Work on the bean bag toss game finished today. Suprisingly to me, I squeezed this in during halts on the poker table. Per my usual, I underestimated the time it would take. I did have a good feel for project steps and it was well within my tool and skill level to [...]
The poker table project is done (see image below, with my “supervisor” approving of the work). Considering I started just 3 weeks ago (and frittered away the first week really) not too bad. Like any of my projects, there are things I’d do much differently the second time. Before I forget, I [...]
Out of all the project steps, this one is most definitely a two person process. Not understanding how much foam I’d truly need I bought a 1 inch High Density roll from Jo Ann’s. One thing is certain…I had no clue how expensive foam is. When it came time for this step [...]
Included below are images for the table top itself. The red felt really looks nice, and is snug against the top. Underneath there is some “headliner foam”. In retrospect, I may have used thin bubble wrap stuff because the headliner foam was dang expensive. But not as much as the whisper vinyl.
Here’s the felt mounted [...]
The poker table project kicked off just before Shelley left for a “she-cation” to the NW. As I posted before, I used Mark Junell’s approach as my starting point Link. But I wanted to modify what he did a bit because he used 3 sheets of 3/4 plywood for his table. 3/4 [...]