Rotating Desk

Good morning, everyone.

Today I’m going to introduce you to something a little bigger than usual.

For the story: Before I moved out during the Christmas holidays, I lived in a student residence. The rooms were very small, about 18 square meters.

When I started studying I knew I was going to stay in this apartment for about 3 years then I decided to arrange it as I wanted. In order to optimize the space I then made a rotating desk that allows me to close it when I wasn’t using it.

Before starting its creation, I designed it in 3D with Solid Works software. This allowed me to determine the amount of planks I had to buy . So I bought 3 wood planks of OSB . This type of wood is super interesting because it can be worked easily and it is super resistant.

To make this desk you will need a router, a circular saw, an electric sander and a screwdriver.

As can be seen in the photo, the lower part are built with several pieces.

The lower part of the desk is therefore composed of 5 elements, the first 3 are supports for objects and the 2 other are the structure of the shelf. In order to have a solid office, I created an assembly.

As shown in the photo, I make long holes using the circular saw with a dimension equal to half width of the board. I then made this cut in the 3 different boards.

I then made the same shapes inside the 2 boards that form the structure. When the 3 boards are nested in their housing, I used the screwdriver to create small holes to lock the boards with screws.

To give it a nice shape, I cut the corners and used the wood chipper to chamfer the edges.
In order to increase the solidity in the place where the top board is going to be, then I installed a large copper pipe that crosses the 3 boards.(see photo)

The bottom shelf being finished I then went to the main board.

To make the main board I used a complete plate of OSB wood. Like the other part, I then make small shapes in each corner and use the wood chipper to create an angle on the edges of the board.

I then used the electric sander to sand its entire surface to make the board soft. So I used different grains from 120 to 800. When there were no more defects on the board to the touch, I cleaned all the dust and applied a varnish to protect the wood.

The next step is the creation of the feet of the board. The first foot should be able to accept rotation and should be attached to the lower shelf. The second foot must reach the ground and allow to slide without being constrained. To make this second foot I reused feet present on an old table . The foot was too tall so I used a metal saw for cut it to the right size. When it was finished I installed small pieces of plastic piece and then add felt.

To create the foot present on the lower part I used two large pieces of wood of the same size, one hung on the lower part and another hung on the board. To make the rotation I then drilled the center of these pieces of wood with the size of a 25 mm tube. I positioned these two pieces of wood on their respective locations and glued them and screwed them. Then I cut a copper pipe of 10 cm that I placed on the block present on the lower part. Like it protrudes from my first block, I came to deposit my top board with the other piece of wood.

That’all for today, I hope you liked this tutorial, if of course you have any questions do not hesitate to ask me in comment. I’d be happy to answer that.

See you soon!