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 Home poker table, John Gamble, 1. Dec 2003 14:56 | ||
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| Building a poker table and looking for any suggestions on the best felt to buy. What weight (oz) and what % felt vs. nylon or other material. Thanks, John | ||
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| Re: Home poker table, ReMMy, 1. Dec 2003 15:10 | ||
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| John, Take a look through the archives, there are a few posts with a lot of information on building tables. ReMMy | ||
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| Re: Home poker table, John Gamble, 2. Dec 2003 13:33 | ||
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| Thank you sir. | ||
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| Re: Home poker table, Candide, 3. Dec 2003 08:55 | ||
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| There were a few posts, shouldn't be too far back, that detailed how to do it. This was from 10/27 or so, though I forget who wrote this. I saved it to do myself: It is easy and quick. I built one in about 3 hours. First, go to home depot, or some other big box store and buy a sheet of chip board and a set of folding metal table legs. When you get home, measure 2' from each end to find the foci of the oval inside the table. What I mean, is find 2 dots, each one 2'X2' for a corner of the table. Now take a 2' long strong, tie a pencil to it, and draw a line on your wood that makes a semicircle from each point. Saw along the lines and you now have a 4'X8' oval table top. Put some scrap 2"X8" or 2"X6" strips under the table and screw them in with a large number of 2 1/4 screws ... then screw the legs into these strips using 2 1/4 screws. Adding these strips will give extra stress absorption to the legs, so if people are leaning on the table it won't pull any screws out. Now you've got a table, but you need to cover it. Go to a carpet place and buy a 5'X9' piece of carpet underpadding. I got some that is thin, yet spongy feeling and water resistant - good when somebody spills a beer. Then go to a fabric liquidator and get a sheet of material to cover the table with. I did mine with army truck camouflage stretch fabric and it worked very well. Put your underpad down on the floor and upend your table onto it. Cut off the excess material, but leave enough to wrap under the edge of the table and staple it there with a staple gun. To go around the round edges, you'll need to make cuts in the underpad ... just do it logically and it'll work fine. Now put the table upright. It is time to put the cloth on. Position the cloth over the table (make sure that everything is the way you want it and start stapling. Make sure that you stretch it as you go. The way to do it is to put one staple at one end, then put a gentle tension into it and put one at the other end. Then one on each of the sides. Then start stretching it into place and stapling it all around, taking out the original 4 staples as you go if you need to.I just took the corners and excess material on the cloth and stapled it to the bottom of the table and you can't tell. If you want to get advanced and put in a dealer tray, a drop box, etc, just cut holes in your wood beforehand and then make slits in your underpad and cloth after it is on. Then you just have to wrap in under the holes. If you want to put a cussion around the edge of the table, get your piece of vinyl and staple the edge of it upside down to the edge of the table. Then put in your filler material and wrap the vinyl around and then staple it to the bottom of the table. You can fill your rail with "pool noodles" ... they are big foam pool toys that are long cylinders and you can slice them into the perfect shape. | ||
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| Re: Home poker table, Crews4Deck, 7. Jan 2004 07:53 | ||
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| Here are some great links for supplies and FREE plans for casino style poker tables. Supplies: http://www.casinosupply.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=THAC Plans for Round Table (gives details which can be used for oval table): http://www.casinosupply.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=BUILD Plans for two types of oval tables: http://www.pokerclub.be/article_rainer_table.htm 1. Start with on 4' : 8' piece of thick plywood. 2. Use a pencil and 2 feet of string to draw half circles, a. Place a nail two feet in from the end of the table b. tie the string on with two feet of length to a pencil. c. draw two half circles on both end of the 3. Cut the outsides of the half circles off. This should leave you with a big oval piece of plywood. 4. Cover and fit out with supplies from above. Ready made tables for ideas: http://www.pokeroutlet.com/lowpriceguarantee.html?referrer=Looksmart Hope these are helpful. KMM | ||
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