Until your wife gets tired of them. Now I have two beautiful well kept GeekChic tables for sale and have a fancy natural wood dining room table with two halves and glass between them. Very pretty but no gaming capability beyond a large mostly flat surface.
i was going to say the same thing.. esp those $40 tables. I was actually going to buy one this weekend to put in my living room for when friends come over to cowork
It depends how well you treat it. Someone fidgety putting their feet on a €5 Lack table is enough to ruin it, as the connection between the legs and the tabletop is just double-ended screws.
But isn’t it even more of a corner case then, basically certain games? Or the ikea “how does that sofa fits in the room” example (which I might use once every 5 years...).
not for you... sell it. E1M1 Table for sale: $20,000. There are people out there that aren't woodworkers with lots of money for nostalgic stuff like this. Seal the top with glass (or clear acrylic) so you can see into the level. Oh man oh man.
Agreed. Those little Lack tables are sturdy enough that they're often used as a cheap rack mounts by guitarists. Iirc they're almost perfectly a 1U width and depth, for anyone looking into a home lab. Add a couple of corner brackets and a layer of sealer and they'll take an outrageous beating.
That said, a benefit to the lack(heh) of quality is how light everything is. I do a lot of projects that require using my entire living space. If it wasn't so easy to just shove the furniture out of the way, I'd have that much more inertia between me and doing what I want.
For your next lot of tables, you might want to consider rounding the table tops slightly too. That way they don't dig into your wrists quite so much - plus they'll match the legs.
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