ARGOSY CONSOLE COPY
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A couple of the members on the forum were interested in my desk. I saw this desk at argosy consoles and wanted to buy it, but by the time I paid for the desk, the shipping, the currency exchange and the duty, the total cost was something I couldnt afford. So, I downloaded a pdf from their site which had most of the dimensions for what I was after, and I decided I would build it myself. Its the Argosy 520 LR workstation, and its just got the WOW! factor I was lookin for in my recording studio.
Bear in mind that this was my first ever wood working project of this type. Im not a carpenter, nor do I claim to be. I just saw this desk and decided that I had to build it, and just "did it"
Step 1 was to build the two 19" racks and the desk top. The racks are made out of 1/4" plywood ( if I was gonna do this again Id use 1/2" ) and the desk top is made out of 1/2" plywood. The first challenge was, how to make the cuts straight, as I cut the tops and rack panels using a hand held circular saw. Rack rails to the rescue!!!! I bought two 2 meter lengths of rack rail and used them as guides for the saw cuts. First I laid out the pattern to be cut on the wood and screwed the rack rail on to the wood the proper distance from the line to be cut so that when I put the edge of the guide on the circular saw against it, I just made the cuts like it was a guided band saw.
The rest of the desk was cut out the same way using the diagrams in the Argosy pdf to give me an idea of how it might be constructed. I finished off the surfaces of the rack and the desktop with the same plastic that builders use for kitchen countertops, and all other surfaces were painted flat black.
The Argosy was gonna run me over $5,000 Canadian at the time. I built this, including the cost of the tools for about $700CDN.
I put a couple of pics at the end of what my setup looked like before I built this. Functionally, both setups are the same in that they have the same gear, but the people that hire me to work for them are a lot more impressed with what is just basically, a new plywood desk! Its increased my bottom line and has made me more than the $700 and two weeks work I put into it. Enjoy.