Much depends on the type of equipment you have, or plan to eventually buy. If you own smaller equipment, such as an IC-7300, its shallow depth and small size will work fine on most commercially made desks, and still leave enough desk space in front of the equipment. But if you own larger equipment, such as large transceivers or amplifiers (or plan to eventually buy larger equipment), odds are commercially made furiture will not provide you with necessary depth. Personally I like to at least have at least one foot of desk space depth in front of the equipment for paperwork, keys, etc, and some of my equipment is over 20" deep. Also as pointed out above, commercially made furniture probably will not have the necessary openings to run cabling, so you'd have to modify it. The equipment bench I am currently building is 36" deep by 8' wide. This desk depth provides 20 to 22" of depth for the equipment, and 14 to 16" of space in front of the equipment. PM sent.