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Building My Kid's a Dream Gaming Desk

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What happens here

The remaining acacia wood is cut into 6-inch wide strips, which will form the side legs of the desk. To achieve a visually continuous grain pattern around the legs, each piece is cut with a 45-degree mitered edge on the table saw. These mitered pieces are then glued together to form a hollow, square-profile leg. To prevent movement during gluing, the pieces are flipped over, taped along the seams, glue is applied, and then they are rolled together and clamped tightly with a ratchet strap. Small brad nails can be used to temporarily hold pieces in place before clamping. This process is repeated for both side legs.

Goal: Wood pieces are cut with 45-degree mitered edges and glued to form the hollow, square-profile side legs of the desk, simulating a continuous grain pattern.

Tools and materials

  • Angle Gauge (Digital Protractor)
  • Brad Nailer (Optional)
  • Masking Tape
  • Ratchet Strap
  • Safety Glasses
  • Table Saw
  • Wood Glue

What they say

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go i got all these pieces cut up at six inches i'm gonna do the side legs here we will do miters on the corners 45 degrees we'll just glue them up put a little brad nail to hold in place and then clamp them tight it's going to look so much better than just a basic butt joint but kind of tread with your own skill set i'm going to cut these up real quick on a miter throw them up together learning a lot of things i hope you guys like this stuff make sure you check out my patreon account i have extended versions of my videos of stuff that doesn't make it to these youtube channels that are 18 minutes these are like hour long unedited stuff director's cut stuff that you can take and uh because people are always like you talk too fast well there's extra and extended stuff and be excited to help support this channel and i keep making stuff with you guys let's go we're getting ready to glue up these miters they could be a little tricky glued up because you know they're gonna move around so the best way i found this to work is if you flip them over and put tape along all these seams flip it over again now you'll be able to roll it close together once that's in place with glue glue we'll use a ratchet strap around it to clamp the pressure evenly together and keeping sure that it's straight and not you know caddy wampus out that's not a real word huh pretty good at making importance all right so these puppies have dried overnight now we have to spice them up a little bit being a gaming desk you got to make it look like a gaming desk which means a lot of leds what i want to do is i want

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