Compact Standing Desk - A Modified Standard Product

Compact Standing Desk

If you see a product that you like, but it doesn't quite fit the bill, ask us about modifications. Take this example. A customer needed a standing desk, but our standard 45" X 32" Standing Desk 1 was a bit too large. We modified the design to create this 34" X 24" Compact Standing Desk! The customer also needed a keyboard tray and monitor arm that was strong enough to hold his all-in-one computer.

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Small Standing Desk

Modified standard product. Compact Standing Desk.

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How to Wire your iMac Desk

Caretta Desks were designed with cable management in mind, and that is especially true when wiring an iMac computer to your desk. Here are some tips and ideas how to wire up your iMac or iMac Pro so it cleans up the wires and cables at your workspace.
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Each desk has a large cable tray that is integrated into the structure of the desk. There are access points to this cable tray from many places on the desk. On the desktop there is an elongated opening with a cover that was designed for the openings to sit directly under the cables of an iMac. The cables simply drop into the cable tray to be routed wherever you need them.


Attached to inside of the large cable tray is a large surge suppressing power strip. The idea is that once you have plugged in all of your devices (iMac, Thunderbolt display, speakers, printer, desk lamp, etc.) there is only one power cable coming out. We have designed the power strip with 1824 Joules of surge suppression, 6 or 12 plug positions that are set wide apart, and a 9 foot long cord. The power strip is positioned far enough under the desk that you will not see it during day to day use.


If you prefer to mount your iMac, Thunderbolt display, or other monitor on an arm, the desks were designed to attach then securely through the 2.25" thick solid cherry desktop. Apple makes a VESA adapter that allows you to attach them to many different configurations of monitor arms. For one customer, we have even attached three displays on individually moving arms, attached to an iMac Pro.
Here is a drawing of the desk with an iMac Pro and three displays.


If you use an iMac Pro, there are many shelf options that you can put on the desk that provide access to the cable tray.

Tools In Our Factory: The CNC Wood Router

At Caretta Workspace, one of the most important pieces of machinery we use is our SCM Routech CNC Router. It's a computer controlled router that cuts along the X, Y, and Z axes. With a 15 horsepower spindle, it can easily tackle our 2.25" thick desk frames, and it has a 12 position automatic tool changer that can quickly switch from one cutter to the next. This allows it to easily cut a variety of profiles, like the bull-nose edge on our desktops, and transition into drilling holes for dowel pins or the inset for a desk inlay.
Eliminating the need for cumbersome clamps, the machine has two 12 horsepower vacuum pumps that create a suction to hold the pieces so firmly in place that they are impossible to move by hand. Although the pumps only produce about 10 psi of vacuum pressure, we design fixtures that maximize the surface area of the part being held. For example, a part that has 25 square inches of surface area to hold down has 250 pounds of force pushing it against the table. This allows us to make large cuts in the wood while the piece is held securely in place. The router is indispensable to our factory because it cuts our wood pieces much faster than we could cut them with traditional woodworking tools and it makes parts with such precision that each part fits perfectly together.


See the router in action here. At 1:40 is a good view of a tool change. At 3:10 you can see the LARGE bull-nose edge cutter in action. Here it is only cutting a half profile. On our large desk tops, it makes a full bull-nose edge.


This is a front view of the CNC Router in action.


Here are the Vacuum pumps that provide the negative air pressure to hold the parts to the table.


Here is the tool changer caddy.


In this Artistic Computer Desk 2, the router was used to make the desk top, desk legs, desk feet, and Artistic Computer Shelf.