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    Show us your desks!

    Ok so I like having a desk to keep those small things we all like in! Also I like older furniture with a 'lived in' look. So this is my desk, I looked at getting new ones but didn't like their style and they were pretty expensive for what they were.
    So this one I'm told is from the 1920-30s and looks like it had some use!

    So what do yours look like, do you like old or new?

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    Although it suits the desk - not sure you are doing your back any favours if you are using that chair for any period of time.

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    Get all your things. Everything in your house, now put all that on a table. That's what my desk looks like. That's at work. At home I use my phone

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    Your desk is missing a bankers lamp.

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    I like the way the computer was chosen to coordinate with the style of the desk.

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    +1 as seadog1408
    Definitely a bankers lamp required



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    I dare not, it may be the hub of all things but its a bit, lived in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveR View Post
    Get all your things. Everything in your house, now put all that on a table. That's what my desk looks like. That's at work. At home I use my phone
    Mine too, it's a disgrace of a area.
    Cheers..
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    Do you have horse-brasses around the fireplace too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maysie View Post
    Do you have horse-brasses around the fireplace too?
    No we have some wrought iron stuff. It's an old house and it suits it.

    Sorry if it's not your thing.

    Last edited by oldoakknives; 23rd July 2017 at 16:37.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seffrican View Post
    I like the way the computer was chosen to coordinate with the style of the desk.
    Chose the computer to be a computer. There weren't any early 20th century computers I could find at the time to match the desk!

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    Chose the computer to be a computer. There weren't any early 20th century computers I could find at the time to match the desk!
    A Mac SE would be retro enough to fit, surely? ;)

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    Started the thread as a bit of fun for people who perhaps liked old/new desks and stuff and might have something different.

    Obviously it's not going to be that so rather than upset or annoy anyone I will remove the post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    Started the thread as a bit of fun for people who perhaps liked old/new desks and stuff and might have something different.

    Obviously it's not going to be that so rather than upset or annoy anyone I will remove the post.
    I'm sorry I teased you. I genuinely thought you'd take it as a gentle ribbing.

    You even had me wondering how much tidying I'd need to do on my desk before I would dare inflict a picture of it on the rest of the forum.

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    Can you put the pictures back up please?

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    Quote Originally Posted by seffrican View Post
    I'm sorry I teased you. I genuinely thought you'd take it as a gentle ribbing.

    You even had me wondering how much tidying I'd need to do on my desk before I would dare inflict a picture of it on the rest of the forum.
    No need to say sorry mate, don't mind a bit of teasing and banter but it was just going to be a p*88 take with 'horse brass' comments etc. so no point.

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    A stark contrast to the rest of my flat


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    Quote Originally Posted by hafle View Post
    A stark contrast to the rest of my flat



    Never mind the desk - I like that snipers rifle


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    Quote Originally Posted by bond View Post
    Never mind the desk - I like that snipers rifle


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    It looks like an airgun. Nice Harris bipod

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    Quote Originally Posted by bond View Post
    Never mind the desk - I like that snipers rifle


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    It's a precharged air rifle, not much good for a 'sniper'

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    Yeah, not much sniping at sub 12ftlb. And not a Harris, I forget the brand, but they're a lot cheaper :) aa s510, hw99s, and bsa superstar on the floor.

    Desk is actually dining table. We eat everything off our laps like civilised folk

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    It's a precharged air rifle, not much good for a 'sniper'
    It may interest you to know that precharged air chamber rifles were originally used by snipers, sometime about the Napoleonic era (I'm sure that the time scale is wrong but there's enough pedantry around here that it'll be corrected). The rifles were too delicate and expensive for general use, but the silence and lack of muzzle flash/smoke made them ideal for sniper purposes. It has been told that being caught with one of those early airguns on the battlefield was enough to be put up against the wall and shot with no further questions asked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seffrican View Post
    It may interest you to know that precharged air chamber rifles were originally used by snipers, sometime about the Napoleonic era (I'm sure that the time scale is wrong but there's enough pedantry around here that it'll be corrected). The rifles were too delicate and expensive for general use, but the silence and lack of muzzle flash/smoke made them ideal for sniper purposes. It has been told that being caught with one of those early airguns on the battlefield was enough to be put up against the wall and shot with no further questions asked.
    Probably just a tad over 12ftlb though :) but you are right, I came across that only very recently. Pretty cool stuff

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    Quote Originally Posted by seffrican View Post
    It may interest you to know that precharged air chamber rifles were originally used by snipers, sometime about the Napoleonic era (I'm sure that the time scale is wrong but there's enough pedantry around here that it'll be corrected). The rifles were too delicate and expensive for general use, but the silence and lack of muzzle flash/smoke made them ideal for sniper purposes. It has been told that being caught with one of those early airguns on the battlefield was enough to be put up against the wall and shot with no further questions asked.
    Not really

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlton-Browne View Post
    Can you put the pictures back up please?
    Perhaps start a thread with pictures of yours?

