Mahogany/Steel Computerdesk [SCRATCHBUILD] Dreamhack Summer Masters Winner

[Huskybongs]

Gonna use the fans on the starboard side as exhausts and on the portside as intakes with the 3 extra fans underneath the radiator giving a slight negative pressure. It's a bit of trial and error though so might be switching around the fans a bit. That being said passively things will cool and a tremendous amount of heat is being expelled with the water so I'm not that worried to be fair. Will be interesting to see what kind of temps I'll be getting

 

[JayGee]

Use of "starboard" and "portside" hints that the build might be somehow inspired by classic riva speedboats, certainly the build reminds me of those beautiful boats with their elegant lines, exquisite wood work and complimentary metal accents:

I love those boats and I love this build.

 

[Huskybongs]

Oh yes I've mentioned this in other blogs actually. That's a beautiful aquarama 63

Yeah during my younger years I traveled a lot in northern Italy, Switzerland and France and I was certainly influenced a bit along the way Seen quite a few of these boats in the skin

 

[Huskybongs]

Tommorow assembly starts. I got my 27 chromed parts home. FINALLY

Let the games begin

 

[Huskybongs]

It is time then. Second to last assembly. This time every single thing will be built into the table with the exception of putting in the water. Then disassembly one final time prep the parts and go to town and hope the end result was worth it.

With that being said here we go.

I just love how nickel plating looks and feels. I had to clean them up a bit with window cleaner but they were looking fantastic in general






Starting from scratch again pretty much

1 LEG!





Had to change the type of bolt for aesthetic reasons




2 legs now and some interior panels



Time for the radiator grills


Portside





And Starboard



Installing the big ones



With the special fasteners



Also put in a bit of a cheat to make sure they didn't sag at all. Screw wont be visible



Key mechanism installed




Had to cut a hole out of the back panel to feed motherboard cables to the screen etc. This won't be visible either




Painted the reinforcement



All chromed parts in place









Key in place as well as the usb/audio plate also that nickel plated. Key as previously made from flaming birch. 5 or 6 layers of 2 component varnish to not stain the wood.



I like the color scheme



Monitor back on with the glass



A lot of photos. Outside is pretty much finished except the wood needs to get that nanosanding done to gloss it up a bit more



















Short video for your viewing

 

[chroniclard]

What a fantastic build.

 

[marco.da.man]

great desk, well worth his time

 

[Huskybongs]

For those who liked the hinges here's how they ended up, I'm pretty pleased with them

 

[Dan103]

Amazing desk build .

 

[novaenough]

Wow, absolutely lovely!

 

[Huskybongs]

Time for a small update. Parts will start to get installed tommorow

Anyways let's get going, repainted and extended the black to now have any wood show in bad places from the outside



We made a part for the ethernet and power cable. This way you can easily connect and disconnect the cables with 4x m8 bolts. Obviously this gets powdercoated too



This will hold a lot of weight if need be. No chance of power cable coming loose



Pumps arrived, remade the stands for them as well. You'll see how they're mounted very soon (Mainframe m7 )



Hinges mounted



Love how it reflects everything



Testing the 2 component epoxy glue on some other glass. Supposedly an area of 56 square centimeters should hold 7000kg of tension force.



Protecting the wood and hinges from the glue if we get it wrong and use too much. I recommend this specific frozen pizza package for this





Wide shot with the hinges in. No picture with the glass glued because i'll let it cure overnight just to make sure

 

[Huskybongs]

Got the hinges finally glued and glass works I gotta say though this was by far the hardest part of the build for us. Like really time consuming and really challenging. Took 3 people to mount this thing and figuring out how to do these hinges was a pain but I'm so happy it's done



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This is fully enough so you can reach the components if need be








Parts getting installed. The pumps the Psu and the 360 rad are now bolted down. With the first official hardline pipe as well



Bad picture but here's how I'm getting through the wood, There's no joint at all actually



The pumps.

 

[Gimpymoo]

Words do not do this justice.

Amazing work.

 

[Huskybongs]

Not a lot left no, just gotta get the waterjet to cut out my pipe strengthener bits and get those powdercoated and final assembly can commence. Here's a small sneakpeak

 

[Dan103]

said before and say it again amazing work !

 

[Huskybongs]

Finally got cables done. Done a few special ones like feeding the pumps and the fans on the same cable with 5 volts going to the fans and 12 to the pumps, Installing all of these bad boys next week



There's plenty of future expansionroom. Got myself another row of connectors





The pipes are done as well but they will go out and in one more time so you'll get more pictures after



Actually sleeved the cables outside the pc as well

 

[Mcthommo]

Looking amazing but the ocd in me would have smoothed the hinge welds out more before chroming but that is just me as the rest of the build is at such a high level it would niggle

 

[Huskybongs]

Looking amazing but the ocd in me would have smoothed the hinge welds out more before chroming but that is just me as the rest of the build is at such a high level it would niggle

Thanks for the feedback! It's a shame you dislike it, I myself would in hindsight have done them differently. That being said they had to be at the chromer a certain date and it was somehow overlooked. I hope there are parts of the build that can still be enjoyed though. I suggest waiting for it's completion and critique it as a whole. I think it will look decent when completed but that's just one mans opinion. When I get to the next deskbuild this tragedy will be fixed.

 

[Mcthommo]

I don't dislike them- the design is epic but the weld looks a bit rough compared to the rest of the amazing build

 

[LuckyBenski]

I don't dislike them- the design is epic but the weld looks a bit rough compared to the rest of the amazing build

Agreed - it's the only tiny bit of non-perfect in a jaw dropping project!

Next desk build? :O