some woodworking advice: when using the circular saw, use blue painters tape over the cut to help prevent that tearout. you can also use a sacrificial piece of wood, but usually tape is easier. to help make those galvanized plates on the bottom, you could use a router to make a slight inset for them to sit flush. the metal corner brackets can be covered with an angled piece of wood. this makes it look a bit nicer, and prevents things from getting lost in the corner. rounding over the edges of the top rails and topper will help the edges from feeling sharp, and will prevent catching fabric planning a table out beforehand can help a lot. you can use a free version of SketchUp with very little experience to model a table. they have a 3d warehouse that has most Ikea components already modeled, so you can just add what you want to them. this helps with discovering problems like the legs being too tall and needing to get cut down, having a topper that isn't quite large enough, or buying the right thickness of wood.
I happen to own this IKEA table model and this DIY is incredibly inspirational. Also quite impressive when you consider that board gaming tables are very expensive, and this one looks really amazing for just 200$. Adding cup trays and trays that could mount on some rails wouldn't add more than a 100$ to the overall cost. Great work, both table-wise and content wise.
I know you didn't use the original ledge but painters tape at the cut line where you accidentally had to much would have fixed the chipping issue when cutting with the circular saw. Great Video I watched from beginning to end.
@@Shelfside we havent played it yet, its with 2 other games on the shelf which we will endeavour to play when the time is right (for info: Splendor Duel and Terraforming Mars) - fuck, I'm at Stage 4 buy buy buy aren't I...
Goto a Thrift store and find a Old Table made of good Woods, if your going to sand and stain it, thats normally why they are sold, because scratched up !
Okay hear me out: You drill blind holes into the side rails, match marking the tabletop. Drill short blind holes into the tabletop, slightly smaller than the holes in the side rails, and glue dowels into these. Boom, now you've got alignment pins.
You could even just drill straight through the topper into the rails so you know the holes will line up. Then you'd just flush trim and sand. You could even leave them proud by about 1/4" and round them off and they'd just look like a little design feature.
@@CeeJayThe13th now I think about it, I’d probably just do thru holes up through the rails and match mark upwards through the holes. I would prefer to keep the surface not drilled
Very fun work, one recommendation that you may have thought of that I would make is on your leaves on the table top, maybe screw in some rubber feet at the corners so that it’s easier to slot perfectly over the game top and that way there’s no way that the Table top will slip when you’re having dinner, the last thing you want is for somebody to be eating and then they lean in the whole thing is pushed over onto the floor. The other thought I have is, while it looks like using the rails is working just fine, Maybe there’s some kind of a cup or dish or something else that you can get a bunch of, preferably plastic ones, and then screw in some kind of a post so that you can drop it along the rail and it will hold in place, and that way you can have a space to put your pieces where they won’t get knocked off of the rail if you aren’t paying attention.and you could probably do something similar with cupholders or whatever you wanted to do. But nice build, very fun.
its always easier to see how to use the materials after the DIY, but one idea, use the 20$ board you got as the topper instead, and the OG table top peice as the bottom. LOVE how it turned out!!
Love watching DIY board game table builds! 🪚 I've been getting more comfortable with woodworking and general DIY skills lately but I still feel like when the time comes I'd rather just splurge (nothing crazy, mind you!) on a top-tier quality table instead of trying to make one on my own... but we'll see! Love the finished product you all made! Thanks for sharing, guys! (Also, the old saying "measure twice, cut once" comes to mind as I watch this!) 🤣
That was great to watch!! Love how cheap it is!! I'm going to wait until v37 releases and buy from you guys for $200!! 😁 I want the adult sized table, though. So, $300.
1-As long as the people that spent all the money/time building it are happy with it, that is what matters. 2-This looks like a crazy amount of work and frustration for only some armrests and preventing dice from falling off the table. Why not just use a dice tray instead? What good ate the arm rests, so you can lean in when obsessed? 3-It might be a goid side for board games but I much prefer to play RPGs on a table 4 feet by 5(or 6)feet. That allows a 2by3 Matt in the center and then each side of the table still has a foot for the players books/tablet/character sheet. I find buying 2 rectangular folding tables work well for such. I would caution people to get them with the folding legs NOT at the absolute ends but instead at least &6 inches from the edge, then you can get your legs under the table if you are on those ends.
