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06-03-2008, 03:56 PM
|  | Big Stack | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Riverview, Fl Age: 36
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I was referring to trying to find a builder more local to you. I recall there being someone around Portland who either builds or built one for themselves. Just can't remember who it was.
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06-03-2008, 04:58 PM
|  | On the Bubble | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Oregon Age: 34
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LOL, that wasn't at you Guma, that was for Stevo.
He has a potentially dangerous amount of confidence in my aptitude with tools.  |
06-05-2008, 09:53 PM
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So, I visited a local cardroom and they had about 9 of these.
And you were right. These tables are...(how to be diplomatic?)... not up to my standards..... |
06-05-2008, 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Felt Lizard  So, I visited a local cardroom and they had about 9 of these.
And you were right. These tables are...(how to be diplomatic?)... not up to my standards..... | Those are manufacture therefore all the material are cheap. Not real wood....
Like most of use mention try a local builder is your best bet. $600-$800 from a builder will blow that manufacture table away. |
06-22-2008, 03:45 PM
|  | On the Bubble | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A state of Missouri
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Honestly, most card rooms are going to have tables that are either inexpensive (junk) or nice tables with very plain accessories. They are just there to accomodate the game and facilitate the earning of money. Check out a custom builder, their "plain jane" tables are usually twice as nice for the same price - for they are built for individual's homes... a totally different customer base. And the tables are true custom pieces - fantastic art. Visit the keen forum and check out the table pictures sticky in the builders area. There you'll find all kinds of ideas/builders. Your budget will probably keep you on the plain jane end of the spectrum.... but it will be twice as any online manufactured table of the same price.
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06-22-2008, 05:08 PM
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i swear by these guys, they have helped all the way and can design to fit a budget.
(i don't know if $500 is the number but i would at least give them a shot.) i am working on one with folding legs right now. 
good luck  Big Slik Poker Tables
michael bershad is the one i have been working with. |
06-22-2008, 10:20 PM
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IMHO, you've just found THE BEST custom poker table maker there is. Eric's tables are always top notch, always classy, always a step above the rest. I've dealt with him on some smaller items (parts - I make my own tables), and he really knows his stuff. Can't go wrong with a Big Slik table!!! Quote:
Originally Posted by beyondtilt i swear by these guys, they have helped all the way and can design to fit a budget.
(i don't know if $500 is the number but i would at least give them a shot.) i am working on one with folding legs right now.
good luck Big Slik Poker Tables
michael bershad is the one i have been working with. | |
06-23-2008, 04:20 AM
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06-23-2008, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by beyondtilt i swear by these guys, they have helped all the way and can design to fit a budget.
(i don't know if $500 is the number but i would at least give them a shot.) i am working on one with folding legs right now.
good luck Big Slik Poker Tables
michael bershad is the one i have been working with. | Has anyone bought a custom table from Big Slik? I am interested in the total cost, including shipping. I understand the cost of the table will vary greatly based on options and design, but I'm interested to know what these things cost. |
07-10-2008, 03:28 PM
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How's this for an update.
Responding to a "table-for-sale" ad, I visit a guy in his home last night. Super nice dude. Says he's made about 15 tables.
He has a 96' oval. Black and tan suited speed, high density closed cell underneath the cloth and 1 inch of the stuff under the black whisper rail.
2 sheets of 3/4 ply, tbolts, super dark brown racetrack with standard size stainless steel cup holders. The damn thing is as solid as a rock dipped in steel reinforced concrete. Every aspect is darn near seamless.
Typical right? I thought so too.
Then he asks me if I've been shopping, and I tell him only online.
He says that there are a few guys locally that do tables, but that they have to use saws or routers to cut the wood. The tone in his voice when he mentioned those tools suggested that he thought it was bad thing. OK...
So I ask him what he uses to make the cuts.
A laser, he says. He's a sheet steel fabricator by day. Likes to doodle table designs in his downtime during the day. "They let me use the machines for side projects. I just plug in the dimensions in the system, put the wood in the machine and let it go. It does all the work. Perfect cuts."
Here's the kicker. The pedestal is metal that he fabricated himself. "I operate the metal press." And it looks GOOD. Very modern.
We switch to talking about his chips (of course) for a while, then his cards. Then we get down to price.
"I've played on the table a few times, so techicnally, it's a demo at this point. (It looks pretty damn near immaculate to me.) I normally make a table, have friends over here to play on it once, then one of them always wants to buy it, so I sell it so I can start on the next one."
"I'd like to sell 'em for about 850, but in these summer months, folks have been on vacation, so I've no games over here the past month, so no real venue to sell it. That's why I put it up on for 700.
I tell him I think the son-of-a-b1tch is spectacular, but that I was in the mood for a table with wider cup holders to accomodate a wider glass. We talk for about 10 minutes about him making me a custom table. Then he suddenly looks at me and says:
"You know what? You seem like a nice guy, and seem to know your poker." How about I sell this table to you for $600, the same price I sell my friends, I'll deliver it to your home, and you take the money you saved and go to IKEA and buy yourself a case of tall cocktail glasses that'll fit this thing."
He "made me an offer...that I couldn't refuse."  |  | |
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