Follow up - new huion monitor for drawing + no cables visible :D

[JimmieeB]

just updated my set up and manged it so all my cables are hidden!!! just need a new desk now but still can not find one I like.

any recommendations on a desk?

thought about buying a slab of timber off ebay and varnishing or casting with some resin and rgb on the fence about this!

 

[SpyderTracks]

just updated my set up and manged it so all my cables are hidden!!! just need a new desk now but still can not find one I like.

any recommendations on a desk?

thought about buying a slab of timber off ebay and varnishing or casting with some resin and rgb on the fence about this!

Very nice!

What's your approx budget for a desk, what kind of ballpark as as I'm sure you know, it varies enormously?

 

[AgentCooper]

As a new convert to RGB, I'd say you have enough RGB there...whilst, some say you can never have too much RGB, in a space that size, you can have too much

 

[SimonPeters116]

thought about buying a slab of timber off ebay and varnishing or casting with some resin and rgb on the fence about this!

I tried a local furniture maker who specialises in this sort of thing. For him to source and make it, I was expecting to pay something in the region of £1000+. However, beyond his initial call back I never got any replies from further enquiries, through phone calls (straight to "leave a message after the tone", which I did), texts, emails, messages through his site messaging system. No response what-so-ever.
I needed a new desk, my 25 year old Argos special was just too small for the ultrawide monitor, etc.

I ended up going to a local custom kitchen maker, who made me a custom desk to fit pefectly into the space I have. That also cost roughly a grand, but they were perfectly happy to make my desk for me. It isn't a slab of timber with resin casting or anything fancy, just highly compressed chipboard in a nice timber style veneer. It's in three pieces, a base unit for my new computer, with slide out keyboard drawer, the actual desktop which just sits on top of the base, and the shelf unit behind my monitor.

My new desk and computer set-up

Well, after quite a wait, due to being mucked around by a couple of companies I tried first, I've at last got myself a new computer desk. This is to replace the old Argos self assembly desk I bought at least 25 years ago. There's nothing wrong with it, but there just isn't enough space in and on...

www.pcspecialist.co.uk

 

[SimonPeters116]

*cough* Nearly a grand for some chipboard?????? Granted it looks nice but....a grand? For chipboard? I am out of words...I need to go and lie down

I had too lie down as well

It wasn't easy finding anyone to make it, I don't have the tools or skills.
Several places wanted more, and it wouldn't be made to measure, just a standard size.
Other places just wouldn't. The cabinet maker never replied, and still hasn't.
Basically there was only one place who could and would. It cost almost a grand

I'd already budgeted for a grand plus, after looking at the cabinet makers web site. I saw his "slab of timber with resin casting" type pieces.
What he does is, saw the slab along the middle, put the two pieces into a casting mould, sawn edges outwards, then fills the resulting space in the middle with molten glass. Obviously there's a lot more preperation involved, and a lot of finishing off to make a nice piece of furniture. It isn't just "saw it in half". What I had been thinking of was, three parallel cuts, diagonally through the slab. Turn one large piece over and marry up the two shorter cuts, leaving a V shaped space at one end, for the desk top. The two smaller pieces would make the visible end leg, also with a V shaped space between them. That would make what he called "a waterfall".The rest of the desk wouldn't be that visible anyway. and the resin/glass parts would be great for RGB. However, I waited, messaged, emailed, phoned, many times, over several months, to no effect. When I tried the kitchen maker and they could and would, I had the grand ready, so, when the price was a grand, I just sighed and paid.

 

[JimmieeB]

*cough* Nearly a grand for some chipboard?????? Granted it looks nice but....a grand? For chipboard? I am out of words...I need to go and lie down

That is an insane amount of money! for what you got. as long as you are happy :S