Nice! If you don't find a neoprene mat that's the right size or just don't want to use one, my daughter and I found success and fun with fabric instead. Simply wrap some batting (a fabric used for padding) followed by velour or felt (for a less luxurious but more affordable option alternative). Simply attach the fabric with spray on fabric glue, wrap around the edges, and staple from underneath. We used that method to make a topper instead and enjoyed it. Well... Until a night when I had drank a bit of umm... Water! Yeah, got to stay hydrated. Anyways, it didn't get put away properly and the cats tore it up like a scratching post. So, yeah. Make sure you make it inaccessible to animals. (Don't feel too sorry for us. We had fun building it together and my wife gave me a really nice neoprene mat as a gift for Christmas). Also, you could probably add cup holders with a hole saw and cup holder inserts. The inserts can be found online and stores that sell products for RVs, boats, and/or semis. If you already have a hole saw, that addition should only cost about $10-20 while preventing spills.
You'd want a miter saw to cut 45s on the arm rests. You'd want a plywood blade or other high tooth count saw for your circular saw. Also, only have 1/8" ticking through and using masking tape to prevent chipping of plywood. It's not the saws fault, it's the blade and blade depth. Instead of the metal brackets, should have just run the side through the table sides to cut the grooves for the game bottom portion. There are dual blades for tablesaws just for this, or could do a router (saw is quicker). You can get instructions online for tables, and then just modify those designs. IKEA quality is really hit or miss, and I found all their tables a bit small to do this with as I'd want 6' x 4' minimum.
I made a table like this last summer. The table I got is solid wood and I got it for free. It came out great. Cost me about €100 cause I used quality paint and laquer. Gaming mat was €12 and led strips were free. My table is bigger tho. Good video.
What is the ideal internal dimensions needed for "larger games" really? I play a lot of Marvel United with the (in my opinion) much needed 90cm diameter round playmat. ...so would a square (or rectangular) inner surface with at least 1m w + l do? I would love the big brother IKEA version created from you guys! :)
I think i'll try this too! Just thinking about leaving the gap between the armrests and the underconstruction to slide in some cup holders or stuff like that. Also i like the idea of led's as someone mentioned, 'cause everyone knows that led's make everything better :D
Don't know about your area, but here we can borrow most tools for free at the local library. (no table saw, unfortunately, but circular saw can do the job if you just measure more than once)
You know how some tables are like a bucket /a box on the underside? So, just flip the table over, and move the legs to where the table top would be, and BAM you have a board game table. Buy the same table again just for the top and BAM BAM you get a table topper too.
4 people, assuming 1 behind the camera, 1 cutting the boards, and 2 others but neither of them can catch the boards on the other side to stop them from falling?
They should have just screwed a piece of plywood to the BOTTOM of the frame to avoid loosing so much space in the box. That choice kind of negated the whole benefit of repurposing the table.
0:12 "We bought a table for 100 Dollar from IKEA, put in a little bit more money for materials"... WTF? That's Instant dislike for the dumbest fucking click bait I have seen in a while.
“$100 table from ikea and put in a little bit more money for materials” Yeah, depending on the material cost you might as well just put out more for the initial table. What do you think the material cost was besides the table? Because I feel like it could very easily match the $100 cost of the table alone.
I'm sure they're great and I'm sure you guys don't really choose a sponsor but just go to the highest bidder. God damn your sponsors tables are in the thousands you would have to be either rich or seriously bad with money to buy one.
May u should learn some woodworking skills and stuff before do such videos and teach ppl wrong/false unprofessional stuff which isnt good, I dont mean that offensive or anything else. I'm working in a carpentry and my heart and ears bleeding :D for example the use of the saws or the drill sometimes
Hyyyy! Im sorry to be a downer, but please, please sensor your swearing. *Especially* the F-bombs. - It ruins immersion in the video - You risk losing monitisation!!! - Can be fun or funny until you just keep doing it and it loses all entertainment value - You can actually add a layer of humour and fun to vids by being creative with how you do it 😉 - A lot of people are sensitive to the F-bomb (not necessarily other, less bad swears) so you're potentially upsetting lots of viewers and even losing some :-( - loss of monitisation risk! I said it twice because it's *that* important 😜😂 Anyway, other-than-that little upset, a funformative vidyo all-around! ❤ Looking-forward to 4.0 hehe
Love how Pranav is becoming a more regular in Shelfside. Love his energy!!!
