Shuffleboard table for fun

Great job Gary. I think this is the first shuffleboard table I have ever seen. Most unique.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Beautiful job Gary

I used to watch my father build a few shuffleboard tables for the local bars years ago.
I really enjoy playing it too.

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wow… Bravo.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

looks fun…makes me want to come over for a cold one and a match…but it would be a long drive…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

dude you are the man!! I was just talking to a freind about builind on e of these the other day in addition this would make a great project to put on my free plan site if you wouldn’t mind??
RJ

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Great job. Gary, I am sending you a PM. Please let me know if you do not get it.

-- John

Did you make the pool table and turn the cues as well? Amazing work Gary…Amazing mahogany highboy, a unique beautiful chessboard, and now this…cool.

I just went through all the pictures and opened the Autocad drawing. Everything you need to build your own…very, very cool. And you did this to take a break?....Wow!

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Norm Abrams look out – Gary could be giving you some stiff competition!

Gary – thanks for posting your creations and for being so nice as to even provide drawings for others to use.

You really are providing a lot of things to promote “humility” in many of your fellow woodworkers (me for sure!).

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

”You really are providing a lot of things to promote “humility” in many of your fellow woodworkers (me for sure!).”

May I echo these words, Tom?

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

Great project Can you hinge the ends to fit in a 12’ room and then lay it out flat through the doorway when you want to play.

Great job and interesting choice of materials. Did you leave the original surface on the Bamboo or did you sand it off. Because you mentioned that you had 1/8” of bamboo on the planks from big blue.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

That’s a great project, Gary! I used to love shuffle board. I can’t remember playing it since I was a little kid, but I think the neighbor had a table. That brought back some nice memories. Thanks!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Thanks for all the comments!

Karson – If you build it, you can do whatever you like. Make it 12’, 10’ or whatever you need to do. Yes, I did sand off the factory finish there is no way to glue up the flooring to be perfectly level and flat. The outside frame is two pieces joined in the middle with splines. I didn’t do that to the playing surface though. If I ever need to I will cut that in half also and use a router to cut slots for splines. As is stands it weighs only about 100 pounds. It’s not that big a project. It took about 1 week to finish.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way & "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle

Thanks for the additional info.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Woodworking (fun) meets fun for the whole family. Nice. I’d get a little intimidated by how perfect the playing surface has to be, and caught up in all those little details. Someday perhaps,...

Great job!

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That sure does’nt look like a workshop to me. So where did you build it.? dNice gaming table. jockmike

-- Mike from Michigan - mwurm13@yahoo.com

Very nice!

I’d hate to think how heavy it is with the 4-5 sheets of 4’x8’ sheets of plywood, 2 boxes of bamboo flooring and some mahogany for the trim.

-- Jesus is Lord!

I’ll tade you for some Ebony? Yea, the whole shuffleboard! I like that game.

Gary, after seeing the construction pictures, I think I want to build one out og mesquite. I would certainly have a problem with it being flat/level though. Could you shed a little light on how to try and make it flat to perfection. I think I would run it through a planer, just need to find one big enough. I’m defenatly gonna check into making one. Thanks for sharing Gary.

It’s not that hard of a project. To flatten the top I just ran it through my drum sander. If you can find someplace with a wide belt sander you have it made. I don’t think I would risk chipout on a planer. Not after all that work. Transporting it in one piece might be a problem. I would make it in two pieces with a spline across the entire end and put then it together dry for running through the sander. That way you would have a seamless joint.

Good luck, and I expect to see it finished here.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way & "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle

Drum sander?, I’m going to try and get one in July at a auction. I will look for plans for a smaller size table. The full scale is the real deal but I have limited space. I have a 15” planer. I dont get chip-out when blades are sharp,$21 to sharpen here, But thats a worthy investment for this project. If I win the sander, I will most definatly post a finished mesquite product. Gary, you just made this project so easy for me. Thanks

Actually this is a smaller table than the regulation one. That’s 22 feet. At 16 feet mine is a medium large one.

You could scale down the plans I posted. Just cut out the middle section and make it narrower to fit your planer if you go that route.

Plans will cost you about $30 on Ebay or about $50 for a book with plans.

Good luck and don’t forget to post it when it’s done.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way & "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle

Gary,
Nice job! They are fun to build. Check out mine. http://lumberjocks.com/projects/858

-- Ryan Corrigan Sadieville, KY http://www.CelticCrossWood.com

is the auto cad link the one that says shuffleboard.dwg ? when i click that all i get are a page full of weird symbols?

-- mike, massachusetts

It’s an AutoCAD file. You need something to read it.

Here is the offical AutoCAD version for free.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=6703438%26siteID=123112

I just tried it and something is wrong. I had to right click and do a save target as. Then before I click save I had to change the file extension to DWG from HTM.

I just switched servers so I’ll have to look into it.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way & "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle

Just to let everyone know, I have fixes the drawing file problem.

It’s now in a zipped file in the link above.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way & "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle

Now that football season is wrapping up, my buddy and I have decided to build a shuffleboard table to occupy that void left from football. Can’t wait to get started, thanks for posting instructions. Hopefully we can make ours look somewhat close to what you have made. Nice work, and thanks again for the post.

Not as easy as 123 for me Gary.

This is really cool! Where did you find some cheap pucks, and is that surface pretty slippery? Maybe you could make some pucks , but how would you make them slide? Shuffleboard pucks are about $10 a piece that I have found. Or could you use regular hockey pucks, but again, I don’t know how to make them slide. Any help would be appreciated.

I bought mine at http://www.zieglerworld.com

$10 each sounds about right. The size you get is determined by the size of table you have.
I wouldn’t try to make them. They are steel and weighted very heavy.

They also sell a powdered wax that you sprinkle in the table to make things slide VERY easily.

Hope this helps.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way & "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle

Pool Table? Shuffle board? how do you find time for woodworking. I would spend all my time goofing off…..of course this is what my wife tells me i’m doing while i’m woodworking. Nice table.

Hey great table Gary. I’m seriously considering giving this one a try. I’m having trouble opening the link you’ve provided for the blueprints above. Any advice on trying to open this? Thank you so much. Again nice table.

waylon – how about this http://www.arealnice.com/shuffleboard/Shuffleboard_Table.zip

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way & "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle

Gary I hate to bother again but my mac cannot open this link either. Any more advice?? Thanks.

Other than get a PC all I can say is to type the link at the top of the page in manually to display the directory contents.

I don’t understand why it won’t work on a MAC. A link is a link.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way & "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle

Hey Gary, unfortunaly i can not open the autocad file. Is it possibel to that you send me a pdf convertet version ?
Kind regards
Matthias

That is awesome! Shuffleboard is the greatest bar game. I know they’re very expensive to buy. I think 12’ boards go for anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 dollars. Very cool! Congrats on a job well done!!!

Thats cool!

-- - Jei, Rockford IL - When in doubt, spray it with WD-40 and wrap it with duct tape. The details will attend to themselves.

I love that game.

-- WEASEL, Anthem AZ