Concrete sounds cool on top of looking neat. The wood also looks nice. I just have 2 50’s/60’s steel desks which you can find cheap if you shop the surplus market but I don’t solder on them. So do you have something like RE Store available?
What about designing the table with a top that can be easily remade/resurfaced/renovated/rewhatever? In the lab, we had solid wooden tables in the organic lab (ancient ones, black painted with many scorch marks but the substance lasted), newer formica-topped ones where the scorch marks were more visible, and in the fume hoods there were ceramic tiles. How sensitive is the deployment to burn/scorch/chemical marks and assorted stains?
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How hard does a pourable surface need to be to dance on it?
That’s badass, why don’t we have one here?
(I have so much work to do on this building, the gutting is almost done though. But before I run all new electrical, hang drywall, install a real floor, carve out some windows, etc I’d like to simply have a place to work without the dog howling or my SO getting annoyed BT conf calls.)
Perhaps that why I am leaning towards hard wood–when you scorch it, oxidize the hell out of the scorch and sand, right?
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Yup. Doesn’t that sound doable?
(Random thought. What about coating it with some sol-gel ceramic nanocomposite?)
Holy crap, they use that type of coating on Bugatti Veyrons!?
Oh? How does it come I didn’t know that? Link?
Doesn’t that grill look like a veyron? I guess they don’t actually say it in the article…
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I remember corian being noted as being repairable, you can sand down effected areas and I’m having trouble finding the self repairing mycoprotein material I read about some time ago…
Probably better going with some reclaimed wood or iron, the ‘patterning’ wear and tear can be part of the look.
Do you have access to a forge?
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Sadly I see the Seattle one has closed. I got my desks which are in desperate need of decluttering from the now long gone Boeing surplus store after I was ordered to start working virtual. But the city and county here both have surplus stores/auctions, the UW has a store open to the public once a week which is where I got my current chair. So check around there should be something.
So to keep from getting The Donald. Should I clear up my clutter desk and move all my warhammer and other tabletop related work over to it? So I have better light and can watch movies while working?
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Don’t you think for a lineup like that either concrete or some slab of metal is your wisest choice?
Pretty maple countertops are pretty, and pretty hard for most applications, but soldering? Do you want to spend all your time sanding out the various bizarre stains it sounds like you will cause?
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Metals are conductive. For electronic works such a desktop, if well-grounded, will have the advantage of ESD mitigation. But wouldn’t the conductivity be a problem when the loosely laid out boards will get powered up? Wouldn’t a barrier layer (a cardboard sheet, at least) be called for?
Don’t the stains add character?
Does the one, who dies with the least-cluttered, least-stained tabletop, win?
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Does anybody else wonder, sometimes when this thread goes quiet, if there is a super secret message-conversation happening without you somewhere in the bbs-verse?
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Have you considered engaging Nicholson Baker as a singer? He sings Irish drinking songs while vacuuming.
“I vacuumed several rooms before a dinner party last week and found myself singing Irish drinking songs loudly as I worked.”
How i would love to hear that! Hmmm, would i?
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Couldn’t it be worse? Could that super-secret conversation be about you?
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Should we just kill people rather than develop better methods of treatment and incarceration? Don’t I need a better sounding board than the person in the thread?
Person, he’s a person, not a twerp. I’m too snark-flexive right now.
Did you know that one of the first things a new in-law is told in my mother’s extended family is that if you leave the room for any reason, they WILL start talking about you?
Do you think there’s any connection with that information and the fact that I only visit once or twice a year?
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