The hardest part of DIY is finding a friend with all that tools :D
the measure once cut thrice energy is strong here 😂
I have zero motivation to do this myself, but this was really fun to watch.
some woodworking advice:
when using the circular saw, use blue painters tape over the cut to help prevent that tearout. you can also use a sacrificial piece of wood, but usually tape is easier.
to help make those galvanized plates on the bottom, you could use a router to make a slight inset for them to sit flush.
the metal corner brackets can be covered with an angled piece of wood. this makes it look a bit nicer, and prevents things from getting lost in the corner.
rounding over the edges of the top rails and topper will help the edges from feeling sharp, and will prevent catching fabric
planning a table out beforehand can help a lot. you can use a free version of SketchUp with very little experience to model a table. they have a 3d warehouse that has most Ikea components already modeled, so you can just add what you want to them. this helps with discovering problems like the legs being too tall and needing to get cut down, having a topper that isn't quite large enough, or buying the right thickness of wood.
Petitioning to have Pranav build a board gaming house in Shelfside’s next video 🔨🧱
Can he please
Oh god, don't do this to me
I happen to own this IKEA table model and this DIY is incredibly inspirational. Also quite impressive when you consider that board gaming tables are very expensive, and this one looks really amazing for just 200$. Adding cup trays and trays that could mount on some rails wouldn't add more than a 100$ to the overall cost. Great work, both table-wise and content wise.
thanks man! This video was so fun to make and I'm glad it is inspiring :D -Ashton
"There are solutions to this . . . I'm trying to think of them . . . " sums up every woodworking project I've ever done.
I know you didn't use the original ledge but painters tape at the cut line where you accidentally had to much would have fixed the chipping issue when cutting with the circular saw. Great Video I watched from beginning to end.
This channel is very quickly becoming one of my favourite board game content sources - you guys convinced me to buy Takenoko, great stuff keep it up ❤
awesome! Yeah Takenoko is a solid buy, still have it in my rotation :) -Asthon
@@Shelfside we havent played it yet, its with 2 other games on the shelf which we will endeavour to play when the time is right (for info: Splendor Duel and Terraforming Mars) - fuck, I'm at Stage 4 buy buy buy aren't I...
@@Endeva09 BUIY BUY BUY!
One of your best videos. DIY even gives me ideas about modding my current Ikea table which has 2 built in foldable leafs. Thank you.
Pranavs Protips™: "Don't drill directly into your legs."
Great little side adventure from you guys - loving seeing your buds included in the videos!
Really appreciate how you guys keep going back to the board game table project to improve it in different ways 👍
"I came, I saw, I messed up." Would have been so much better if he finished it, "So now I have to saw again."
Goto a Thrift store and find a Old Table made of good Woods, if your going to sand and stain it, thats normally why they are sold, because scratched up !
Okay hear me out: You drill blind holes into the side rails, match marking the tabletop. Drill short blind holes into the tabletop, slightly smaller than the holes in the side rails, and glue dowels into these. Boom, now you've got alignment pins.
You could even just drill straight through the topper into the rails so you know the holes will line up. Then you'd just flush trim and sand. You could even leave them proud by about 1/4" and round them off and they'd just look like a little design feature.
@@CeeJayThe13th now I think about it, I’d probably just do thru holes up through the rails and match mark upwards through the holes. I would prefer to keep the surface not drilled
Correction, war of the ring is the standard of fitting on a board game table 🙃
Very fun work, one recommendation that you may have thought of that I would make is on your leaves on the table top, maybe screw in some rubber feet at the corners so that it’s easier to slot perfectly over the game top and that way there’s no way that the Table top will slip when you’re having dinner, the last thing you want is for somebody to be eating and then they lean in the whole thing is pushed over onto the floor.
The other thought I have is, while it looks like using the rails is working just fine, Maybe there’s some kind of a cup or dish or something else that you can get a bunch of, preferably plastic ones, and then screw in some kind of a post so that you can drop it along the rail and it will hold in place, and that way you can have a space to put your pieces where they won’t get knocked off of the rail if you aren’t paying attention.and you could probably do something similar with cupholders or whatever you wanted to do.
