HMS Gaming Table
4 - You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings
With the basic frame built, the next task was building something to store drinks which would be done by attaching two womgs the the table – the wings. The design I had in my mind was a simple L shaped shelf with the upright running along the edge of the gaming area and providing quite a nice boundary whilst also preventing bottles, glasses or cans from being knocked into the game area. This shelf would have some small struts attached to the bottom which could then be fastened to the main table frame. Because the overall width of the gaming surface is actually slightly larger than 1200mm (4′) i had to place a couple of the plywood sheets on top to get the spacing right for the shelves. To prevent them moving I screwed them onto the frame whilst the shelves were being fastened on. I cut the struts bigger than needed to ensure I had some room to adjust the table width to the correct size. The final result can be seen below, at this stage it’s starting to look like my original vision, with a few design tweaks of course.
The shelves are built from.
• Upright 200mm x 18mm sanded timber
• Shelf 180mm x 18mm sanded timber
• Struts 44mm x 44mm sanded timber
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