Not sure this question applies to this forum, but I have been wanting a quality pedestal poker table for some time. However, prices everywhere I looked both local stores and websites, are rediculously expensive.
Anyone know of a source for good plans to poker tables, also where I may buy a turned oak pedestal, along with apron and legs as starter pieces? Buying via internet is fine with me, but if there local outlets, I live in the Boston area.
LDC
Edited 3/10/2003 9:05:12 AM ET by LDC
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have u tried knots?
bobl Volo Non Voleo Joe's BT Forum cheat sheet
You tryin' to set him up or something ???
I can just imagine him going over to knots and posting: "I'm looking for a cheap poker table, and I think custom woodworkers charge way, way too much. I want something really nice but really cheap."
Wonder what kind of response he'd get?I'm not losing hair, I'm getting head.
Boss,
didn't read it that way.
read it as store prices too high.
that doesn't necessarily mean quality.
thought he wanted to make one.
come to conclusion that for quality, having one built for you may in fact be less expensive than store bought.bobl Volo Non Voleo Joe's BT Forum cheat sheet
I just figured the guy would be in for a cold reception over there - Just as someone who came in here and asked about building something cheap.
Tends to make people here bristle a bit.If you can't change your mind, are you sure you still have one?
Never said cheap, rather trying to get QUALITY in a price range I can afford.
So, was that lead to Adams Wood products any use to you, LDC?
You might seriously have considered posting your question over at Knots-- that part of Taunton's forums can be found in the three lines at the top of the page here. Lots of builders here, mostly into houses and that kind of thing. The woodwhackers that knock out tables, chairs, turning, carving, and, er, poker tables-- all that kind of crap, tend to hang out over at Knots.
I'm a bit odd for a furniture maker. Not at all effete and precious, and love to belch and fart with the best of them which is why lurk and post a bit here too. But then I'm a (virtually retired) rugby player, and a perfect example of that sports attendant ability to turn civilised places into miniature examples of Bedlam, which makes American football look a bit, well, pansy'ish, ha, ha. Slainte.Website The poster formerly known as RichardJ-- now Sgian Dubh-- again.
Nah, over there things are pretty genteel compared to here. There's a historical first going on now, an argument. People are ruining perfectly good finishes just worrying about who's going to jump in next. Go hang out, bring your wine glass!" Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you." Hermann Goering to the Prussian police, 1933.
RW
I too thought that things were very mild over there compared to here until I wandered over there one eve. I went to the photo gallery first to see the new masterpieces, low and behold was a thread going on about weather or not someone was posting pics of someone else's work, some of the "banter" thrown about would make the people over here blush. I now think that they are just as uncivilized as we here.
Doug
More than enough responses I would think, Boss to get him/her going. As well as us allegedly snooty types of Knotheads, there are plenty of us that like too to save a penny or two as well, ha, ha.
Adams Wood products might be a place to start, http://www.adamswoodproducts.com for legs and the like.
As to the implication that custom furniture makers like myself tend to be overpriced, it's a perception I come across often enough. After all, any able bodied fool can swing a hammer and bend a few nails, and many do just that and think they are pretty skilled woodworkers. There's nothing that can be done to prevent that perception really, except to actually watch and work with a skilled woodworker for a day or two, whether it be a carpenter, furniture maker like me, cooper, or whatever.
In the city I live in you can buy a dining table and six chairs for less than ~US600, and people carry these sorts of figures around in their heads as a base 'fair' price. It is, for mass produced items of a fairly low quality, but completely out of the loop for custom work of course. Well, there's not much of a call for mass produced gaming tables of any sort, including poker tables, so prices are likely to be perceived as high if these things are compared to the department store dining table and chairs I mentioned earlier.
I have some knowledge of the custom gaming table market. I've made a few, as you you'll find if you do a bit of clicking below, and none that I've made are what you'd call cheap. The examples I've made aren't intended to be especially 'pretty' as they're destined for a hard life of itinerant one night casino parties-- they are trucked, stored, assembled and disassembled 200-- 250 times a year.
The all expenses spared KD craps tables I make start at about $3,000, and go up from there. The typical craps table put into some of the casino's in Lost Wages start at about $20,000, and go up to about $40,000. They typically last about a year, and after that they are dumped on the secondhand market for lesser casinos to snap up, and are replaced with new ones. Slainte.Website The poster formerly known as RichardJ-- now Sgian Dubh-- again.