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 Building a poker table? Anyone have any advice?, John Juras, 31. Aug 2003 17:25 | ||
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| Does anyone know a good online site that offers advice/directions on how to build a poker table? Rougly a 10-player Hold Em table. Has anyone here built one themselves? thanks John | ||
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| Re: Building a poker table? Anyone have any advice?, MozMan, 31. Aug 2003 21:30 | ||
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| Hey- Do a search on this. Someone posted a link to some plans a while back that looked pretty nice. I don't remember how long ago it was, so I'm not sure if it would be in the archive section, but you can search both. -Moz "I'm a well-wisher, in that I don't wish you any specific harm." | ||
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| Re: Building a poker table? Anyone have any advice?, stdioh, 2. Sep 2003 12:26 | ||
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| I've built one and posted about it here in the past. It is cheap and easy if you do it right. When I build things I'm all about utility, so if you want to make something out of burl walnut that'll be worth a fortune in 200 years, don't listen to me, but if you want something that'll work great, I'm your man. Here's what you do. Buy a sheet of chip board from home depot, a bunch of screws at 2 1/4" and a bunch of screws at 3/4" and a pair of folding metal table legs. Find the two points 2' away from each edge and mark them. Now with a pencil and a string, draw two semicircles that'll cut out the corners. Saw away and you'll have a nice oval table top. Screw on some scrap 2X6 in 4 places to make a mount for the legs (it'll be lousy if you screw them right into the chipboard) and then screw the table legs into the mounts. Be sure that everything is good and square. Now you've got a decent table and if you use a lot of screws it'll be solid as all hell. At this point if you're planning a tray, drop boxes, cup holders, etc, cut holes for them all, but I go plain jane with mine so that it can be used as a dining table for guests etc (a good table cloth and nobody will know the difference). Now you're going to want to cover your table. Go to a carpet place and pick up a piece of underpad that'll more than cover the top. I go for very thin, water resistant underpad. It'll give the surface of the table some sponginess. Lay it out on the floor and upend your table onto it. With a staple gun, start stapling underpad. Since you've got round edges you'll need to start cutting wedges out of it as you fold it under, but this should be intuitive. Now go to a mill ends store and pick up a piece of fabric - it doesn't need to be felt. I built mine using armytruck camouflage stretch fabric and it looks like a million bucks. Put the table right side up and attach the tabric, though you won't need to cut wedges...just stretch and staple and fold. Make sure that when you put the fabric on you stretch it as you go. I first anchor two adjacent sides with a couple of staples each, then stretch and anchor the other two sides, then go from there. Just make sure that the fabric is snug onto the table. If you want to, you can cut off your excess fabric, but I just stapled it underneath. You're done. Now if you had cut holes for the trays and such you could carefully cut through the ffabric, stretch it into the holes, staple there too, put in trays, etc...but that's a lot of work. | ||
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| Re: Building a poker table? Anyone have any advice?, John Juras, 2. Sep 2003 15:16 | ||
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| Thanks a lot man, GREATLY appreciated w/ the step-by-step instructions. | ||
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| Re: Building a poker table? Anyone have any advice?, CraigTauterouff, 2. Sep 2003 15:24 | ||
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| My grandfather gave me these instructions he has built one also! Make it so that the top does not flip (unlike some of those store-bought poker tables) By making it so that it doesn't flip, this allows you to make extra-deep drinkholders (very important) and a removable center felt area Then make a hidden drawer (false apron on one side) for the poker chips and money bank You can use whatever wood that you may have access to but 5/4 red oak, with solid 8/4 for the legs would be good to go For the 'finish', a gel stain followed by several coats of polyurethane, rubbed out with steel wool and wax would also be ideal For the felt, remember that you can use any high quality billiards cloth. | ||
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| Re: Building a poker table? Anyone have any advice?, stdioh, 3. Sep 2003 16:09 | ||
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| No problems...glad I could be of help. I hope it goes well...let me know how it turns out. | ||
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