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The Electric Station

Posted by 141drew Posted onMar 7, 2014 at 4:02 PM and filed under Featured Spaces


This is absolutely bitchin… A swede designer decided to make an electric work station inspired a 19th-century writing desk. It features a ton of drawers for storing solder, connectors, wire, etc… Plus, space for a built-in computer, a soldering system, and all kinds of other modern niceties. Inspiring.

Check it out.


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Tim The Tool Man

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Looks like a SteamPunk inspired creation. I like it.

My father-in-law gave me a bunch of his old oscilloscopes and other neat antique electrical thingymabobbers. If I ever get some free time I know what I'm going to build!
 
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The damn hell.
Just when I THINK I've got things figured out.



Something like this comes up and ........


reminds me how inept I am.

Wow.
 
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He Veneered the MDF for the main cabinet himself, crazy, surely you would just use solid timber instead?
Looks cool, maybe the aim was for it to look good enough to go inside the house, instead of the garage
 
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I should just sell every tool I own and become a hermit....

Geez, he made all new drawers and discarded the purpose built brass knobs in midstream. I think he redid the speaker grills too, and didn't even mention it. It took me a while to figure out what the oil behind the bubble was, how cool is that idea?... The guy is an artist of the first rate, and a craftsman of the first rate plus one.

I think if Roger Penske built clever furniture instead of record breaking race car teams and Fortune 500 corporations, this is how he might go about it....
 
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That is incredible/awesome beyond description.

Craftsmanship at its finest.
 
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andrew9 said:
He Veneered the MDF for the main cabinet himself, crazy, surely you would just use solid timber instead?
Looks cool, maybe the aim was for it to look good enough to go inside the house, instead of the garage
Click to expand...

Veneered MDF is a very good choice for a functional piece of furniture because it does not expand and shrink with seasonal humidity changes, especially in a shop that may not always be climate controlled.

It's much harder to glue up a panel of solid wood, plane it flat and have it stay flat.
 
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Everything on his site is beautiful! He's got me wanting one of his video game units and I'm not even into that sort of thing. Truly an inspiring craftsman.
 
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