btownqb Posted April 13, 2020 Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 I'm going build an 11ft shuffleboard table this coming weekend. I bought a house the end of Jan... solid home cosmetic wise. All we did was paint and had to replace some stuff in the two showers, and I removed 8 smaller trees and bushes. After that I went right to work on the garage (man cave)... hung a TV, dartboard, sold the deep freeze (for room), hung 4 shelves, put up a ceiling storage part to hold the outdoor seat cushions. Put some posts up to hold my beer while I play cornhole too. Has anyone ever built one or anything like it? Tips anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted April 13, 2020 Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 I'm not the guy to ask on construction projects. Good luck with building shuffleboard. My friend has one in his basement but all he did was call some area bars and made them an offer after they closed or were going out of business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted April 13, 2020 Report Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Seeking6 said: I'm not the guy to ask on construction projects. Good luck with building shuffleboard. My friend has one in his basement but all he did was call some area bars and made them an offer after they closed or were going out of business. I agree with what your friend did...go find a "used" one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerBQ Posted April 14, 2020 Report Share Posted April 14, 2020 I’ve never built a shuffleboard table so I may be way off. For an 11ft table I’d try to get about 40 maple 12’ 1x3s and glue them together to make a 3” (will really be 2.5”) thick slab that is 30” wide and 12’ long. Then just cut it down to 11’ total. The toughest part looks like flattening a slab that size. A lot of it could probably be done with the finish if you use self leveling epoxy, but I don’t know if there is a special finish you need. The rest is pretty much just a box with some type of carpet to reduce noise and bouncing. Keep us updated on what you do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted April 14, 2020 Report Share Posted April 14, 2020 So back in the day, I use to resurface bowling lanes...big business in the 70s. And surprisingly a little dangerous too... In the late 70s, bowling alleys started replacing old wooden lanes which needed refinishing every 2 or 3 years (at a considerable cost) with a synthetic that never needed resurfacing... There was a guy in Franklin, that every time we would replace the wooden lanes with PERMALANE, he'd buy the old ones and make shuffleboard tables out of them. He had a pretty good business for a while. Said it was easy to put them together too... So, if you can find old bowling lanes, might give it a try... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted April 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2020 23 minutes ago, IUFLA said: So back in the day, I use to resurface bowling lanes...big business in the 70s. And surprisingly a little dangerous too... In the late 70s, bowling alleys started replacing old wooden lanes which needed refinishing every 2 or 3 years (at a considerable cost) with a synthetic that never needed resurfacing... There was a guy in Franklin, that every time we would replace the wooden lanes with PERMALANE, he'd buy the old ones and make shuffleboard tables out of them. He had a pretty good business for a while. Said it was easy to put them together too... So, if you can find old bowling lanes, might give it a try... Yes.. I've been trying to find some bowling lanes. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted May 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 Here was the end result. I'm more than pleased with it. Pucks slide tremendously well and consistent. Sooo glad I decided to put the wheels on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted May 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 For the playing surface I found a 8ft×18in×1in and it worked perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 21 hours ago, btownqb said: Here was the end result. I'm more than pleased with it. Pucks slide tremendously well and consistent. Sooo glad I decided to put the wheels on it. Looks good bro...but no electronic scoring? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted May 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 3 hours ago, rico said: Looks good bro...but no electronic scoring? LOL Haha negative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 3 hours ago, btownqb said: Haha negative. Forgot to add that it is very impressive work for using an electric chainsaw to make all those precise cuts! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted May 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 1 minute ago, rico said: Forgot to add that it is very impressive work for using an electric chainsaw to make all those precise cuts! LOL 😂😂😂😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefftheref Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 Looks great. Nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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