Music Workstation / Synthesizer Desk Idea

More of a "here's an idea" than a "how to," this was an easy way to achieve what I needed for a small home studio area. You can get everything you need at the big home supply / hardware stores but the pipes may be a bit greasy so you might have to clean them. An alternative is a company that sells pipe specifically for decor (you could try BrooklynPipe.com or Pipe-Decor.com). Here's what I used but of course cut the wood and purchase the pipe length/width to suit your own setup.
Tabletop (x1) 60" x 24'
Speaker shelves (x2) 9.75" square
Main legs supporting tabletop (x4) 24" and 3/4" width
Pipes joining tabletop to speaker shelves (x2) 4"
Extra support legs supporting speaker shelves (x2) 30"
(The wood is 3/4" thick and I found that the end caps added a bit more length than the flanges, which is why the 30" legs in back worked out alongside the main 24" legs plus the 4" speaker legs.)
Pipes and fittings come in various lengths / widths and there are various small extension pieces (no cutting or welding necessary). I used 3/4" but other common options are 1/2" and 1" or much thicker depending on where you buy them.
For the height I went a bit lower than most tables at 24" because I wanted to make sure any equipment I raise up in the future isn't too high to play. You might like your table a bit higher (I saw 30" pipes available or you could go with 24" and use extension fittings).
I saw some decent pre-cut smaller pieces of plywood wood but if it's not big enough you may have to buy a really big piece and save some for another project. I think I got a piece that was about 8' x 8'. The stores will usually make a few cuts for you to make sure it fits in your car, so if you don't own a saw but you plan well you could have them make a few of these cuts to be the sizes you already need for your project.
The screenshots of the angled fittings displayed towards the end of the video show you that you could achieve an angled shelf, maybe for a desktop synth, pedal, or mini keyboard. I haven't thought it through completely but what I had in mind for preventing the equipment from sliding off the angled shelf was to add an additional pipe piece (plus an end cap) jutting upwards at about 30 degrees from the lower part of the shelf top. The weight of the equipment would therefore be partially distributed onto the metal of the pipe, so it would be good to put some kind of rubber around it for padding.
Would love to see if anyone else does something like this. Pipe isn't a new idea for projects like this (hence the pipe decor stores) but for me it was a convenient choice.

[@MorningStrategy]

Nice reminder how easy it is to diy this kind of thing. I find myself drooling over expensive desks that I know wouldn't fit my custom needs. This is cheaper, and arguably more flexible/modular, in that you can add/subtract sections as your setup changes.

[@pjamesbridge]

Exactly! And because you can get the parts relatively cheaply and reuse some of them (at least the pipes) there's the further ability to change things up as your needs change.

[@seanrichards8774]

I once built a table EXACTLY like this!

[@pjamesbridge]

Pretty good easy option, no? I'll probably do something like this again at some point in the future I'd imagine.