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Ant arrived as planned, and we spent the remainder of Thursday in detailed planning and list making.

We put together a list for the desk and the rack, plus a couple of other side projects we wanted to work on after the studio build.

Friday dawned, and bright and early we picked up the rental van that we would be using to heave honking great pieces of plywood for the desk and long pieces of wood for studding. At Home Depot we spent a couple of hours grabbing everything we needed.

The desk area is around 10 feet acros, but we could only get 8ft ply, so Ant re-planned a 3 piece desk setup, we bought the stuff and headed home to begin construction.

The desk was planned to be 4 feet deep, but scooped out in the middle allowing access to the keyboard on the right, and the rack on the left. It took the rest of the day to cut and shape the pieces including a shaped shelf to put the monitor speakers on. Heres a shot of an initial fitting of the desk:

Towards the end of the day we decided that we wanted to at least fit the bass traps as this would be harder with the desk in place. First however we had to build them. The idea is simple, you just slide slabs of fibreglass into bags. In practice this is however particularly nasty to do and we gave up after 3 as that was all we initially needed.

With the bass traps fitted then taken down again, we gave up for the night.

The next day (today) so far has been spent fixing the desk and shelf in place and applying a coat of varnish.

And that’s it so far - more in the next update!

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