But nice build, very fun.
Such a great video!!
thanks jimbo!
its always easier to see how to use the materials after the DIY, but one idea, use the 20$ board you got as the topper instead, and the OG table top peice as the bottom. LOVE how it turned out!!
Haha yep! cheers! -Ashton
Love watching DIY board game table builds! 🪚 I've been getting more comfortable with woodworking and general DIY skills lately but I still feel like when the time comes I'd rather just splurge (nothing crazy, mind you!) on a top-tier quality table instead of trying to make one on my own... but we'll see! Love the finished product you all made! Thanks for sharing, guys! (Also, the old saying "measure twice, cut once" comes to mind as I watch this!) 🤣
measure a couple of times, cut a couple of times, see what happens :D -Ashton
@@Shelfside 🤣🤣🤣
Awesome project, Brian seemed cool.
Will tell him!
Rabbit the mahogany and make the topper inset if you want it more waterproof-ish
That was great to watch!! Love how cheap it is!! I'm going to wait until v37 releases and buy from you guys for $200!! 😁 I want the adult sized table, though. So, $300.
Why didn’t you put some felt down in the arena area?
1-As long as the people that spent all the money/time building it are happy with it, that is what matters.
2-This looks like a crazy amount of work and frustration for only some armrests and preventing dice from falling off the table. Why not just use a dice tray instead? What good ate the arm rests, so you can lean in when obsessed?
3-It might be a goid side for board games but I much prefer to play RPGs on a table 4 feet by 5(or 6)feet. That allows a 2by3 Matt in the center and then each side of the table still has a foot for the players books/tablet/character sheet. I find buying 2 rectangular folding tables work well for such. I would caution people to get them with the folding legs NOT at the absolute ends but instead at least &6 inches from the edge, then you can get your legs under the table if you are on those ends.
Nice!
If you don't find a neoprene mat that's the right size or just don't want to use one, my daughter and I found success and fun with fabric instead. Simply wrap some batting (a fabric used for padding) followed by velour or felt (for a less luxurious but more affordable option alternative). Simply attach the fabric with spray on fabric glue, wrap around the edges, and staple from underneath.
We used that method to make a topper instead and enjoyed it. Well... Until a night when I had drank a bit of umm... Water! Yeah, got to stay hydrated. Anyways, it didn't get put away properly and the cats tore it up like a scratching post. So, yeah. Make sure you make it inaccessible to animals. (Don't feel too sorry for us. We had fun building it together and my wife gave me a really nice neoprene mat as a gift for Christmas).
Also, you could probably add cup holders with a hole saw and cup holder inserts. The inserts can be found online and stores that sell products for RVs, boats, and/or semis. If you already have a hole saw, that addition should only cost about $10-20 while preventing spills.
awesome, will let pranav know :) -Ashton
Thanks for the post--it is a shame the captions cannot be turned off.
aah, I just put some of those captions in because for some devices it might be hard to hear. Cheers! -Ashton
You'd want a miter saw to cut 45s on the arm rests.
You'd want a plywood blade or other high tooth count saw for your circular saw. Also, only have 1/8" ticking through and using masking tape to prevent chipping of plywood. It's not the saws fault, it's the blade and blade depth.
Instead of the metal brackets, should have just run the side through the table sides to cut the grooves for the game bottom portion. There are dual blades for tablesaws just for this, or could do a router (saw is quicker).
You can get instructions online for tables, and then just modify those designs. IKEA quality is really hit or miss, and I found all their tables a bit small to do this with as I'd want 6' x 4' minimum.
I made a table like this last summer. The table I got is solid wood and I got it for free.
It came out great. Cost me about €100 cause I used quality paint and laquer. Gaming mat was €12 and led strips were free.
My table is bigger tho.
Good video.
pretty good table
Would definitely get a mat felt to complete it.
Used tables are the best value for projects
What is the ideal internal dimensions needed for "larger games" really?
I play a lot of Marvel United with the (in my opinion) much needed 90cm diameter round playmat.
...so would a square (or rectangular) inner surface with at least 1m w + l do?
