"when i entered my junior year in college, i decided that i wanted a nice desk for my apartment - a lot of depth and width, but i wanted to keep the cost down as well. so, i originally looked at the jerker that came with a shelf, but felt that it wasn't wide enough for my liking. then, i looked at the table-style jerker, but i didn't like the fact that it didn't have a shelf for the monitor.
so, after spending some time at ikea looking at all kinds of crap, i noticed a nice shelf (lack) that was a tad bit bigger than the table jerker's width. then, i saw 2 slanted aluminum legs (capita - couldn't find the link to the slanted ones) that i felt would be sufficient to hold it up. and after drilling a few holes, the rest is history." link.neat. i think it goes really well with the set-up.
ooh, that's a nice one. With appropriate reinforcement I suppose you could use the longer Lack shelf as well. I have one of the now-discontinued Galant chevron-shaped desks in my home studio and with some sawing I can imagine this solution adapted to create a sort of "flying bridge", good for supporting LCD monitors or pairs of nearfield speakers; maybe with a bit of Sorbothane sheeting between components to damp vibration transfer. Custom studio desks like that usually cost in the thousands, so this would only cost a fraction of that (plus time spent).
ReplyDeletehow funny. i did something similar with the lack shelf on my vika tabletop desk, but used the fira chests as support. a little less minimalistic, but i need my storage! anyway, i'm glad to see that great minds think alike.
ReplyDeleteI used to have a Jerker computer desk, one of the older ones with the two pull-out mouse trays. It was a great desk, but somehow I couldn't get past the fact that I was surfing the net while using a desk called "Jerker".
ReplyDeleteNice hack, though. I wish i'd thought of it. :)