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Introduction: Customize Your Home Poker Poker Table

1. The second method will allow you to make detailed multi colored graphics, but may need to be touched up if your poker table gets a lot of use. Stencil and Dye An easy way to add a graphic to your felt is to make a stencil of whatever you want on the table and mist dye over the area.
2. Apply carpenter's glue to the top of the table and install the 1' foam. Take a break while the glue sets so the felt won't move. Center and attach the bottom of the rail to the top of the rail as in Rail Diagram A, again using carpenter's glue and one-inch drywall screws. Put to one side for upholstery later.
3. While pool tables with major structural problems probably aren't good candidates for rehabilitation, you can restore a table with a few aesthetic imperfections by installing a new sheet of pool table felt. Repair beer stains, ripped felt, a wobbly leg and gouged wood and you'll feel like you have a brand new table.
4. How to choose a poker table playing surface. Players sitting at the rounded ends of the larger oval tables will appreciate this for sure. Perhaps the best feature suited speed cloth offers is the water resistant properties. Any spilled drinks on this material will provide you added time to clean it up before it begins to do damage to your table.

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This Instructable covers the process making a custom graphic for your home poker table.
I made this one for my friends poker table.
I made it at TechShop. It is a really cool place, check it out: www.techshop.ws

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Step 1: Creating the Vector File

In order to cut out a stencil on the laser cutter, you need a vector file. I used Adobe Illustrator.
Prepare the file like you do anything else for the laser cutter:
Choose whatever font you want, outline only with no fill and with stroke set to 0.001 for vector cutting.
Depending on what letters you use, you may need to modify your file to create tabs so the interior cavities of the letters remain in the correct position and don't fall out after cutting, the 'b' shown in this photo is an example of what I am talking about.

Step 2: Choose Your Stencil Material and Cut to Size.

I chose to make the stencil out of cardboard because it was cheap and available. It worked but you may want to use a heavier poster board or something else instead.
The cardboard worked but I think something else would have probably worked a little bit better.. Whatever you choose, just make sure it is safe to use on the laser and can handle a couple coats of spray paint without absorbing too much and letting the paint bleed through.
Cut the material to fit the bed of the laser cutter you are using.

Step 3: Cut the Stencil

Choose the appropriate vector cutting settings for your material of choice and run the file on the laser cutter, in a few minutes your stencil will be ready to go!

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Step 4: Position the Stencil

Set the position of your stencil on the playing surface of your poker table as desired. And secure with a lot of blue painters tape.
Do your best to make sure that the bottom surface of the stencil is flush with the playing surface. I also used some thumb tacks in select areas to secure some tricky corners of the cardboard stencil that weren't flush with the playing surface.

Step 5: Cover Everything Else With Newspaper

Cover the poker table with newspaper everywhere except where the lettering will appear after spray painting.

Step 6: Paint!

With everything but the stencil covered in newspaper, spray paint over the stencil onto the surface one coat at a time as directed on the spray can.
I used a spray paint designed to work on fabric, here is a link on amazon
You may see a little bit of paint go through to make unwanted faint marks on the playing surface around the edge of the stencil like those shown in the photo. A damp cloth did a pretty good job of removing these with a bit of effort, I wouldn't count on it but it worked for me.
A big thanks for club xanadu for letting me alter the poker table!

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