Project for Woodworkers

[Munkay]

This is such a cool idea! Any of you woodworkers ever made anything like this?

YouTube - THE MOST AMAZING TABLE EVER

[jenward74]

Yeah, where's the Woodsman tonight, I wanna place an order for one of these!

[fingas74]

I want one.

[gunsnrose]

what the hell kind of table is that, but i do know that i want that trippy table in my dinning room it is really cool

[Munkay]

Woodsman! I'm putting in my order first!

BTW...how much will this cost me?

[Munkay]

Here's another one...but it's not nearly as cool as the first one. Same sort of concept, different mechanism.

YouTube - The Amazing Puzzle Table

[MIGZ]

i bet that first table in the ball park of 3-4K

[SwiCago]

YouTube - DB Fletcher Capstan Ilona expanding table

[Decidion]

MIGZ previously said:

i bet that first table in the ball park of 3-4K

Try adding a zero on to the the end of your numbers. Having worked for a custom high-end furniture designer in my college years, if that first table is built properly with high quality woods and veneers, it would easily go for $30K...the price of your stock FJ

It can sometimes be hard to appreciate the amount of engineering that goes into something like this, especially if is it designed to last for generations....

[Woodsman]

OK, I'm here.

First off, the Fletcher Capstan table was originally designed for a yacht and as Decidion mentioned, with the engineering involved, it would be verrrrrry expensive. Fletcher also had it patented. The construction, fit, finish, and materials must all be absolutely excellent to pull it off.

Compared to the Fletcher table, that "puzzle" table is a joke, though if you had never seen the Fletcher I guess it would seem kinda cool.

I know how to make the tops open and close and how to achieve the lift/drop of the center unit but it would take some real brain-storming to determine how to make them work together. With a project like this, there would be far more time involved with engineering and prototyping than with construction of the final table. With that being said, and do not consider this a firm quote, I'm pretty confident I could knock out a quantity of one for less than 25K. Who's first ?