Table Designs

[Rosscoe]

I'm looking to have a table in my game room and don't exactly know which style or how to make it

I'm looking to either do a 4x8, or two 4x4 boards. The table(s) must be able to have legs removed, folded or stored.

What I am thinking, is using a 4x8 piece of chipboard, reinforced along the length with some 1x3 wood boards to prevent the board from flexing. For legs, I would use two Sawhorse ?

Ideas?

Well for a 4x8 I would suggest making it foldable, even haven it attach in the middle as two seprate 4x4 parts is good to. I would recommend plywood though, I had a chipboard 4x8 sheet I used for a train table top, it damaged easy when moving it around.

[Akahlar]

Sorry to dig up an oldish thread but I'm still catching up from when my system needed repairs.

Space and money are limited here, so like most things my table had to do double duty and be built as funds allowed. This is what I came up with.

I bought folding metal legs at CT (http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/3 ... ?locale=en) and then attached them to a 3/4" sheet of good one side plywood. I glued corner guard (http://loghomeshoppe.com/images/product ... corner.gif <- top one) all around the outside edge, and then sanded finished everything in marine enamel. This is now the base of my multipurpose/need more surface space/game table.

I purchased 1/4" sheets of plywood, removed 1/2" from one side to accommodate the trim and cut them into approximately 2'x2' squares. On each of these I glued 1" pieces of pink Styrofoam or whatever base material I choose (not a traditionalist but we have fun) and created a basic terrain of squares that can be turned different ways, and assembled as small or large as the players choose. I try to do 8 squares of each terrain type so that the maximum game space can be completed but we do have some types that are only 4 squares each.

One closet with 1"x2" straps on each side and 1/4" hardware cloth stapled to them for makeshift shelves gives me lots of room to store the terrain squares and buildings and assorted odds and ends I want to add or remove. The table folds up flat and goes behind the couch.

[Gahris]

Akahlar to the rescue! Good idea with the folding table legs. For $20, did you get both sides of legs?

[Akahlar]

Yes the legs come as a set and there are 3/8" screws with them but I bought wide 1/2" ones to make sure they held

[Suicide_King]

I am buying a pool table then making a removable table top for a gaming surface.

[Akahlar]

I am buying a pool table then making a removable table top for a gaming surface.

I did this in the beginning but sold the table to make room for other things. It works very well but try and get some of those pool noodles to pad the top rails of the table so you don't deaden the bumpers or damage the wood.

[Akahlar]

Since this thread is called table designs I thought I would add this here rather than making a new thread.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Warmachine-Gaming-Table-for-Penny-Arcade/

[Gahris]

Now that is a sweet table. I really like the red LED forge

[Akahlar]

I like that it is modular just like the ones I use now.

[Tokkan]

Niiice. I especially like how the recesses can be used as anchor slots for other terrain features!