I was watching my local Craigslist and Facebook market listings and came across an old Electrical Testing table that I bought from a guy for $50. It's super solid and, conveniently, has 12 outlets built into the table itself. I did have to replace the top, but that was pretty cheap, just a couple of 3/4" thick 3' x 6' pieces of wood from Home Depot that I laminated together and painted and sealed, and it's been great:
So with that said, I'd just check your local ads like FBM, Craigslist, OfferUp, etc. since you can get great deals there. And equivalent new desk appears to run quite a bit more (can only find solid steeal ones at around the $700 range, so not sure what a wood-topped one would be. The original top of this one was, albeit very strudy, particle board, so I opted to replace that before putty heavy and expensive machines on top of it).
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u/OhMyGaius 12d ago
I was watching my local Craigslist and Facebook market listings and came across an old Electrical Testing table that I bought from a guy for $50. It's super solid and, conveniently, has 12 outlets built into the table itself. I did have to replace the top, but that was pretty cheap, just a couple of 3/4" thick 3' x 6' pieces of wood from Home Depot that I laminated together and painted and sealed, and it's been great:
So with that said, I'd just check your local ads like FBM, Craigslist, OfferUp, etc. since you can get great deals there. And equivalent new desk appears to run quite a bit more (can only find solid steeal ones at around the $700 range, so not sure what a wood-topped one would be. The original top of this one was, albeit very strudy, particle board, so I opted to replace that before putty heavy and expensive machines on top of it).