Sunday, May 23, 2010

Assembling the Pool Table

This doesn't count as a project because it was just assembling something rather than building or installing, but people kept asking if I was going to do a blog post about it.  To the right is what the table looked like for about 5 months.  I didn't take a picture before I loaded the slate on, and I wasn't about to unload it just for a picture.  The hardest part at this stage was deciding where to place the table in order to maximize the use of the gameroom without constricting play.
I fabricated some floor shims out of a piece of poplar:
Here's the table with slate loaded.  I had to shim each slate level and even with the next, then cover the joints with water putty and sand them down, which created a lot of super fine dust.
Felt stretched across the slate:
Assembled and ready for play:

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