DIY Modern Plywood Desk - Plan Available

In this video I design and build a modern #desk from one sheet of #plywood. I used my new 5 ft x 10 ft #cnc to cut the whole project out in about an hour. There are free plans available for my patrons or you can buy them from my shoppe.
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[@wesderer]

Loved, please make a series of furniture made of 1 sheet, chairs, shelves, drawers, beds, benches, hahaha

[@sgsax]

That's what I call flat-pack furniture. Looks quite simple and elegant. Thanks for sharing!

[@GourabX]

The miniature model really helped understanding the process. 😌

[@rhysstatham7407]

Excellent the only thing I would do different is the top putting a tapper edge which I think would be visually more appealing .

[@christiferray5605]

You could use the smaller table as a monitor riser on your desk.

[@thedanalcantara]

The 1/4 scale model was really helpful!

[@AB-nu5we]

Love the design. A little Scandinavian Mod there. Must be in the DNA. Great CNC project.

Hello my friend. The biggest thing is always to do innovative work and help people with ideas. Unless you try out the innovations, you cannot learn something new. And you are always working to teach innovations. And you always produce innovative studies and ideas. Thank you for sharing. See you. greetings.

[@heyimamaker]

I was thinking it would look nice with a chamfer on the bottom top sheet of plywood. But thinking about it, the angle would be impossible to do with a normal router bit. So now that I had some time to think, this is perfection 😁

[@rays.5800]

With all the at home learning their is a big demand for at home school desks scaling it down could be a great Business!

[@mjdthemaker7574]

I really like the design.

[@clydedecker765]

What's not to like about a great design? Love it. Glad to see you're back making videos more regularly. With home schooling families, more than one of these would look great in bedrooms or family rooms.

[@danielvaldez3778]

Nice! Just need to get a 30 dollar sheet of plywood and a 2000 dollar CNC!

[@t17389z]

I work at a granite factory with a 20ft by 15ft CNC machine, I may try to recreate this out of granite at work using epoxy to fix everything together.

[@johndelarosa3197]

This is fantastic. Thank you. I've never seen that machine before . I'm building 2 tables and want to try the legs something like your model and not just boring.

[@kennisbutnerjr3947]

Compression bits are awesome for cutting plywood!

[@jasonbailey9139]

On your idea for modification: You could save some sheets of plywood, by doing just the face piece as one solid piece and doing the second layer as multiple pieces .

[@planefixxer]

You hooked me as a subscriber with this great build! One tip I'd like to pass on: Use a trim router with a flush cut bit to cut your tabs out. Much faster than the hammer and chisel and provides a nice clean finish cut.

[@Wildevis]

That is reaally a lovely table and the designs can be used anywhere

[@alanscrivner1881]

Enjoyed the concept, execution and final product. Thrifty and stylish. I love the genius of almost no waste at the end of the project. If I can make a suggestion . . . at 11:33, I used to get those "bumps" with my CNC. I learned from Mark Lindsay how to use ramps, leads and a final last pass to avoid them completely. It takes a tiny bit more of CNC time, but you save on the sanding, so I think it's a wash. In the software, it only takes about 4 seconds and 3 clicks.

[@Everyday_Foreman]

You could do some edge banding that would help the looks of the plywood. That would have allowed for finishing on all sides

[@thedraw9681]

Dowel holes drilled in the legs to put the two pieces together allows for proper registration of the parts. Just a tip excellent work.

[@mountainviewturning5319]

Great looking table

[@MikeTheMaker1]

I’m really feeling the angles on the legs.

[@mlubecke]

Love the design and the 1 sheet of plywood concept. Very cool project.

[@cjsmith]

Nice Design 👍

[@tonyh5429]

Pretty cool

[@FredMcIntyre]

Turned out great Linn, awesome job! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks Fred!

[@MakerCuisine]

Beautiful design, great you could get that out of one sheet of plywood

[@ericwycoff1399]

What an amazing desk!

[@corynardin]

I love everything about this project.

[@HVS.11.11]

Wow looks clean and modern. Reminds me of the cute plywood furniture ikea has but like the nice stuff lol

[@mrteecee]

Very nice one, thanks for sharing! My opinions: You should round the edges with a router. (I know that was a 24hr challenge with planning and machinery!) My first thought was to have 3 piece legs, so the middle could be holding the upper rails. But then when you added the lower rails I got the idea that You could do bigger brackets for supporting the tabletop and the top rails and also ending at the lower rails, so it'll help with the alignment for those.

[@mclkev]

Loved this video. Seeing your design process and getting your thought process is really nice. It was fun to see the small scale compared to the full scale

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks Kevin!

[@njrworkshop]

Well done Linn! I really like the design and the constraints you worked within.