I would love the big brother IKEA version created from you guys! :)
You can buy cup holders that clamp to a normal table
"A game table for $100!" Then procedes to spend 100 on the table "a little bit more money for materials"
Haha love that table. Ive made a couple of these game tables now
I think i'll try this too! Just thinking about leaving the gap between the armrests and the underconstruction to slide in some cup holders or stuff like that. Also i like the idea of led's as someone mentioned, 'cause everyone knows that led's make everything better :D
I so wish I had the tools available (as well as the working space), I'd immediately do the same project (just a bit bigger)! Well done guys!
sweet, yeah this one was super fun, we'll see what Pranav's next project is :D -Ashton
Don't know about your area, but here we can borrow most tools for free at the local library. (no table saw, unfortunately, but circular saw can do the job if you just measure more than once)
Measure a few times, cut a few times 😂
You know how some tables are like a bucket /a box on the underside? So, just flip the table over, and move the legs to where the table top would be, and BAM you have a board game table. Buy the same table again just for the top and BAM BAM you get a table topper too.
Hey great job guys that looks great! I need to do that soon.
use metre less issues.
What game were you guys playing the second time?
Hellapagos! It’s a party game
@@ashtonwu7760 Ty :)
2:35 Side pieces DO have a tendency to be problems.
Dope!!
Inflation is crazy that table was 50 bucks when I bought it like 4 years ago
Please change your smoke alarm's battery 0:48
man, great eyes -Ashton
4 people, assuming 1 behind the camera, 1 cutting the boards, and 2 others but neither of them can catch the boards on the other side to stop them from falling?
why in hell did you leave a hole in the middle instead of running the strips the whole length?
yall really have no idea what you're doing. that part is entertaining
Ok I'm in love
Fail until you make it. Nice table!
They should have just screwed a piece of plywood to the BOTTOM of the frame to avoid loosing so much space in the box. That choice kind of negated the whole benefit of repurposing the table.
0:12 "We bought a table for 100 Dollar from IKEA, put in a little bit more money for materials"... WTF? That's Instant dislike for the dumbest fucking click bait I have seen in a while.
Yeah, pretty fucking clickbaity title that just outright lies.
A lot more than a 100$ :/
“$100 table from ikea and put in a little bit more money for materials”
Yeah, depending on the material cost you might as well just put out more for the initial table. What do you think the material cost was besides the table? Because I feel like it could very easily match the $100 cost of the table alone.
I'm sure they're great and I'm sure you guys don't really choose a sponsor but just go to the highest bidder. God damn your sponsors tables are in the thousands you would have to be either rich or seriously bad with money to buy one.
And the cost of the tools used... :D
ha. ha ha ha. sshhh -Ashton
So you turned $100 + another $100 or so into a board game table ...
Teach me
I love whaching poeple creat thing some times I wish I could just absorb their knollage
17:30
That’s some janky work lol
When you charge for the labor of multiple people, probably a cost in the thousands lol
But if you are modding it wht not making it from scratch?!
wow at least you admit the title is click bait within the first 20 seconds
haha, well it's very close to $100 -Ashton
Not $100. First time this channel popped into my recommendations but unfortunately if clickbait is their style, I can't subscribe.
Catan 😂🤡
May u should learn some woodworking skills and stuff before do such videos and teach ppl wrong/false unprofessional stuff which isnt good, I dont mean that offensive or anything else. I'm working in a carpentry and my heart and ears bleeding :D for example the use of the saws or the drill sometimes
Cheaper to just buy wood and screws.. . this is painful to watch haha
“How we turned $100 into a gaming table” “we bought a $100 table plus more money for materials” so the answer is you didn’t. Clickbait 👎
Hyyyy! Im sorry to be a downer, but please, please sensor your swearing. *Especially* the F-bombs.
- It ruins immersion in the video
- You risk losing monitisation!!!
- Can be fun or funny until you just keep doing it and it loses all entertainment value
- You can actually add a layer of humour and fun to vids by being creative with how you do it 😉
- A lot of people are sensitive to the F-bomb (not necessarily other, less bad swears) so you're potentially upsetting lots of viewers and even losing some :-(
- loss of monitisation risk! I said it twice because it's *that* important 😜😂
Anyway, other-than-that little upset, a funformative vidyo all-around! ❤ Looking-forward to 4.0 hehe