Let me tell you how time passes when you have that weird combo of being busy and not and only having the funds to do about half of what you think you want to do and never when you actually have the free time...
There has been no progress on the gaming table. No tangible progress. But man o man has there been cognitive progress.
There are soooooo many YouTube DIY gaming table builds. I mused on this before. Most of them are built by people who are clearly NOT furniture or cabinet makers by any measure of training, but are instead (at best) DIY remodelers. The giveaway isn't that they use fir 2x4s. I get that if you are being cost-conscious, you will not leap out and get maple or walnut or something. I get that most do not have planers or jointers. But, when you use 4x4 and 2x4 and 2x6 AS IS to frame a thing that is ostensibly a gaming table, realize you are building something you could probably park your car on. It's so much overkill. Now there are a couple of DIY vids out there that are cool 3/4" ply and glue and finish nails and put WAY more features and dohickeys into way less weight and ... are on the right track, I guess? But they are also cringe for other reasons and I don't want to dwell on it. SO...
So what about the PRO Built tables out there? Some of those vendors have YouTube channels that show a lot of their process... is there something to be leaned from them? Wyrmwood (oh boy, the BTS trainwreck that is that company is something) has a VERY big tooled up shop, and can mill and joint pretty much anything. Investing in several thousand worth of tools to then use several hundred in materials and time to build a single table seems to almost make just paying top dollar for something like a WW table worth it. To be clear, it would NEVER be a WW table from the current version of the company, but the aren't the only folks who craft tables. Rathskellers has some nice stuff, as do others. Etsy has a bunch of plan sellers, and some of the actual wood workers on YouTube sell plans, too.
But most of the plan sellers are selling the 2x4/2x6 hobbyist level stuff. Whatever is a guy to do?
I have most of a plan worked up that fuses a rathskellers top with a fix this build that base... But it's still a lot of altering of cuts and joints from what the original folks did.
One day. And when it happens, I promise photos!
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Again, not to dwell (6 months later), but there is a 'gaming table' out there built using 4x4s and carriage bolts for legs and 2x6s for the frame. I'm sorry, that's a DECK. You can have a grill and patio furniture ON this 'table'... what the actual hell? How many friends do they have to help them move it?
The best "I don't know what I am doing, but am gonna give this a try" table I've seen out there was put together by a theater guy using mostly 1x3 and 1/2" plywood. He was building for strength and weight and outward appearance and actually did OK. I might see what I can work out using those materials, though (complication) wood costs way too much STILL and I don't have a full time job any more...
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