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Coffee table that folds out to a game table. (imgur.com)
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Other than some shelves that I made for my office. This is the first piece of furniture I've ever made. Lots and lots of mistakes and do-overs. Still, I think it turned out pretty good.

Coffee table. 2 36"x36" sheets of birch ply, with 1/8" Poplar hobby boards glued/nailed to it in the design. The ply was stained with homemade Iron Acetate stain. Then epoxy was poured onto the recessed parts and in all the cracks. Then the whole thing was sanded again and covered in many coats of Lacquer... lost count.

The table uses a mechanism ordered from AliExpress that folds out to a table. It pops up, and to the left, then the top of the coffee table is rotated over the other "legs" of the mechanism, and it becomes this table. Just high enough to comfortably game from the sofa. (The plywood surface was stained with Minwax Golden Oak and coated in about ten coats of lacquer.)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried to do something similar, but with touchscreen TV that tilts up (on gas pistons) for arcade mode. My table-top just drops over top to hide it though, so I'm looking your style more (plus the top looks much nicer when folded).

Do you happen to have a video showing how it folds and/or a link to the mechanism? I might end up scrapping mine if yours works better (mines kinda jerry-rigged)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that! Looks like it's OOS - or maybe just not available to my area - but there are similar models from other vendors. Not sure it'll work for my TV table but one of the variations might do it