Pallet desk #1

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THE PALLET DESK part1

Kicking off the first build post of the new blog with one of my favorite latest builds.

My Steampunk pallet desk.

Now because this is one of my steampunk builds I am also going to post it on my steampunk blog. you can check out that blog Here!

I first started off with a bunch of pallets Obviously. Then had to take them apart which was kind of a pain what with all the nails in those things. Every single darn nail had to be pulled out. That was a Nightmare.

After that was done I made myself a nice little work bench out of one of the pallets and some 4x4's. (pic on left) 

Then started to lay out the top. I cut a bunch of pieces to 30" as the cross plates to screw the wood to.

I went piece by piece doing my best to pick out the most random pieces as far as size and color to make it have as much of a random look as I could. When I ran out of pieces that were different I started ripping them down and rubbing them in mud to get a different look. I payed absolutely no mind to my screw patterns of if the screw sunk in all the way and on some spots tried to crack the wood. My reasoning for this was the same as before trying to make it look random and carefree. After a few hours of messing around trying to make the wood look like

( Or more so like) garbage wood thrown together I finally finished what was to be the top of the desk. (pic on left) Now onto the rest now the wood the I used for the boarder is store bought however it is the only store bought wood in the finished table. Either way I applied the boarder and lifted it 3/8" above the rest of the table to give room for the poly.

On to the poly!!!

I used a two part pour on epoxy like polyurethane. The smell was tremendous but what was worse is not thinking I never puddled any of the holes in the wood so a lot of it drained right throw the table. That was one expensive learning experience. but the first coat still came out looking pretty good. Problem was it only gave me a 1/16" of coverage crossed the whole  table.

 After a day of drying I used some clear silicone caulk to fill most of the holes and cracks around the table and applied a second coat of poly.
the second coat filled much more of the table up and shined it like a brand new penny. the table was starting to come together just as I wanted it to. And for the look of it it was perfect the poly really brought out the different hues  of the wood much more then anything thing else I did to it.
At this point I was very very happy.

Hope you enjoyed reading and for more pictures and projects you can check out my website 

AmazingJayman.com

Also you can check out my Steampunk Blog and my terrible Video Game Blog

or my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/AmazingJayman 

Have a great day and thanks for reading.