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are you tired of reaching down to plug in a usb stick do you hate that mess of

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cables under your desk are you sick of hard to use phone

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charging cables meet the LTT clean desk v2 it's our meanest cleanest desk setup

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yet and it was completely scratch built for the ultimate in cable management

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perfection thank you lg for sponsoring this video and now why don't we all take

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a closer look at what you guys paid us to build

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lg's ultrafine ergo display features a 32-inch 4k ips panel which is great for

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watching videos getting work done or whatever you want but it also isn't its

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most interesting feature the ergo in the name is because the included adjustable

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monitor ARM forgoes the traditional large base and instead uses a much more

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compact desk clamp the ARM gives you the ability to move the display 180

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millimeters or seven inches away from the stand and swivel it 280 degrees in

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addition to your typical tilt rotate and height adjust that made it the perfect

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candidate for a project that one ups our last cleanest desk setup

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in its push-back position the monitor has a distinct asymmetrical look to it

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and the goal was to complement that look rather than build just another basic

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rectangle desk we ended up choosing the single bump design to keep the

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integrated usb hub out of the way of the chair to give artistic users a larger

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work area and for aesthetics

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for our material we chose baltic birch plywood for its light color strength and

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great layering pattern did i mention this is a scratch build by the way

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nicholas is going to put all the plans in the description if you all want to follow along

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for dimensions we settled on the five foot width of our sheet to save a cut

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and for depth we felt 28 inches allowed both comfortable computing thanks to the

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ultrafine ergo and with a quick transformation ample space for hobbies

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like drawing model building and the like now the main innovation of our table is

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its invisible cable management high performance wireless keyboards and

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mice have been staples of clean setups for years

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but the problem is that we don't have the technology yet for wireless high

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speed usb or high resolution display

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connections at least not with low latency so we came

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up with the idea of routing channels on the underside of the table to tuck our

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cables into and then we chose legs that are both aesthetically pleasing and

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hollow the idea here is that our desktop

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and the floor underneath can be totally free of rat's nest cable mass

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we laid out the potential cuts then set up the desk like it was intended to be

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used this actually ended up helping us choose the hump as the home for our usb

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3 hub i mean no one likes bumping a usb stick and breaking it off we've all been

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there as for our wireless charging chi spot

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the left side keeps it out of the way and maximizes usable space on the right

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lefties may actually prefer to mirror the entire design

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marking the final cut lines cable channels and where our legs will attach

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was next a quick tip by the way mark an x on any areas to be cut this will make

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it easier to remember which side of the line you want to stay on and provides a

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quick reference to what should be cut off we then used a jigsaw to remove most but

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not all of the material this was to make sure that when we went back and cut with

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our handheld router the cutting kind of router not the

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networking kind of router we would be able to get a clean smooth surface using

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long rulers and some of our filament spools as guides for our flush trim

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router bit we were able to clean up all of the edges of our table to its final

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shape for those of you wondering what a flush trim bit is it's a router bit that has a

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bearing at the bottom or the top that matches the diameter of the cutting part

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the bearing rides along a template or guide that you want to cut and the bit

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then cuts that shape next we drilled out the holes for the

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legs and instead of using a normal wood screw we went with these threaded wood

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inserts they allow us to easily install and remove the legs without having to

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worry about the screw holes wearing out and becoming unusable over time

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make sure you choose a good quality insert though we had a couple that didn't want to install all the way in

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before breaking and when they break well

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they are a royal pain in the tush to remove for cutting the cable channels a

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combination of freehand routing and using a straight edge as a guide was

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used to make multiple passes down to the quarter inch depth that we needed then

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for the wireless charging pad the hole was cut freehand to just inside the

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marked circle with multiple very careful passes to get down to just

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one and a half millimeters of material left that's about the thickness of a

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grain of rice we then slowly clearance cut until the

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charge pad fit perfectly to hold it in place we used some scrap

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metal flat bar cleaned it up and gave it a slight bend in the middle so that once

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screwed down the bend in the flat bar would push against the pad holding it in

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place to make the desk look thick that's with two c's of course but still have it be

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light enough to move around we added a one inch skirt to the entire outside of

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the desk now to make the skirt you could take the time to make an exact copy of

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the tabletop that's one inch thick or you could go the faster route of

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using the scraps and off cuts from making the table in the first place we

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cut down the scraps to an inch and a bit the exact size doesn't really matter you

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just want to make sure there's enough material to give you a strong glue bond you don't have to worry about overhang

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at this stage by the way because that's going to be taken care of with the flush

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trim bit do make sure however that there is no undercut because it'll look like there's

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a chunk of wood missing from your desk the skirt was then glued down then

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routed to match the skirt to the tabletop looks tiring

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good thing we have these huge 40-ounce water bottles

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ltteststore.com now we chose a five and a quarter inch

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bay usb hub that has five type a ports and a gen 2 usb type c port power for

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the hub is handled via a SATA connector and data is handled by this 16 foot

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optical usb 3.2 gen 2 cable

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oh and then also this male-to-male coupler because the pictures on amazon

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for the hub weren't great to fit the hub and not have to cut a

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giant hole into the side of the desk we had to strip the hub down to its pcb and

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grab a drill bit that's about as tall as the components on the hub

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we used a drill to remove the majority of the wood then a hammer and chisel to

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open it up the rest of the way with frequent test fits and clearance checks

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until the hub fit correctly then the face plate that came with the

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hub was trimmed down and an inlay was cut so that it would be flush mounted

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some more cuts were made so the cables could clear the legs and fit into the

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channels next up was making the pass-through holes in the leg for our

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cables one in the top drilled out with a step down bit and then filed until it

