Comin round the mountain charming Betsy

Big news! We got bar stools! All seven of em to boot!  Expect a stool post and a felt post in the next day or so too.

Nothing much to report, first coat of finish is on the betting track, pics will show you some imperfections in the finish that we will fix with a second coat.  Redid the wrist rest with a solid piece of foam instead of pieces of foam and it turned out fantastic.  Pics will show a much more even stracth to the vinyl and a much more finished look - this time I didn't cut the vinyl too deep!  Yay me.

Chip case w00t!

The stools

That's not the same KFC bucket in the fridge that was in there two weeks ago.  OK I lied, it is the same KFC bucket from two weeks ago.  Someone needs to clean out the fridge.

Shot from the comic room

the rest of the room

This time with feeling!  

Even the back staples look better this time

Betting track with finish, view full size to see defects

After the first coat of paint

Look what you made me do

It's shiney even if a bit flawed

More stuff to fix, but it still looks great!

 No Amazon this post, unless I come in and do it later.  Pressed for time and gotta jet!

When I grow up I wanna own a casino.

Yeah, been busy,  don't know about you guys but in my part of town it's the holidays and well they just have a way of distracting you from the important things in life, like build your own black jack table projects.

Don't worry though, we made some progress all the same and I have some pics to prove it.  As you can see the pedestal and base are married (Vegas style baby!  Stay togethor as long as it's fun, but when it's time to go, two bolts and BANG! it's over, except for arguing over who gets the chips on the weekends.)

In other momentous news, got 7 bar stools on the way!  Several of which are gifts, so sincere thanks Mom and Grandma!  The barstools rock, so expect pics of them when they arrive around the 19th of January, which seems like forever from now.  I guess since each seat is wrapped in the rich Corinthian leather it must take a while to even find a '75 Chrysler Cordoba in the first place, not only do the have to find the cars, but then they have to use local trappers to keep the wild clones of the late Ricardo Montalbon away long enough to get the seats out.  I've heard tell that the feral clones will shed their Mr. Roark costumes and mate with the car, unless they are dressed as Kahn in which case they stick a bug in the glove compartment and collect a paycheck and go home.

Pics or it didn't happen you say?  Pish posh.  Pics it is then.

Here is the the assembled piece.  Tops almost ready to go on!

STFU! All the high-class folks keep KFC buckets in the beverage coolers.

The betting track is coming together.

Velvet Elvis watches over us as we play.

It's big!  The dog by the way is Rupert the Wonder Dog.  The cat  above is Stanley Badkat - he was missing for TWO months and then showed back up for Christmas Eve!  How awsome was that?  Longest caption ever, ya but it's sweet.

So after writing the caption about my pets, it made me realize how much of a zoo I really have.  1 dog, 8 Year old chow mix, Rupert the Wonder Dog.  1 cat, 5 year old domestic short hair, Stanley Badkat.  1 Kitten, 9 month old piss and vinegar, Snat!  1 Cockatiel, old, named Fritz and two 8 year (Still baby's) old Double Yellow Head Parrots.  Good times.  Will do a pet thread soon - so there.  But for now, how about links to things my pets want?

Coming into the home stretch...

Got a lot done the last couple of nights, David and I have been busy squeezing in a Monday evening this week to boot!  We got so much done just gonna rattle it all off in list form.

• The top anchor system in place consisting of 4 carriage bolts counter sunk into the play surface with wing nuts.  This way the top is removable and modular!
• The top play surface cut outs have been made for the chip tray, bill collector, and no peek device.
• The Volara closed cell foam is installed and cut.
• Bill box and bill slot are installed
• The betting track / racetrack has had it's second coat of paint and will be getting it's first layer of polyurethane soon.

So really there isn't a whole lot left for the table at this point.  Still need to do the following;

• Install felt play surface and secure discard box, bill collection gasket, no peek device and toke box
• Install shelf in pedestal
• Install lighted blackjack sign, table lighting and powerstrip
• Finish betting track ornamentation and super gloss epoxy coating
• Secure arm rest to betting track.
• Order rules signage and display bracket
• Design and install back trim (maybe - this is kind of optional)
• Source over table lighting and install
• Buy barstools!  Getting a couple of stools for Christmas, but that leaves me needing 5 more - so cut me some slack and buy some stuff already!

And now for the pictures!

Oooh Shiney!  It started off red, but then I had to paint it black.

Bill box and chip tray

From the front

You can make the picture big to see my recently rescued and restored vintage velvet Elvis.  

Any ladies out there attracted to 40 year old guys who collect comic book toys?  Email me, we'll hook up..

Because one picture of a black piece of wood is never enough. 

I'm not satisfied with only two pictures of a black piece of wood, so here is a third.   Am i satisfied yet?  No... I can't get no satisfaction.  Because one Rolling Stones joke is never enough.

Tonights Amazon sales pitch - Things I would like to get on Christmas morning.