[@pauldevey8628]

Your son has grown so much!

[@GrahamDallas]

Nice clean design, great project Linn

[@johnbailey4664]

Great simple design ,shame we don’t all have CNC machines

[@darbinorvar]

you don't need a cnc machine to build this

[@robertturner1550]

Your videos are great!

[@kazolar]

I just got the omer gun with the plastic nails, looking forward to using it more with the CNC and more specifically with outdoor projects as they would be great in place of brads in combination with glue. Don't love upcut bits for edge finish on plywood, I've been using a compression bit, and it leaves no tear out -- especially on plywood. Yea, 40in/min is painfully slow and the chip load is way too low, you may actually end up leaving burn marks going that slow. Love doing a CNC project which uses 1 sheet of plywood -- especially adding rabbets and cut ins for ease of assembly since it's so easy to add that and it makes assembly dead simple.

[@shaunfelton2046]

Beautiful table! And I must say, I’ve never seen such a clean cnc during a cut!

[@georgeakin9312]

Nice design for the desk, This would also be a nice design for a lap table. Like using while setting in a bed or on the floor. Make a small one for that reason. Great Job.

[@brucelee3388]

With a bit more work, that design would make an excellent folding desk/table. Laminate up 4 'solid' corner blocks (or use solid wood) for the top rails to join to, round over one corner on each leg at the top and use a bolt/lag screw thru the leg into (or thru) the block for the pivot, the leg angles would make it lock up without needing any extra hardware (unless you were using it for something really vigorous). Depending on how flat you want it to pack down to, you could offset the legs slightly - make one set wider by 2x the leg thickness - and move the leg braces to the outside edge of the legs.

[@mildlemon7866]

Well done Linn! 😊👍

[@davidshearer567]

Very nice! That's a very sleek design for desk! I imagine you could use the smaller version as a printer table. You could place a stack of paper underneath so you keep things less cluttered. I made something similar for my CPAP out of a 2x4 last year. Now I want a fancy stand like yours! 😂👍 Thanks for the inspiration!

[@cassvirgillo3395]

Hello Linn & Family, Nice looking desk, the angled legs really make it. I get the feeling the CNC is going to get a lot of use. We had two 100 degree day's the 15th and 16th, low 80's then into the 70's by the weekend, with a chance of rain. Best regards from Oregon, C.

[@21imcute]

❤️it! baby is so big already! ❤️❤️

[@dtovee]

Thanks, another great video :)

[@user-qg6fy4yp8t]

Beautiful design!

[@Cornelius429]

I LOVE this idea, making something out of 1 or 2 bit or sheets of wood.

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks Cornelius! Me too :)

[@Matt0x00]

The mini desk would also make a neat monitor stand!

[@frankorona1]

Wonderful job!!

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Nice looking desk Linn! Thanks for sharing the video with us!💖👌👍😎JP

[@jwilliamdawson]

The rare video where the title undersells the coolness and complexity of the project. Affordable-large-scale-1-sheet-plywood-24-hour-CNC desk= "Modern Plywood Desk"

[@darbinorvar]

Haha love this

[@Qrtuop]

Love your accent and your work!

[@greyareaRK1]

This is how Ikea got started...maybe. I love the little mock-up[ desk.

[@skewedmaker]

Great design and look to this project. I would like to see a design for a kid's desk, too!

[@grandn8646]

Another lovely build. Looks great.

[@grandn8646]

Plus you know i realized just how smart you really are to have learned how to program and use that new cnc machine.

[@chelseapw]

Who hoo a female maker... subscribed!

[@uibsen]

Great project !!

[@FritsvanDoorn]

Wonderful. Thank you. I really liked this video.

[@reforzar]

Very cool. I knew you’d come up with some great cnc projects.

[@garrettducat5769]

I was curious to see if it would fit on a 5x5 sheet. Not only does it fit, but it fits better and with almost zero waste (including the brackets and extra stretchers). You don't end up with that chunk of waste between your legs and the stretchers. Part of the efficiency lies in that a 60x28 top is just a 28" rip on a sheet of baltic birch.

[@trout4bait549]

@Garrett Ducat Thank you for that! I immediately wondered about all the extra space between and around the pieces, and if it couldn't be "compressed" to fit on a 5' x 5' sheet *with all the rectangular pieces ripped on the table saw - including laying out the legs so that the tapers were opposed, forming yet another rectangle, requiring just a single pass on a tapering sled to separate them. The only waste left for most of those processes would then be sawdust.

[@marlawhite3682]

very cool!!! great design!!!!

[@makethepart]

Fantastic Video and Project!

