Game Room Bar- A Possible DYI?

[loman4ec]

When I was in college I had made plans to build a bar in our apartment. Our place was always full of people and we had a lot of poker tournaments. I got this idea from a local bar in Daytona. The bar top was the cool part about it. What I was going to do was surround the edges of the bar top with wood trim that was raised up about 1/2 inch. Then fill the top with bottle caps throughout the whole top then pour liquid acrylic in the top up to the top of the outer trim. Then you use a heat gun on the acrylic which brings the bubbles out of it. Once it dries it leaves a clean hard as rock plastic top with bottle caps inside it. The local bar we went to used marbles or something like that instead. I did a lot of research and it would be very easy to do and not too expensive. Actually it would probably be cheaper than a nice counter top.I always thought this would look cool on top of a victor cooler. I never got around to it as me and my room mate had a falling out over a girl and I ended up moving. It doesn't seem like that was almost 10 years ago

[SIGNGUY]

They sell that stuff at menards.. it's about 50 bucks for a gallon but suppose to work really well, I'm going to try it on a bar top this summer as well with the same idea...

[Kilroy]

I've seen it done on Man Caves, it looks trick, Josh is right, you have to work on getting the bubbles out, but after it's done, it's darn cool

[rayg]

That sound like a cool counter, maybe add a bottle opener, a folder $5 bill,  silver dollar  business card etc...  It  something that you can really customized.  

I guess my basement is my man cave, I told my wife the basement is mine  the rest of the house it her's.... she thinks everything is hers......LOL

 I think I like "Bar Stuff"  because I grew up in Hamtramck,MI ...(the small town with a Bar at every corner ...  literary. ..most were converted houses)  I have fond memories of my dad dragging me around to all the bars he liked to patronize,  giving me quarters for all the machines to keep me occupied: the pinball machines, bowling machines,  jukeboxes, soda machine ...etc I think that's where I got the bug for almost anything coin operated

[Kilroy]

Do you remember Atlas soda? I t seemed to be the drink of choice ( well  non alcoholic)

[rayg]

Yes, I do remember Atlas Soda,  my friend worked there in high school and I would got there to get free pop... my favorite was their cream soda  It was located almost across from Old Mill bar on the corner of  Conant and Carpenter.

[Pat Pixley]

The Top of my bar I have a piece of thick glass 1/4 thick  We have picture's under it and we change them out for the holidays it's great

[rayg]

That's a thick piece of glass,  Does have a green edge on it? If it does I think that means it tempered glass.

[kstt]

I made mine up on the fly. Easy to do, and it wasn't anywhere near $2K. The Formica is "boomerang". You could substitute red "leather" or some other laminate where the oak is, if you don't like the wood look.

[rayg]

Killer room, you got allot of cool stuff going on... especially  like the EX-LAX thermometer.  But what I really like is the vintage phone booth.... looks like a 1950's era wooden Western Electric I sure with working fan & light...,I have a fondness for them.. maybe because I work for Ma Bell LOL . What's that on the counter on the far left? It looks like in may be a juke wall-box? You may already have but all see missing is a pinball machine.   

 Thanks for sharing,  it gave me some ideas to expand $$$ on  want I was going to do

Ray