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I added a drawer to my poker table like many others here, and figured I'd share what I did for reference as when I was looking into it all the pictures and discussion here helped me figure out what I wanted to do. I kind of did this as a temporary proof of concept, as I'm building a new table soon and will end up doing a better job permanently mounting it to that table instead of this old secondhand one.
I used this video (thanks @Lancew09!), as well as many other posts here (including this one), for inspiration. I ended up buying 2 drawers and returning one. The first drawer I mounted was closer to what most people have used here (deeper, squared edges), and the other shallower drawer is the same one he uses in this video. Ultimately I kept the one he uses in this video. I liked it more because it was shallower for sitting underneath it, and the front edge being angled makes it look a lot cleaner mounted under the table and it's less likely to snag you by accident.
I had to do something odd with mine in order to get it to mount, as I had a metal bar on a previously made table to work around. I mounted wooden bars to offset the actual drawer off the table itself. I used t-nuts like he did in the video which is nice for taking the drawer off and folding the table down.
In the deeper original drawer I mounted, regular chip racks will work. See the pictures I attached showing how many fit.
Inside the shallower drawer that I ended up with, regular chip racks are too deep. He uses Apache racks, which I tried out but didn't like that as much. I cut down a 10 row plastic chip tray to use and it works out great as it sits really low and allows easy access to a lot of chips in the front of the drawer. I also had to cut out a section for the lock. After cutting down, it fits 10 rows perfect side to side, and fits much more cleanly in the drawer than multiple chip trays. I also added a piece of wood underneath the back of the tray to raise it level. 39mm chips just *barely* fit in the drawer like this, it's perfect.
Hope that's helpful to anyone looking to do this same thing, happy to answer any questions if you have them!
I used this video (thanks @Lancew09!), as well as many other posts here (including this one), for inspiration. I ended up buying 2 drawers and returning one. The first drawer I mounted was closer to what most people have used here (deeper, squared edges), and the other shallower drawer is the same one he uses in this video. Ultimately I kept the one he uses in this video. I liked it more because it was shallower for sitting underneath it, and the front edge being angled makes it look a lot cleaner mounted under the table and it's less likely to snag you by accident.
I had to do something odd with mine in order to get it to mount, as I had a metal bar on a previously made table to work around. I mounted wooden bars to offset the actual drawer off the table itself. I used t-nuts like he did in the video which is nice for taking the drawer off and folding the table down.
In the deeper original drawer I mounted, regular chip racks will work. See the pictures I attached showing how many fit.
Inside the shallower drawer that I ended up with, regular chip racks are too deep. He uses Apache racks, which I tried out but didn't like that as much. I cut down a 10 row plastic chip tray to use and it works out great as it sits really low and allows easy access to a lot of chips in the front of the drawer. I also had to cut out a section for the lock. After cutting down, it fits 10 rows perfect side to side, and fits much more cleanly in the drawer than multiple chip trays. I also added a piece of wood underneath the back of the tray to raise it level. 39mm chips just *barely* fit in the drawer like this, it's perfect.
Hope that's helpful to anyone looking to do this same thing, happy to answer any questions if you have them!
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