$700 Smart Height Adjustable Walnut Office Desk

today we build a beautiful smart height adjustable office table from walnut wood enjoy this christmas i wanted to give something special to my wife so i decided to craft my very first table top from european walnut for her i didn't have a circular saw back then so i used my jigsaw and the fence to get one straight side per board with one side done it was easy to get enough apparel face using my table saw before gluing them together later i also hand-planed the sides again just to make sure they were nicely jointable next my favorite part planning until all boards look good as [ __ ] and are the same height [Music] after that was done i arranged the boards to my liking and marked the faces i want to connect later i also alternated the crane just for the memes i think the arrangement came out pretty nicely glueing up took a bit of experimenting around i clamped various supporting boards to the tabletop as well as applying pressure punctually with some more sacrificial pieces [Music] and to my surprise honestly it turned out damn nicely everything was really flat and connected properly [Music] then after finally taking the dive of buying a circular saw was about time i cut the board to its final dimensions and proceeded to assemble the full metal height adjustable base which only took me about 15 minutes there was a quick build back inside i checked if the tabletop fit the table and if all electronics worked properly i wanted to add some smart features to the office desk so i decided to buy a cable hub with included usb slots as well as a dimmable light and after figuring out the proper positions of the hardware i went over to fusion360 and designed the templates for routing which i cut out using my shapoko cnc i never did template routing before so i went to safe route and tested it out on a piece of mdf before ruining my warner board then i checked if my templates fit the dimensions of my hardware and in case it didn't i fine adjusted the mdf parts with my file until i was satisfied then i created a quick plate extension for my palm router from a thin scrap piece of red teak and did another test cut which worked wonderfully back to tabletop i removed blue squeeze out with my japanese scanner and then proceeded to present both sides with an 80 grit i really like how it looks thus far but i had yet another little something in mind i really wanted to try out for the first time so thus far that's good i never tried using epoxy but i bought some from a german manufacturer called apodex as well as pigment paste black one and i'm going to give it a shot we are going to fill up all the holes and crack that are still there um from the wood with black epoxy and i hope everything works out well it's not much of a layer just a tiny little one for each and every crack or hole or whatsoever so i think everything is going to turn out nicely hopefully at first i gotta tape everything up because epoxy is quite um liquid you could say viscous and it lasts to a trip out of each and every crack which is still there so i need to tape everything up nicely and then i'm gonna let gravity do the work up until everything hardens out let's go the epoxy is a simple two to one mix so i took 10 grams of resin and 5 grams of hardener and stirred it together with a pigment paste using a scrap piece of wood never did epoxy before so i played it safe and filled the holes and cracks on the back side of my tabletop before getting to the main top later so i think that's about it for most cracks on the downside on the back side i'm going to see how everything hardens out and i'm trying to not breathe anything in because i heard that epoxy can be very very dangerous to your health over time that's better so i'm going to try and save my life as best as i can yeah i hope everything works out nicely and that everything is going to harden as i expect it to be those were only like 15 grams um yeah that's not much next they rolled around and i tried to remove the overflowed cured epoxy no idea what the best way was to do so so i tried sanding with a 40 grit so i encountered the problem here i thought that the epoxy was already dried completely over and out but it didn't seem to be that way on the thicker part it's probably because i'm having my workshop basically outside and yeah the temperatures are pretty low at the moment they are above 10 degrees celsius but still it didn't harden out completely yet so i got a lot of splatter here so i need to um let it harden for a bunch of hours more probably also this part right here with the thick epoxy layer and i noticed that if i press my finger into here i can still see my yeah my fingerprint so that should have been an indicator but well the more you learn so instead of removing the epoxy i fill parts of the visible top of the table with epoxy too two days later i tried sanding again which took me about 30 minutes the result looked great but the way to get there was just not optimal so i went a different route for the visible top and use my block plane to flatten the epoxy parts first and then started to sand this took me not even 10 minutes and turned out wonderfully way better and more efficient than just sanding now it's getting really serious i use double-sided tape to fix my templates in place and then i proceeded with my palm router as well as chiseling out the corners until the lamp fit [Music] next came cutting out the rectangular hole for the cable hub i marked the middle point of the rectangle and after taking some measurements i drew fitting one around the center point next i drilled some quick holes such that i can get a proper cut down with my jigsaw nice fingers crossed oh god it fits perfectly this one fits so damn well holy [ __ ] for even more cable management i wanted to also include a cable grommet so i cut a template again on my cnc as well as the one at this to seal the hole then it was off to routing again oh boy oh god i really messed this one up big time yesterday but hey it wouldn't be wood if you couldn't fix it somehow so let's go well i guess that's back to the drawing board bigger and more stable template bigger walnut disc and after a metric fuckton of double-sided tape later yes there we go that worked out way better that looks seriously smooth very nice and now we are going to make use of this um round drill bit once again to try to put a hole into here i actually bought a new set with a bigger hole and i hope it's going to work out the original drill hole was off center now so i couldn't get a proper grip on the wood easy fix though by using c8 glue and a scrap piece of wood i was then able to drill a perfectly centered hole it fits in very nice and snug very satisfied with that looking really good i'm so glad that i redid the palm router cut and yeah all that's really have to do is to bring it onto the same height as the table so let's go i thought this one would take me longer but it was literally a matter of two minutes to send the walnut down with a 40 grit ah this is gonna be so satisfying ah the sound of it the sound it makes ah awesome looks so good and all that's left were some finishing touches with a six millimeter radius round over bit i managed to give the table and all inserts a refined look and the 45 degree chamfer bit for the front side snuck really nicely into the live edge i left on the piece [Music] and next came about two hours of very intimate time between me and my random orbital center for each iteration i used a pencil to mark when i could move on to the next grid starting everything off with an 80 grit then 120 a 160 240 and finally a 320. i also centered all sides very carefully with my random orbital as well as by hand same for the inserts sanding takes really really long but the better and more carefully you sand the more you find your final piece is going to look so always make sure to send a lot really doesn't matter if it takes a lot of time as long as your piece is going to look good at the very end and finally at the moment i was waiting for using matte hard wax oil to really make the wood pop and holy [ __ ] it pops so got them hard the epoxy looks damn beautiful in combination with the european walnut [Music] [Music] last thing to do was to create a cable slot for the lamp attach the table top to the height adjustable stand and fix the hardware in place and then it was finally time for the big reveal [Music] i am so satisfied with how my first tabletop turned out it is functional it looks absolutely stunning and the epoxy details really make it shine but most importantly i learned so many new things along the way by just doing this one project if you did enjoy what you have seen today why not subscribe to the channel and leave a like also what could have done better make sure to also leave some feedback down there in the comments below i would really love to hear your constructive criticism and now i'll let you enjoy a few more shots of the table please stay safe and i'll see you in the next video have flambe day ciao [Music] [Music] you