Tall(er) Cocktail Cabinet

[BlueGhost]

I'm finally starting equipping the gameroom in the new house.


I'm going to build a cocktail cabinet.  The gameroom will also have a pool table.  I think the standard cocktail table height is a little low and asking for someone to get hit in the face with the butt of a pool cue.

Has anyone here built a taller cocktail style cabinet?  I'm thinking kitchen counter height rather than bar height.  I think it would interfere with shooting pool less at counter height.

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[JDFan]

Sounds like a whiskey barrel build would fit the build -

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,131202.0.html

OR

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,146767.msg1527013.html#msg1527013

[lilshawn]

I modded a pokertek machine into a multi in 1 machine. it's a full stool table kind of height...you can easily play standing up.

[BlueGhost]

I think the barrel would protrude out in the room to far by the time I added a round glass top.

The moded video porker might work.

I may just build a midway style cocktail and add 10 inches or so to the height.

The benefits of the midway style is glass, underlays and control paneles are all available for it.

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[yotsuya]

Stay away from the barrels and google “cabertail”

[leapinlew]

I assume the Atari Football arcade game is a bit too big. That was a big fat cabinet, but the height is right.

[BlueGhost]

I think the Atari football style would be a little big.

One thing I thought about is getting a restaurant style table base and build a midway style top for it.  It would be similar to the poker machine above.

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[BlueGhost]

Stay away from the barrels and google “cabertail”

Cabertail could work.  Kind of like a tall cocktail.

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[yotsuya]

Stay away from the barrels and google “cabertail”

Cabertail could work.  Kind of like a tall cocktail.

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Never seen a custom build- you’d be a trailblazer!

[Howard_Casto]

I'd like to see that, or maybe a slimmed-down modernized red tent. 

[PL1]

One thing I thought about is getting a restaurant style table base and build a midway style top for it.

Sounds a bit like mgb's VertiGo.




Scott

[Nephasth]

Shame it wasn't completed...

[BlueGhost]

One thing I thought about is getting a restaurant style table base and build a midway style top for it.

Sounds a bit like mgb's VertiGo.




Scott

That's the basic concept.  I thought I had seen something like it on here before.

I found this while looking for taller cocktail cabinets.

https://imgur.com/gallery/eVJgF

Its tall, but thinner, less boxy than a traditional cocktail cabinet.

[negative1]

The moded video porker might work.

watch out for porky pig:


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[Mr. Peabody]

I modded a pokertek machine into a multi in 1 machine. it's a full stool table kind of height...you can easily play standing up.

That is beau-tiful. Could modify the base and adjust height at whim.

[opt2not]

A taller standing cocktail would be pretty neat. Haven’t seen a completed BYO cab of those completed. Looking forward to what you come up with.

[Howard_Casto]

You've really got to worry about it tipping over though.  The bottom would have to be weighted and I'd still be a little nervous letting kids get around it, ect. 

[lilshawn]

the pokertek machine base is solid cast, weighing in at what i'd guess to be about 150lbs. the center is hollow metal tube (I assume cast aluminum) and the top portion is sheet metal "frame" with a fiberglass outer shell. the entire machine weighs in at a bit over 200lbs and 3/4 of the weight is between 0 and 3 inches off the ground...so it's super stable.

even with the thinner "traditional" cocktail design posted earlier, i think if you threw in a couple 50 lb bags of play sand in the bottom of the cabinet...you'd never have to worry about it being tippy at all.