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Mahogany Desk Pc build Art Deco inspired "dreambuild"

Koverhar
Level 7
Greetings,

This build has been in the works for the past 3 years and is within months of finishing. It's been a lot of work and I sincerely hope you enjoy it.

The idea was to make your workspace feel like sitting at a grand piano. I love old speedboats and the design of the first half of the 20th century in general. The design is heavily influenced from that era. Everything in this build is pretty much built from scratch. I've been blessed with having a building partner along the way who's helped me throughout the build, his name is Mikael, mine is Wilhelm.

Special shoutouts to Daniel at Singularity Computers for his effort in making the reservoir according to my design and to ICEMODZ for giving a good deal on the cables.

Here's a photo where it is at currently, below you will find the build from the very start and I hope enjoy this 🙂

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PC parts:

Motherboard: MSI BigBang Xpower 2, x 79 lga 2011¨
CPU: Intel i7-3930k @ 4.6Ghz
RAM: 32GB Corsair Dominator 1866Mhz
PSU: Corsair ax1500i
GPU(s): 2xGTX 980s overclocked to whatever I can reach:)
HDD/SSD: 2xWD red 6tb+3xV-Samsung 500gb. 2 in raid and 1 as bootdrive

Watercooling:

Radiators: 2xmonstah 560mm,1xalphacool 360mm
Pumps: Plexitop EKWB d5x2
Piping: Iodized copper
Reservoir: Custom Singularity Dual loop acrylic reservoir.
Fans: Various Noiseblocker fans 25 in total.

In built audio:

ODAC 2 from mayflower for my Sennheiser hd 650's

PC parts:

Motherboard: MSI BigBang Xpower 2, x 79 lga 2011¨
CPU: Intel i7-3930k @ 4.6Ghz
RAM: 32GB Corsair Dominator 1866Mhz
PSU: Corsair ax1500i
GPU(s): 2xGTX 980s overclocked to whatever I can reach:)
HDD/SSD: 2xWD red 6tb+3xV-Samsung 500gb. 2 in raid and 1 as bootdrive

Watercooling:

Radiators: 2xmonstah 560mm,1xalphacool 360mm
Pumps: Plexitop EKWB d5x2
Piping: Iodized copper
Reservoir: Custom Singularity Dual loop acrylic reservoir.
Fans: Various Noiseblocker fans 25 in total.

Lets start off then.

Solid drawing

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Let's weld. Starting off with the basic shape. Table will be roughly 1800x780mm

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Radiator bay:

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Parts started to come in

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After a few more hours I have room for my legs and some placement for the fans

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Gonna want some monitoring

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The wood was ordered like this. Huge chunks of birch. The will be shaped to be the outer panels of the chassi. It's a really dense wood and it's been dried for years properly before being used.
Quite heavy actually. These 3 parts weigh about 50kgs or about 110 pounds

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After using different bits and sanding roughly down ending at about 320 grit paper I managed to shape them to the shape I desired.

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Playing around a bit with some of the parts. That's an ST8 Motherboard tray from a caselabs pc

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So I contacted Singularity Computers and he luckily agreed to make my design of a dual loop reservoir come to life. The plan was something like this
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Then I needed some legs. Used 60mm hollow steel pipe and some 40x40mm steel for the upper bars.

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And the mounting for the screenstand was lathed by some shaft steel

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Installing the big ones

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With the special fasteners

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Also put in a bit of a cheat to make sure they didn't sag at all. Screw wont be visible

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Key mechanism installed

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Had to cut a hole out of the back panel to feed motherboard cables to the screen etc. This won't be visible either

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Painted the reinforcement

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All chromed parts in place

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Key in place as well as the usb/audio plate also that nickel plated. Key as previously made from flaming birch. 5 or 6 layers of 2 component varnish to not stain the wood.

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I like the color scheme

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Monitor back on with the glass


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A lot of photos. Outside is pretty much finished except the wood needs to get that nanosanding done to gloss it up a bit more

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Made a quick video so you can get a better 3d view 😄

For those who liked the hinges here's how they ended up, I'm pretty pleased with them

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xeromist
Moderator
This is gorgeous! I'm jealous. 🙂
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