(posted this in a thread where I asked for advice - I'm just going to copy it here and add finished pictures)
Bit hesitant to post my strictly amateur, weekend wood working efforts here, but I am actually quite proud of how things turned out.
I am NOT a carpenter (I teach CAD and CNC), and this is only my second project bigger than a trinket box or pencil case
(Pictures are clickable. Sorry about some of the quality - old camera phone and low light)
Started with these skip finds - about a dozen desk legs and the same amount of 4' long runners, and an old desk top.
Desktop after a quick hand plane'n'sand
Ended up with the two pedestals
Left

Right
The top being worked on
Finished
It's definitely not proper joinery. I didn't have a lot of timber to start with, so everything is actually 3/4" ply 'clad' in 3-4mm veneers I cut from the runners, and because the legs all had big mortises cut out of them on two sides, I resawed those into 50x15mm strips which were also glued to the ply.
I believe the body of the desk is meranti (with identification help from this forum), and I think the top is iroko - its very hard, brittle and the dust is a killer.
My first breadboard ends, my first drawers, and the first piece of large furniture that had to fit together !