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was big and smooth enough to pass our cables through then for the bottom same

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procedure just a lot wider to make grabbing the cables

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easier to smooth the table for final assembly we started with 120 grit sandpaper to

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knock down all the sharp edges on the table and round the corners a bit and

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then next was 220 grit then after a wipe

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down with a damp cloth the table was sprayed with its first few coats of

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satin clear varnish these coats need to dry for about 24

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hours after which you'll notice the wood grain becomes more pronounced or it

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tends to pop out a little bit more this is called grain rise and it happens when

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the wood swells a bit from the varnish all you need to do to fix it is lightly

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sand the top with 320 or 400 grit till it's smooth again and after that give it

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another wipe down with a damp cloth to get rid of all the leftover dust spray

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another couple coats of varnish let it dry overnight and come back to admire

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your wood in the morning now that the table is done all that

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remains is to well see if it functions as advertised

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this is actually my first time being close up with it first order of business

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i guess is to take advantage of ah

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the main benefit of the approach we took here

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so this is sick the only area where there's any cables

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visible on the desk okay there's a small wrap around at the back where the

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monitor ARM comes down then it goes into our built-in cable channel

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then there's an umbilical cord that comes out here along with the there you go power

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brick for the monitor and that's it those are hidden off next

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to your you know super sexy clean looking pc and the entire bottom of the

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desk is unobstructed so mission accomplished as far as that

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goes obviously using a hub instead of

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dedicated runs for each of these usb ports means that you are limited to the

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maximum speed of the single tether connection that goes back to the main

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computer but given that this is just for like you

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know front peripherals or whatever realistically i don't think you're going

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to want to plug in too many high high-speed devices at the same time so this

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is a type-c steam library drive i'm just

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going to pop in there and see if it works i guess

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what a wonderful question yes i can turn the brightness down sorry we need to

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turn it down for the camera but uh for your eyes you might want it pretty

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bright it does 350 nits peak brightness and it is hdr10 compatible so if you

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have an HDR signal coming into it that will work

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is that better brandon theoretically this should be fast enough for me to use

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as a game library here so let's go ahead and

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add another library in steam monitor's got speakers uh one moment

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please just turn those off

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they're allowed there we go so we're running off there just fine if we had a

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lot of high-speed stuff plugged in it could be a problem but if it's just like

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you know a usb key and then something like this for your steam library i don't

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expect it to be an issue am i in a real match right now that's fine i can win

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this this isn't the fastest panel that i've seen lg advertises a five millisecond

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greater ray response time so it's not exactly like the ultimate gaming monitor

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but the colors look great ah oh come on

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why is this game so hard this is cool though check this out

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if i'm like oh yeah time to go more immersive

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look at that we actually did a video recently where we took a gigantic tv

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also from lg and then surveyed our staff to see what viewing distance they felt

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was optimal and what we discovered was that depending on the type of content

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people actually felt pretty differently about viewing distance got all of them

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adjustments oh yeah so if i'm like you know what

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this is how i want a game right now oh

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it's not going to make me good at it but it's definitely sweet i could blame it

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on the keyboard and mouse but we all know that's not what's happening here we

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can just you know figure out more of the ways that i can appreciate how hard i'm

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getting owned right now so if you want to have more of like a top-down viewing

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experience that's totally cool too it's like whatever is ergonomic for you

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there's actually a ton of range of movement here alternately if you're

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doing something else entirely you can just like have a movie on like over

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there it's kind of out of the way i like this this is sweet what do you think

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brandon traditional monitor arms

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lame yeah pretty much

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this looks so much better it takes up no space on my desk so i can be like you

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know what screw this game because i'm terrible at

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it put all this stuff away

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and i'm gonna get up to something else entirely here yeah thanks for nothing

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rocket league like obviously monitor arms existed

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already but this is just a less wasteful approach why bother buying a junkie ARM

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that you're not going to use that's going to have to sit on your desk and just go in a closet somewhere when you

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could just have it come with the right thing

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great love it sorry team hey i blew up one of

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the bad guys though well maybe we're the bad guys

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we're definitely bad man i remember when 30 inch monitors were like

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crazy crazy expensive and you know no one had them because it was like ah

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that's totally unnecessary now it's like yeah 30 inch this is a good size 30 inch

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4k is not only big it's also sharp enough that no

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matter what distance you are from it it doesn't have any kind of noticeable

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pixelation or screen door effect let's fire up like from your project oh

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yeah and of course you're at the native resolution if you want to work with like

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high-res video content the ergo also offers 95 coverage of the dci p3 color

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space so it's perfect for something like photo editing or video editing as long

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as you're not expecting to master HDR content and of course we could just

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watch movies oh i'm going to switch it into HDR mode actually

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oh wow well the hdrness is definitely kicking

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in here we just really did not do a great job of mastering this video the

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term for that according to the kids is big yikes big boo flyness but the

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monitor is working as we expected in conclusion i think we achieved what

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we set out to do which is absolutely no visible cables from a user

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perspective and nothing to interfere with your feet when you're sitting at your desk but i do think there are

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things that we could do to even take this to another level maybe

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drilling out the bottom of the ergo stand so the cables can go right down

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into our table with the integrated you know cable management channel or maybe

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uh integrating one of logitech's power play mouse pads like into the desk or

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something so that you never have to charge your mouse

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but that's a project for another day for now if you guys enjoyed this video uh

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check out the link down below to all of the materials that we use to create it

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and if you want to watch something else like this get subscribed because we're

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going to have the ultimate desk pc version 2 coming as well where the

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actual pc is integrated into the desk and it's not much thicker than this