Easy to Build Play Table!
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2023
- Whether it's Thomas the Tank Engine, Lego or Barbie, this build is a great addition to the home and will help give hours of fun for the littles ones together with storage for their toys. For less than £30 of materials, this piece of DIY furniture will pay for itself time and time again.
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I bought an ikea lack coffee table discounted at $9.99 to hack and do something like this for my son as a play table. Seeing this has given me great ideas for exactly what to do! Thanks for sharing
You could always use one of those play mats that have roads, trees ect on them cut down to size instead of painting the infrastructure part.
You can do
Or blackboard paint, then kids can draw in their own landscape. Different each time!
Awesome stuff! Puts me to work... Again!😂
Great for grandkids, certainly the landscape is sort of good and remember they laughed at Picasso in the beginning so maybe it will end up on the Antiques Roadshow one day!
It could become a collectors item!
Great idea, hope I remember to come back here and watch this again when my 4 month old grandson is of an age to appreciate one 😊
Those crossfades between marking and cutting (e.g. at 4:21) are masterful - great editing. You're the Orson Welles of DIY youtube!
I owe you a debt of gratitude for the inspiration. I wish I had your tools, but being 72 years old, those power saws scare the life out of me which is very limiting. I've copied your plans for installing an outside light though. Next summer I will be stealing your plans for garden planters and tables. Thank you so much.
I’m going to build a couple of versions of these for my beautiful grandson’s 👍 excellent as always Stuart, thank you 👍👍
Track saws are great for doing those kind of rips, but when you join the two pieces of track together 3:15, it’s really best to get them straight and aligned by pushing them against a straight edge, eg a spirit level. Just using the jointing bars alone is likely to result in a slight kink in the track
the production quality of these videos is so good with the camera shots, tv standard.
Most enjoyable. That's a great play-table and I hope it's joyfully being used by whomever the child[ren] was who received it. I love the hand painted scene. 🥰
Very impressive Stuart. I have no doubt your play table would be much more solid and better made than something three times the price off the shelf of any well known store!
I like watching your channel because I can get either other ideas or use some of your techniques for other projects.
Nice wee keepsake for the grandkids. Take care & stay safe.
Thanks, you too!
My daughter's first birthday is coming up and this has inspired me to build her a toy box with a painted lid for playing on. Brilliant idea
lovely!
lovely project
Superb job. Nice idea and very, very well executed.
Great job 👏🏼
Great idea Stuart and expertly done. Great video.
Thank you
Absolutely brilliant Stuart! I bet your grandchildren love you. 😊
Great project Stuart 👌
Thanks 👍
Lovely job. 2 weeks between videos. We need more.
Great project
Thank you
Thanks for the video Stuart,really useful play area.👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Just starting out, many thanks for this idea!!
See you soon!
Thanks Stuart, another well thought out and accessible project with some great tips thrown in !
It wouldn't take much to adapt this to be a sand-box table, maybe making the top to fit a plastic garden tray.
Great Idea, looks very useful and doesn't break the bank. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks for watching!
Nice video!!
Thanks!
Great video, and something I may well have to attempt for the kids
Thanks
What a great present whether for Christmas or a birthday. Said once you had a track saw you would never look back😂 keep the great content coming please 👍😃
Thanks Simon
I have a cheap Erbauer Track / plunge saw but I find I much prefer my cabinet table saw and a router table for most work. I'd love one of those radial saws like they have in Selco. I've seen them portable wheeled out of large vans for site use but sadly they are far too expensive for me.
It would be a neat improvement if the table had a really nice looking lid, that you can add on for when the grand children are not there.
Hi Stuart, I'm really pleased with the growth this channel has received, I've been a subscriber since very early on when I was researching how to install a washing machine. Please can you make more maintenance videos and how to fix things around the house rather than new build projects. The builds are entertaining of course but I miss the practical advice and the usefulness that the earlier videos had. Thank you 🙂, Sam.
Thanks Sam - I'll see what I can do.
That's a great little project. Just thinking of changing the screws that fix the sides on with bolts and fix threaded inserts into the sides. Means it can be dismantled for storage/transport any time and assembled again without the risk of the screws chewing the wood up each time. I really need to get me a track saw.
That's exactly what I was thinking, so obviously a good idea ! 😉
The amount of toys and trains my kids have i would need to make a table 10 times that size 😂😂
Using some white screw covers will hide those remaining few screws well enough, while leaving it easily accessible for possible future disassembling. And it's easier than filler + paint touch-ups.
Not safe for little ones though - choking hazard !
@@andyc972 I suppose that's possible. Though I don't really see my little one going for them. But he is more of a 'falling hazard baby' than a 'choking hazard baby', so I'm not really used to looking out for choking hazards. 😅
it is very nice, but iv'e found from making them train tracks you may want to change layout or extent and you will quickly run out of table room.
Fantastic project Stuart. You've inspired me to make this for my nephews for xmas. Are there plans available for the sizes/ cuts?
Thanks
As a total spotter for gadgetry, I do radius cuts with a router following templates I make on my 3d printer.
Geek? Moi? How very dare you!
Wish u were my dad lol legend.
Printed playmats available for around £12 ($15) - easier than painting!
One thing really confused me: How to get from the road to the parking place?
Just kidding. Nice job!
Would be nice to glue a few large 32x32 Lego plates on top
Can do - or just have another thin sheet of MDF the same size to lay over with the plates on
So can we officially say you’ve made your first river table? 🙂
Regarding the plunge cut with the track saw, is there another way to make it if you don't have one?
Hand saw
Wonder if stuart built this for himself to play with :)
As an engineer with your experience working on live construction sites I was surprised to see you wearing gloves when operating rotating equipment.
Don't listen to the softies in the comments section, metal is always appropriate and appreciated
I’d leave the heavy metal for your plasma torch in future. I thought you had a good taste in music. Actually when you first started the channel I was sure that you must of had a son or daughter doing your editing since the music was always good. Haha
So you watch all the videos but only throw an insult. The law of probabilities 200k plus there will always be a few.
Don't really need the heavy metal music!
Great video Stewart, would have been so much better without the head banging music!
Music much too loud
On my device the level was perfect for the part it played in the video. IMO
£30 on materials but the cost of the workshop, belted sanders, table top routers and not using masks when sanding MDF... seriously money for the setup and then serious lung damage from the MDF particulates.
still doesn't work ... laugh ... 😳
Congrats on the soon to be grandad title? 😅
Cutting MDF without a dust mask...not so clever diy