Marco and Mattias King give us an inside look into their well-engineered bus conversion, including this mind-bending dream desk for video editing and music production, made with custom metal parts ordered on oshcut.com.
Marco: My brother and I built this dream video editing and music production desk in this bus that I live in. I'm also working on a video about how we built this whole bus, so subscribe if you want to see that.
So, we're in the bus and we're making this desk right now. As you can see, there's a lot of custom parts and bends and moves in crazy ways. There's tubes, holes in precise places, and all this different stuff. So we reached out to our friends at OSH Cut, and they sent us a bunch of custom metal parts for our desk and dinette.
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We just got them in, so we're going to unbox them.
Wow, that's crazy! Look at that tiny little curve.
So, this is this ... and this is going to hold my big studio speakers so they can tilt down into the desk, and they are already at the perfect angle to point towards me while I'm working.
What's that?
Mattias: These pieces go with that. It's pretty simple. They're like hinge spacers. The hinges are wider than our metal needs to be, so these guys match the profile of the inside of the hinges, so they can clamp on. So this thickness fits this thickness. That's what we care about.
Marco: Nice!
Mattias: I wanted to really test the limits here.
Marco: Oh wow ... how did you make that?
Mattias: If this the desk wall here and this goes down in there, then the gas spring can go through both of these wholes so that it's not just in plywood.
Marco: Awesome!
Mattias: The gas springs mount to the ground, like I said, but then the reason there's four for only two gas springs is that they also mount to these. Because you also don't want to just put the gas spring through the one hole because then it's just like cranking itself in there ... like there's 200 pounds of force on this 1/2" ... it could start to twist itself out of that hole a little bit. But if it's got two holes, it's chillin'.
So that goes here and here.
Marco: And these four are the exact same piece? And do you get a discount with OSH Cut if these are the same?
Mattias: Yeah. It's the same process, so they can just duplicate it. So that's the only reason I did that.
Marco: Wow. Good job OSH Cut!
Mattias: So this goes onto the desk and holds the bottom of this gas spring here. So this piece is hiding under this one, and the gas spring goes through that hole and then mounts to here. This mounts to the back leg, and this goes up under the desk.
This is my favorite piece.
Marco: That's crazy!
Mattias: These parts are a little stronger than I thought; it's really hard to get a feel for how strong something like this is going to be. It's easy to get CAD googles and be like "That's going to be really really strong" or "That's going to be really weak" and be wrong.
Your monitor goes onto these three holes and hangs on there.
Marco: Oh, is this for my audio interface? Oh my word! If you ever need this made, don't try to make it yourself! What is this?!?
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What did your friends think?
Marco: Here's what our friends thought ...
Friend #1: Freaking incredible!
Friend #2: I love how the speakers fold in.
Friend #3: That's sick!
Friend #4: That's crazy!
Friend #5: This is fire, I want to live here!
Friend #6: This is the disc DJ tray?!
Friend #7: No freakin' way, that's so wild!
Friend #4: Wait, so these parts were all OSH Cut?
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