In this video, i'm going to show you exactly how i managed to put together this dream,
height-adjustable, hardwood, live-edge desk for quite literally thousands upon
thousands of dollars less than what everybody else is spending. And it just so happens to
be essentially the easiest possible DIY project ever. It's so easy i don't even know if you could
call it a project... it's just more like something you'll just do in an afternoon.
I've had some pretty terrible desk setups over the years, either due to a lack of
funds or a lack of space and usually a bit of both. But nowadays i am co-running
two full-time YouTube channels and so i am spending more time than ever at my desk and so
i decided it was time to treat yourself and get the desk set up i've always dreamed of having:
a live edge hardwood height adjustable desk... and then i found out how much they cost...
But that all changed one day when an ad came across one of my social media feeds
from Home Depot of all places one of the products that they were marketing in this ad
was a big giant teak 80 inch long double live edge countertop so it's a big giant slab of wood
basically the colors the textures the fact that it had a live edge is all so so perfect and when
i clicked through to see the price i was expecting you know a couple of grand but then when i clicked
in i saw that it was 575 bucks shipped to my door in Canadian dollars so the desk dream build was
definitely back on and yeah they just ship it to you like you would get an amazon package except
it's an enormous tea countertop and it's pretty heavy so i definitely recommend you have a friend
with you when you're dealing with this thing all right so once i found this panel and saw the price
of it the first thing i did was go and check into the company that actually produces this desktop
where is it produced where are they getting this wood from what are their practices like and i am
happy to say that uh the company who does make it they're called interbuild from what they say
and what's on their website is sustainably sourced it is not from some giant big old-growth tea trees
this is actually multiple pieces bonded together which i personally very much prefer because well
i don't think any desk is worth taking out some big beautiful old growth tree out of the forest
they say it's a carbon neutral product and there are zero VOC's in the finishing of this and so
it's not going to stink up your office and give you a headache and from what i found they sell
these things through a number of different outlets globally and so no matter where
you live you should be able to find them on home depot or amazon potentially i'll leave some links
in the description okay now that you have your ridiculously nice tabletop it's time for the legs
and i went for the Jarvis hand crank powered frame and i did this for a couple of specific reasons
yes for 330 bucks i know that there are a whole bunch of electric height adjustable desks out
there but after looking through reviews i figured for the money that i wanted to
spend i'd rather get a great quality hand crank desk over a cheaply made electric desk any day
of the week because i want this desk to last a very very long time the other big reason why i
bought this particular Jarvis frame is that the legs are set back towards the rear of the desk
rather than in the center like most are this gives way more leg clearance and it's gonna allow for
the cleanest possible cable routing setup but i'm gonna go over more of that in an upcoming video
the last thing i got for the main desk build was casters now the ones sold specifically for Jarvis
desks are kind of pricey for what you get and they also have a really high stack height which i did
not want so i bought these ones instead and the only tricky part is that the dust frame requires
m8 by 15 millimeter length stems but they are nearly impossible to find so i got these
with m8 by 25 millimeter stems and just cut 10 millimeters off the stem length so all i had to
do for the basic desk itself was just pre-drill some holes put in the wood screws and attach the
crank handle i also gave the edges a light sanding and put a coat of oil on there which
is just meant to help protect the wood a little bit and that's it you buy the desktop you buy the
legs you put them together and you save a metric buttload of money now for me i didn't stop there
Make sure you subscribe to see the future videos it's a three-part series for this by the way
i'm going to show you the completed desk setup and the most ocd cable routing setup i have personally
ever seen i'm really proud of it i can't wait to show you so we'll see on the next one everybody