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    Not really
    Yes it's a fable, in fact it's been debunked in this months BASC magazine!


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    Quote Originally Posted by seadog1408 View Post
    Yes it's a fable, in fact it's been debunked in this months BASC magazine!


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    I get the magazine. But the Wikipedia wits obviously don't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seadog1408 View Post
    Yes it's a fable, in fact it's been debunked in this months BASC magazine!


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    Killjoy :(

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    I get the magazine. But the Wikipedia wits obviously don't.
    Unnecessarily ad hominem there, chap.

    I was relating something I read in a book on the history of air guns several decades ago. If it's since turned out to be debunked, well, that's the fate of all history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seffrican View Post
    Unnecessarily ad hominem there, chap.

    I was relating something I read in a book on the history of air guns several decades ago. If it's since turned out to be debunked, well, that's the fate of all history.
    Was only joking like everyone else chap

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    There's a YouTube channel devoted to desk setups, he even goes to people's houses and gives them a "desk makeover" you can all laugh about it but when you see the thought that goes into some of his screen, speaker and keyboard set ups. You'll go out and start spending money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by justin44 View Post
    There's a YouTube channel devoted to desk setups, he even goes to people's houses and gives them a "desk makeover" you can all laugh about it but when you see the thought that goes into some of his screen, speaker and keyboard set ups. You'll go out and start spending money.
    Could have been a nice thread as maybe people do have nice desks in their study/man caves.

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    Could have been an interesting thread given the number of people who work from home but? as an aside yours looks good but the chair would not be my choice for long periods.
    I no longer have a desk being retired and i love it.

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    I would genuinely like to get some inspiration on how to set my desk up at work!

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    Was only joking like everyone else chap
    OK, fair enough, I accept the spanking. Are we even now?

    Quote Originally Posted by SteveR View Post
    I would genuinely like to get some inspiration on how to set my desk up at work!
    You could try this:


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    That is actually tidier than my desk.

    I don't work Mondays so it gives theatre staff an extra day to find things they need while I've been off

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    Sore point at the minute. Having an extension built and had earmarked the new bedroom as an office / man room. Lots of dark wood furniture and leather. Like a private club.

    Fast forward 6 months and the leather sofa bed has now become an Ikea day bed, the bookshelves have turned into wardrobes for extra storage for the kids clothes and my desk has gone from a manly slab of vintage mahogany to a little apology of a desk stuck in the corner. Worst thing is, all the stuff is white. Not manly, not cossetting, not happy!

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    Can't put a picture up as I work with a lot of proprietary hardware but my desks span one wall of my home office and are both a rats nest of wires, debug probes, pcbs, scopes and psus. Every few months I have a tidy up but after a week they are back to their awful state.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave O'Sullivan View Post
    Sore point at the minute. Having an extension built and had earmarked the new bedroom as an office / man room. Lots of dark wood furniture and leather. Like a private club.

    Fast forward 6 months and the leather sofa bed has now become an Ikea day bed, the bookshelves have turned into wardrobes for extra storage for the kids clothes and my desk has gone from a manly slab of vintage mahogany to a little apology of a desk stuck in the corner. Worst thing is, all the stuff is white. Not manly, not cossetting, not happy!
    Man up you 'need' the man room (if swmbo will allow it of course!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by seffrican View Post
    Mate! I think you've been burgled!

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    Was only joking like everyone else chap
    Quote Originally Posted by blackal View Post
    Mate! I think you've been burgled!
    LOL. Not my desk, I got that from Reddit, /r/shittybattlestations I guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seadog1408 View Post
    Your desk is missing a bankers lamp.
    What have you got on yours?

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    What have you got on yours?
    Well, I have two desks in the study, one for paperwork and one for gun cleaning, my wife bought me a new metal tilt lamp for the desk and EVERY time I use it....... I wish she had got me a bankers lamp!


    mike

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    Quote Originally Posted by seadog1408 View Post
    Well, I have two desks in the study, one for paperwork and one for gun cleaning, my wife bought me a new metal tilt lamp for the desk and EVERY time I use it....... I wish she had got me a bankers lamp!


    mike
    Pics?

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    I work away, home in a week or so, will snap some then.

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