[OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?

[eyal8r]

Has anyone ever built one of these things?  Costco Home has them for sale for quite a few thousand dollars- this is my all time favorite bar game! I'd like to have one eventually, but, am considering building one now. Has anyone attempted to do this?

FYI- these are those very long games, where the metal puck slides down a long wooden alley and knocks eachother off for points. You sprinkle sand on the wood so the pucks slide easier. It's a very gentle/delicate game to master!

I would think it'd be tough to build it just right to get them all the slide evenly and whatnot...
Any ideas?

[SirPoonga]

First you need to find the dimensions.

[Generic Eric]

This summer someone had posted to a link on ebay for a set of plans.   I don't recall the exact, price but I think it was about $35.  The price of the materials and miscellanous cost around $850.  Maybe it was more, I don't remember.

Give ebay a shot though, you might find it.

[neuromancer]

Not even on the topic of the post, but:

Durring the olympics they had one of those fluff pieces on the women's curling team, and they showed a minature curling table. It was about 3 feet long and the "stones" were some sort of ball bearing things with bumpers.

It was way cool!

Bob

[ErikRuud]

Those sound like the pucks from the old Rebound game from Ideal.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2533&item=5944448653&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[Generic Eric]

Not to be overly particular,  but I think you are looking for Shuffle shot.  Isn't shuffle board the game shaped in a triangle that old people use as stick to play with on cruises?

Those sound like the pucks from the old Rebound game from Ideal.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2533&item=5944448653&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Holy crap!  I used to have one of those, I forgot all about it.

[wj2k3]

Plans on Ebay

[billf]

Not to be overly particular,

[Ken Layton]

Actually tavern style shuffleboard playing surfaces are VERY HEAVY and VERY LONG! Don't forget the special "Climatizers" attached to the bottom of the playing surface.

A real shuffleboard playing surface will break or crack under it's own weight and must be supported at all times.

[Generic Eric]

Plans on Ebay

Good man!

http://www.shuffleboardtableplans.com/

Well shucks...dunno what its called now?  meh & *shrug*  Either way, now you have a source for the plans

Check out this page for some examples of the tables built with the plans.