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks Cory :)

[@CharityBuilds]

Nice! Awesome seeing this on CNC. I just built a very similar table out of a sheet of plywood as well so it'll be cool to recreate mine on cnc.

[@MFunkibut]

Looking forward to the child-size version. Challenge yourself and see if you can get two desks out of a four by eight sheet?

[@darbinorvar]

Could probably do that... or one desk and two chairs :)

[@ltlima]

First of all I loved the shape of this desk. My questions are 2: the size of the sheet of plywood may varies depending the country you are, so, what's the size of yours? And the second question is about the angle of the legs, could you tell the angle you used?

[@keithcorey5535]

Cool project!

[@keithspencersr.6806]

Great desk

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks Keith!

[@graveurgraveur2691]

Well done!

[@vectric]

Excellent project Darbin ❤

[@trevy8673]

It’s beautiful 👏

[@3PWorkshop]

I would love to make this, I dont have a cnc, and it would probably take me more than 24 hours. But still, awesome desk

[@danielmiller2886]

I don't have any experience with CNC routers, but is it possible to overlap some of the cut edges so that there is less waste of the plywood?

[@bostonbruins1329]

Great Job!! Can I borrow your CNC 😁 LOL

[@jamesbuchanan3439]

If you made the legs and rail as a single piece, you should be able to “nest” the pieces within one another in the layout, so that four sheets wouldn’t be required...

[@mattomon1045]

I love the desk

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks!

[@johndelarosa3197]

One question please, how would.you further strengthen the legs?

[@jeanloreaud9282]

Joli style et belle réalisation bravo à bientôt salut Jeannot 🛠😉

[@TommyPrydeIV]

Hi Darbin! I need help, we LOVE this desk design but we purchased your plans before we realized it only includes a VCarve file. Since we can't yet afford VCarve, Is there any way you could send it as an SVG or another interchangeable format?

[@jamesbuchanan3439]

Very nice project. The model being done in ¼ inch plywood is ⅓ as thick as ¾ inch plywood, so wouldn’t a one-third scale be better than a ¼ scale model, in terms of perfect scaling in all dimensions, inherently free of any need of any small adjustments due to the change in thickness? (And result in a nice little bench just under 10 inches in height?)

[@hassanal-mosawi6049]

Thanks for sharing that

[@grijeshmnit]

This is wonderful desk, I diy similar one for study desk. Thanks for vedio

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks for watching!

[@andreszunigamarin5613]

Muy buenos trabajos me encantan 😊👌

[@rinyuli_dori293]

Thanks for sharing~ Great!!

[@TheWoodHaven]

I love that design. The lines are clean and pleasing to the eye. Thanks for sharing. EDIT: I just went to your shoppe and did not see the plans for this desk :/

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks so much Daryl - and thanks for letting me know about the website, it was on the homepage, just not in the shoppe. But it's been corrected.

[@TheWoodHaven]

@@darbinorvar Great, just purchased.

[@uibsen]

How about making a rustic and rugged Pirates Chest ???

[@nagato8152]

Love u ur genius

[@girthbrooks4219]

Wait you said UCCNC?? is that a compatible software with an AVID machine?? I have a Stepcraft that uses UCCNC didn't know they could be compatible with other machines

[@billyhill101]

Amazing

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks Billy!

[@ontwerperenmaker1096]

Nice job! Please can you reveal where you got the composite nails from? Tnx!

[@badmoodism]

Can you make cabinet set for living room

[@SawDustMakerRJM]

This would make a great flat pack product to sell so that most anyone could put it together.

[@craiglarkins6688]

Saw Dust Maker my thoughts exactly

[@kendalljones5910]

How many people making this desk have a CNC machine?

[@JohnColgan.]

Great build. Would legs have been more stable butted 90° _| instead of sandwich together?

[@darbinorvar]

Maybe, but it wouldn't look add good!

[@MCsCreations]

Really interesting process, Linn! And the table turned out beautiful! 😃 Great work!!! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@darbinorvar]

Thanks MC!

[@HVS.11.11]

Darbin Orvar hello, is there anyway I can purchase custom pieces from you?

[@MCsCreations]

@@HVS.11.11 Try checking her website. 😊

[@darbinorvar]

@@HVS.11.11 send me an email from my site to let me know what you are thinking.

[@HVS.11.11]

Darbin Orvar awesome! Thank you

[@TrussttN01]

Ok. If I wanted to order 10 pre-cut kits, how much would you charge. I’m close to you and could pick them up.

[@darbinorvar]

If you interested send me an email.

[@pijnto]

Nice clean, functional, I can see a bit of Greta Magnusson- Grossman in there.

[@LogHouseFarm]

One of our baby chickens had splayed legs, poor thing, we also added a brace and the chicken was fine 😂😅