Quoted from Keyboard Tray Part 3

...I'm intending to rework how this is mounted to my desk to let me get rid of the spacer blocks on the top that stop this from running directly into my knees.

First I'm gonna mount another board to the bottom of my desk near the front, where the old crossbar used to mount to the desk. Then I'll remove the clamps from the mount, screwing the mounting mechanism directly into the new board.

Once I do that, I should have the keyboard tray mounted firmly to my desk at about the same height it's currently at, but without any unsightly clamps/spacer blocks taking up a ton of room on the top of my desk...

Okay it ended up taking a month, but I have done it!

Wanted to get the way this worked improved before my new Unicomp keyboard shows up tomorrow. Wanted to have this thing nice and solid for my experience using that, and I'm pretty happily at that stage now with the tray

Really, the only complication in the whole process was that getting the clamps off was a bit...

...Complicated

Hehehehe

Overall, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. It could definitely still use a coat of woodstain at some point to make the tray match the desk a bit better.

Functionally though, this is pretty much perfect. As long as nothing on it breaks, this tray will live as long as this desk does.