relationship with a local big league minor league college wood and aluminium bat mtg company in Baton Rouge La. I have approximately 15 specialty machines that I designed built and insta!!ed in one of their 14 buildings they now occupy. It has been the ride of a lifetime for this now retired mechanic welder wood worker of 71 years
Looks great, the spray paint and wire brush is a nice tip, I’m going to try it.
Really nice job, and gotta love the metal and wood look. A jointer would have helped you, and construction lumber had a high moisture content so usually not the best choice for furniture because could be prone to shrinking, splitting, warping, etc. but dam that looks nice and I'm sure you'll enjoy it for years...
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Very nice! Thanks! Bruno from Curitiba - Brazil
One word, excellent !
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Que bonito trabajo. Saludos de Guadalajara, Mexico.
Awesome project Jimbo. I loved your honesty in how you tackle projects, just figure it out as you go. That’s how I like to work too, and I think I’ve learned more by just pick up tools and adapting to challenges than sitting around for hours drawing plans, and still having to adapt when things don’t go as planned. Cheers man.
Wow! Looks amazing. I enjoyed the video :) I'm looking into making one but I don't have the room for all the tools and stuff.Starting small and going to work my way up.
If you end up doing a glue-up like you did on the top, try using some cauls next time. They'll help you keep them flat easier.
That looks awesome.
Gostaria muito que no Brasil tivéssemos acesso a ferramentas de tão boa qualidade como vcs tem, belo trabalho parabéns.
Way to go man, great shop. Ps: face glueing boards like that, you don't need biscuits or dominoes. Next time, if there is a next time lol, put angle irons top and bottom across boards and clamp them ten will keep boards flat, put top on the top angle iron that contacts wood surface to avoid staining. Buckling generally occurs because of over tightening of clamps, just tighten to squeeze out. "I did not read the instructions" hahaha! Looks great mate.
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Back working the welds Jimbo!! One piece flow it and weld all on one leg then move to the next...
Great video....as always like how you introduce "Murphy's Law" and try to deal with it and keep going on. Thank u for allowing us to watch & learn!
Great craftsmanship !
you have likable personality Uncle Jimbo Well done. I am jealous
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Beautiful desk. Makes me want to rebuild my office desk
Thanks for watching, Do it!!! Jimbos garage!
Amazing Job, live and learn my friend. Still came out very nice!
Love how you get stuff done.
Came out absoluetly awesome! I wan to make one now. That light wood with the poly against the clearcoat steal looks great!
looks good
Sir, I want to say that you make such a hard job look easy. That takes time, skill, and dedication! You should be proud of yourself!!!
Excellent work done well
I put the like every before I watch.
The only that I do this.. Just because is the best!! Congrats!!!
Looks great Jim. Thinking of making my entertainment center similar to this.
Wow, so good. Very nice.
biscuits are for alignment assist. they don't add much by way of strength.
Beautiful
Love the metal wood mix nice color for the finish!!
Looks very good
Wow that came out pretty nice amazing job jimbo
What a beaut, awesome job Jimbo! thanks for filming it.
Awesome! Loved the spray paint advice
Awesome ! Greatest video ever seen on RUclips! Thanks dude
That turned out awesome Jimbo, I need to make something similar for my office. Thanks for sharing the video!!!!
very good this project for My workshop
You have one of the best workshops/man caves I have seen love your videos mate.
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