The main desk is concrete. Here the pouring form and the rebar skeleton are being prepared.

Pouring the concrete.

Concrete fresh out of the mold. It is still soft and claylike.

The cured concrete in the shop.

The concrete was acid stained. Here the acid is drying.

I used a full size stencil of the return to position the piece on the wood's grain.

Fitting the return. This is a template of the return; the real return will be cut to exactly the same shape.

The legs and monitor support come together.

The legs are laminated ash boards inside. This is the top half of a leg. The tenon in the foreground will fit through a hole in the concrete and into a mortise in the leg's bottom half.

Test fitting the upper legs and the monitor support.

Gluing the edge banding onto the return. Need more clamps!

The keyboard section partly assembled. The top and bottom surfaces are veneered. The thicker pieces will be glued on and given a quarter-round shape.

Veneering a leg's lower section.

Fitting it all together.

Attaching the leg to the return.

Test fitting the intersection of legs, concrete and return.

Fitting the pieces together.

Bringing the countertop (foreground section) to the concrete and keyboard sections.

Fitting the joints where concrete, keyboard section, and countertop meet. When finished, these three surfaces will be flush.