Making a Desk

One of my hobies is wood- working. Currenlty I am making a new desk out of maple.

First, I started making the top, cut 6 boards to a~ 6" wide by 60" long, joined them together with glue and biscuits. Once this dried, I joined another 4" wide board to cap the edges, also joined with glue and biscuits. Even with the biscuits, the maple boards were not completely flat, so I spent a lot of time with my bench plane leveling everything out, then many more hours sanding to 300 grit.





Once the top was done, I made the legs and the skirt. The skirt is 6" tall, and sized so that the top will overhang by ~1". The legs were made by staking 3 boards 3" wide by 1" thick to make a 3x3 leg. The leg was then cut to expose a tenon which will be acepted by the skirt, and all corners were chamfered.





Next step was to start the drawers. Since I was running low on maple, and had some extra poplar, the drawers are made of poplar, but will have a maple face. The drawers are constructed with blind dovetails and a 1/4 inch dado to accept the bottom panel.



Still to come will be the keyboard drawer, front panels for drawers, dividers that will hold the drawers slides, final assembly, lots of sanding, staining and finnishing. Hopefully 2 more weeks and it'll be upstairs in the office.