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Waterfall edge desk8/19/2023 we used a 10 inch (width) piece and placed it underneath the desk, with the desk being on it’s back so that we could trace where to cut (as seen at 1:30.to fix that, take another piece of birch plywood to use for the backside as shown above.as much as I loved having no back to the desk, it needed something to support it and help with the slight wobble.or/and add some scrap pieces in an X shape to temporarily nail to the back and/or front of the desk to ensure it stays curved.lay the table down sideways in between two objects that would hold the table in position with clamps while the wood glue dries.glue generously where your cuts to bend are with a strong wood glue and then bend it once more (both sides of course).bend the wood a few times to make sure it’s the way you want it and to make the bend less “stiff” (just don’t overdue the bending as there is still a chance that it will snap).use a trim square to cut against and ensure that the cuts are straight and consistent.after marking the height that we wanted the desk to be, we went 1.5 inches both ways from the height line to cut the lines every 3/16th of an inch in order to get the plywood to bend (we 100% recommend on doing a test run on a scrap piece to see what kind of bend you want).our sheet is a 3/4 inch of birch plywood and so we used a circular saw that was set at about 1/2.first thing first, in order to create a bend, you cannot cut all the way through the sheet of birch but just a little over half of the thickness of the sheet (see pic above and below for clarification).mark on your sheet of birch with a simple pencil for where you need to make your cuts.make sure to measure the width with a tape measure too so that you don’t end up with a narrow or too wide desk/table. find out what the size you need for the desk to be (we had to use a 10 foot sheet of birch plywood because our table in total was around 9 ft before we bent it).Also, alllllll the BTS is on insta under my “Waterfall desk” highlight! PRESS PLAY: So naturally I had an idea and naturally Leo said “uhhhhhhh.”Ī few months later and where we are! Check out the video for a quick tutorial and scroll for more detailed instructions. I sanded the desk down to the raw wood so that I could just clear it buuuutttt I didn’t like it. Curvy furniture is all in right now and I’m totally into it! We had a desk that we purchased from a garage sale that we gave a quick makeover, buuuutttt things started yellowing about a yearish later (check out this post for what not do to when painting wooden furniture and for what our old desk looked like).
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