balognaFALCONahhaha like your way of thinking ..i did the same for my desk ..got the feet and the framework from ikea (GALANT desk without the table top) and went to a home depot and got a pice of wood painted it and voila..
But one little problem i forgot and that was the quality of the wood and the affect it would have after i was done staining it with a couple of coats. The result is a nice finch but the wood started to curve just slightly because i applied more paint on one side. And the wood was not hardwood but a regular plain wood type..
Remember that cutting a pice of real hard wood is very hard to do..And you want a type of hardwoord if you are going to use it with your hands (skin oils and so on).