Few of the tables I have made over the years in Australia (2 Viewers)

[mickAus]

Here are a few of the tables I have made in Australia over the last 20 years.

After having the same table for the last 15 years (green cloth raised rail) I decided to build a new one. I needed to down size as the green table was a little to big for the space it was in (after we moved 10 years ago lol). I downsized to a 180cm x 120cm (70inch x 47inch) which is a great size for the room I have, and it can seat 8 if needed, but seats 6 very comfortable. I love the simplicity of the grey cloth, black raised rail, black skirting and legs. Options are pretty limited in Aus for cloth so I might have to splash out and upgrade to a custom cloth in the near future. Ill probably upgrade the chairs in the near future also.

I also made several carts to go with it, after seeing @justsomedude post from back in 2016, and have removed my shuffletech out of the green table and installed it into a drink cart. I'm still deciding if I'm going to put wheels on them or not.

The red round table was one of my favourites to play on years ago, but just needed one a little bigger for a bit more space. I hate the look of seams in the rail and couldn't be bothered trying to stretch the vinyl over a larger round table so had to settle with the 180 x 120 lol.

Enjoy

 

[drdr]

Nice chairs, got them too.
I like the blue/purple table. Any possibility of sharing the build blueprint? I'm really curious about the different ways people build such raised rails.

 

[bigblind]

Nice work

 

[smashed_potato]

Love the shuffler cart. Lovely tables.

 

[Chips523]

Great looking tables!

 

[mickAus]

Nice chairs, got them too.
I like the blue/purple table. Any possibility of sharing the build blueprint? I'm really curious about the different ways people build such raised rails.

I dont really have a blue print as such. Theres lots of ways people build their raised rails. I keep it simple and build my raised rail tables out of 3 sheets of ply/mdf depending on budget etc.

Top sheet is the rail.

Middle is the raised rail portion. I separate into the inner and outer. Inner is the part that is shown and is covered in edge banding to what ever finish you want. The outer is attached to the rail, with the foam and vinyl wrapping around it.

The bottom is the playing surface and the edge is also cut out and edge banded on the outside to give it a nice finish underneath. If that all makes sense lol.

Here are some photos I took along the way. Hopefully you can get what I mean from them.

 

[mickAus]

Love the shuffler cart. Lovely tables.

Thanks, I used my left over rail foam inside the cart to help reduce the noise of it significantly. When they are mounted in the table they are so loud.

 

[mickAus]

I picked up the legs and skirting from an old table advertised for free on FB marketplace . I got rid of the top and gave the legs and skirting a bit of a sand and some black paint and they came up great. Here are the photos from the FB marketplace add.

 

[Newenne]

I want to be this handy some day

 

[mickAus]

I want to be this handy some day

mate its not that difficult start out with a simple oval design, no raised rail and go from there. I didn't post the photos of the terrible tables I built when I first started making them

 

[Newenne]

mate its not that difficult start out with a simple oval design, no raised rail and go from there. I didn't post the photos of the terrible tables I built when I first started making them

it's definitely on my list of things I want to do. Never occurred to me to pinch the legs of an existing table, haha

 

[mickAus]

it's definitely on my list of things I want to do. Never occurred to me to pinch the legs of an existing table, haha

the bets part is that that "stained pine" style isn't very popular in homes these days so you can get them pretty cheap, if not free.