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Late last year
My Beloved Wolfy and I made a rather expensive (for us) Impulse buy, and on a Kickstarter no less. We bought ourselves a new dining room table. Most people right now are thinking
so? That's gaming related how? Well. It was a
Jasper, meaning its not only a dining room table, but a game table as well!
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WIP: this is as far as I got Friday evening before calling it a night. |
Unlike most kickstarters that I've backed, this one only ran about a month late on the estimated delivery time. Part of that delay was due to feedback on a short run of prototype tables, several of which were damaged in shipping. Resulting in a redesign of their packaging. Yeah, I'm okay with that sort of delay. From what I understand, as soon as the project was funded (in approx. 9 minutes!), mass production started!
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3.5' x 5.5' of no dice rolling off of this table's surface gaming space! |
The tables' manufacturer is a
small custom game table manufacturer in Jasper Missouri. Previously, they built the
Duchess game table which I would have liked to have gotten, but couldn't afford at the time. Their other tables are laughably out of our reach, but we splurged on the Jasper.
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You'd never know this was game table if we didn't tell you. |
Aside from a few inquiries from Wolfy along the lines of where the fuck is MY table?!?, the wait for this KS was mercifully short. It took a week or so to find a home for our old dining room table (Florida, though we're only trucking it as far as Knoxville). We disassembled that, and I lugged its dreadfully heavy parts into other rooms for temporary storage. Thus, with our dining room cleared, I started assembly Friday night.
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Removable cup holder optional location #1: on each corner of the short table edges. |
The instructions were nigh on fool-proof...ha! I bested that theory in no time at all! Mistake #1: 'No honey I don't need any help, I can do it myself.' Followed immediately thereafter by mistake #2: trying (in futility) to get the incorrect bolts into what I thought were their allotted holes. 20 wasted minutes later....and I realized my mistake and it was fairly smooth sailing from there.
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Removable cup holder optional location #2: the middle of the long table edges. Regardless they don't ever need to be on the gaming surface! |