80% Completion Report

I feel like the table is about 80% done and I’m very happy with it. The only things remaining are the drawers, table leaves, dice towers, and the actual play surface (thinking about microsuede or velvet over neoprene).

• Time spent so far: ~150 hours. That doesn’t include time planning in Sketchup, which was at least a couple of dozen more hours.

• Wood cost is $1,015 so far, and I still have to get boards for the table leaves. I didn’t include the cost of the two huge boards that were on the wood rack for years, as I have no memory what they cost at the time! But an additional $500 wouldn’t be too crazy of an estimate.

• Hardware (slides, cupholder inserts, hinges) costs are $675. This could have been much lower with cheap hinges from Amazon. But you can’t beat Brusso, but you definitely pay for the quality.

• I spent around $700 on various tools (track saw, fold down saw horses, pocket hole jig) and drill bits (90mm bit for the cupholders), but I’ll be using them on future projects, so I could probably amortize the cost of those.

Considering the table that I pulled my research photos from starts around $21,000 for the same size as mine, I’m coming out pretty far ahead!

Took a few beauty shots and a couple of videos:

A walkaround:

And the finished player stations:

Finally, the chatoyance of this wood! Sapele never disappoints!