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Title: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: eyal8r on December 20, 2004, 11:45:33 am
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?
Title: Re: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: SirPoonga on December 20, 2004, 01:13:38 pm
First you need to find the dimensions.
Title: Re: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: Generic Eric on December 20, 2004, 01:40:33 pm
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.
Title: Re: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: neuromancer on December 20, 2004, 03:11:00 pm
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
Title: Re: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: ErikRuud on December 20, 2004, 03:46:03 pm
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

Title: Re: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: Generic Eric on December 20, 2004, 03:52:53 pm
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?

Quote from: ErikRuud on December 20, 2004, 03:46:03 pm
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.
Title: Re: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: wj2k3 on December 20, 2004, 04:06:21 pm
Plans on Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=234&item=5944664139&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW)
Title: Re: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: billf on December 20, 2004, 05:09:52 pm
Quote from: generic_eric on December 20, 2004, 03:52:53 pm
Not to be overly particular,
Title: Re: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: Ken Layton on December 20, 2004, 06:38:33 pm
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.
Title: Re: [OT] Building a Shuffleboard Game?
Post by: Generic Eric on December 20, 2004, 06:57:34 pm
Quote from: wj2k3 on December 20, 2004, 04:06:21 pm
Plans on Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=234&item=5944664139&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW)

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 (http://www.shuffleboardtableplans.com/Default.aspx?tabid=91) for some examples of the tables built with the plans.