Table ingredients: 1 - 33” x 49” sheet of .25” MDF (part a) (It doesn’t have to be exactly this, I had it laying around and build the rest to a 24” x 48” surface)
3 - 2” x 4” x 144” woodstuff
Specific cuts:
4 - 24” length (part b)
4 - 30” length (part c)
4 - 48” length (part d)
72 - 3” wood screws (connector e)
Solder spool ingredients: 1 - .25” dowel
2 - 4” eye screws
2 - Hitch pin clips
Miscellaneous station ingredients: 1 - 24” under cabinet light (I may add another)
2 - 6 plug surge protectors (or any you’d prefer)
1 - 2” hook screw (to hang heat gun on)
1 - Focal XS Bookshelf speaker set up (or whatever speakers you want to use. Music is important)
1 - monitor with hdmi input
1 - roku
How to Put Table Together (derived from - http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/04/04/how-to-make-a-work-bench/): 1. Screw everything together in a logical manner that resembles a table, if you’ve somehow managed to make anything that isn’t table-esque, continue to step 2.
2. Take one (1) part D and caress it tenderly, but be careful for splinters (not the sensei). Butt it perpendicularly at one end with an end of one (1) part B.
3. Use three (3) of connector E to join these two pieces of wood together in wooden matrimony.
4. At the other end of the currently stroked part D, intersect another part B and use three (3) more screws to turn this into a three-way of woodiness.
5. As you have now began the frame for your table top, it is time to complete it by first taking one (1) part D and six (6) of connector E to repeat steps three (3) twice (two times) at the opposing end of parts B.
6. Time for center support, take one (1) of your remaining to (2) part D and gently slide it into place halfway between the other tue (2) part Ds (heh, double Ds) that are already attached. This should be at approximately twelve (12) inches from either edge of parts B.
7. Congrats, you’ve finished the basic frame for the tabletop to attach to. You deserve a reward and break, but not beer, though.
8. Back from your break? Good, it’s time to complete the bottom leg supports and attach the legs of your table to it, and then attach that to what you just finished.
9. Remember back when you started, how you followed the directions numbered two through four? Go do it again, but remember you only have one more of part D left.
10. Take one (1) of part C and firmly push it into the left corner of the C shape (get it?) that you’ve just created. Use three (3) of connector E to ensure that it does not, and cannot, fall over in the lure of that mistress of mistresses, gravity.
11. Do step ten (10) again on the right side of your C shape.
12. At the left side of the open end of your C, use three (3) of connector E to attach another (this is number three (3) (four (4), if you’re back from step thirteen (13)) of part C to this end. Be sure to space it back just far enough to be able to smoothly slide into the top frame later.
13. Go do that again on the last corner that doesn’t have a thirty (30) inch vertical piece of timber attached to it.
14. Oh boy, are you excited? You should be, it’s time to put the frame of your tabletop on the reinforced legs you just made. Read on to find out how.
15. Follow the rule “Work smarter, not harder” by having your top frame laying flush on the ground.
16. Take your table legs and rotate them one hundred eighty (180) degrees so as your C shape is up in the air, as if it just don’t care.
17. Did you make sure those leg ends were in the corners of the top piece, where everything would be nice and flush and ready for a lot (12 at least) of connector E to join it all together? Why not? Do that now.
18. Welp, good job building an upside-down table, genius. Go buy something prebuilt from a hardware store and cry. Or be a man and flip dat shiii pi (π) radians (don’t worry, I’ll wait for you to figure it out. Be sure to use at least 180 digits of the number that represents pi(π) to calculate what it would be in degrees).
19. Hey, you have a table skeleton and it’s the correct side up now. High five, you’re almost at the finish line.
20. Place part A (eyyyy!) on top of table, but do not celebrate just yet as that could just slide off at any time of its own accord (not the car). Use ten (10) to fifteen (15) (fourteen (14) is good, too) of connector E to ensure that your tabletop will never run away as part of your neighbor’s subwoofer box.
21. Know how I said you couldn’t celebrate just a few minutes ago (it was just a few, right? It’s just screws. BTW, I should have mentioned this before, but if you don’t have a powered screwdriver (also known as a drill, electric screwdriver or that green thing that spins the fake dong in those special videos you watch), you’re going to have a bad time. Seriously, screwing all these screws manually? What are you, a heathen?) You should celebrate the fact that you have completed a table and now may die a complete man (or lady).
