The desk top is 3/4” oak plywood with a  solid oak trim border .
I made a  shallow kerf cut in the border for a walnut border inlay. 
The drawers are solid oak with solid walnut drawer front’s ,flat aluminun bar  stock for drawer slides and 1/4” oak plywood bottoms . The desk has 8 coats of clear polyurethane
  The desk can be disassembled by one person in about a minute without any tools  . The desk top has a pocket that fits over the  U shaped oak glass top surround assembly and just  lifts off , then the top  oak surround lifts off the glass panels , then each glass panel can be pulled out of their   1  3/4” deep pocket’s  in the lower oak surround . I used a 3/8” router bit instead of a mortiser to make the top half of the  slots for the glass so I would get a smooth slot and then a  mortiser to go down the rest of the way that the router bit couldn’t reach .
 When I was building this I thought the glass might not fit tight in the slots and the desk might not be solid so after I cut the router slots I put the oak on a table saw with the blade raised about   1  1/2 ” and  cut a kerf thru the remaining 1/4” floor of the slot and about 2” past the front and rear of the slots . I installed the decorative flat head allen screws and cap nuts about 1” from each edge of the glass panels and tightened the allen screws to squeeze the wood and hold the glass like a vise . As it turned out the glass fit so snug I didn’t need the screws after all .
 Dale Nowak , Perrysburg , Ohio

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