DIY Gaming computer table

Written by Stuyo

Thursday, 03 April 2008

 

For a complete gaming satisfaction, it's mandatory to have good machine, good monitor and quality controllers, but no less important is to have a comfy table to put them all on. Our market is flooded with computer tables, but most look as if there were made from people that have never seen a computer in their life. Another part of the designers had definitely seen a computer, sadly it must have been a portable one. So in reality choosing comfortable table with the clear intention to use it mostly for gaming was a tough job. And so, yet another time forced by the circumstances, i jumped the challenge, took things in my own hands and start building something that would comply with my high demands.

What i needed an what i put as basic for the table was this:

• There must be place for a big display;
• There must be place for all input/output devices i use;
• There must be a place for additional game keyboard and mouse;
• There must be additional shelves for disks, controllers and so on;
• The movable keyboard shelf must be stable enough to support a steering wheel;
• The table must be stable and at the same time compact.

After a long search through the Internet i found nothing suitable. So i gathered the best assets from different tables and made this project:

Later the design was altered in order to optimize the use of materials and improve stability, but how exactly you'll find out from the pictures below.

The next thing i had to determine were the dimensions of the table. Compared to the old table and the chair I'm using i got these measurements:

Overall size: 1000 mm long, 700mm wide and 750mm high
Top board sizes are: 1000mm long and 350mm wide
The movable keyboard board is at 630mm from the ground, 550 mm wide
Side boards are 30mm under the one of the keyboard.

More or less these are the basic table dimensions, enough for you to get the idea.

The biggest part of the job was done by my father, and for that I'm truly grateful, though that means that no photos are available for that part. But then again this guide is not focused on how to work with wood and the variety of jointing used, but instead it's focused on giving you the idea how to come up with your own design (as well as make it true) of your own gaming table.

The table arrived in these packages – not very heavy pieces:

Assembly instructions and my little helper:

This are the legs and respectively the shelf on which I intend to keep the steering wheel and various other things, like disks for example:

Now to mount the side boards, the ones for gaming keyboard and mouse respectively, as well as the railing for the movable keyboard board:

Mounting the top board we take few steps back to see what we've (and test how it interacts with us). By the look of it the helper likes it:

And finally – to put the computer on the table. Well not exactly the computer, but let's see how it looks after all. The gaming chair fits quite good with this table, you should expect in few days update on how it works with steering wheel in place :)

I don't know if this short guide was useful for you, but i hope it was interesting enough so to inspire you and I sure hope we'll see more gaming furniture here!

And again i want to thank my father, who did the hard work and left only the assembly to me :)

Author: Stoyan Pamukchiev a.k.a Stuyo

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