Here's the deal guys - I am in the process of building my poker table and I am incorporating deep well recesses to hold beverage cups and beer/soda cans in the hopes of preventing any accidental spills.
I happened to get very lucky at work and worked with a material that came in rolls and at the ends of the rolls were these plastic inserts to keep the rolls still in their packages. They just so happened to just the right inside diameter size to hold a regulation sized beer/soda can. The only problem is that they don't have bottoms to them. I thought that I could epoxy a plastic or plexiglass disc in the bottom and that would be that. And I still think that that is absolutely possible.
I checked at the local HD tonight and they only had clear plexiglass and I am hoping to find black to match the plastic wells. My biggest concern is cutting the discs out of a sheet of material. What is my best option as far as cutting? I am thinking the bandsaw, but I am concerned about possibly cracking the material. Is this a concern? Also, what about any heat that is generated by the cutting operation - would this adversely effect the outcome? I plan on cutting the discs a smidge large and then sanding them down to proper size on a sanding wheel.
Any thoughts?
I have attached two pics to help in understanding what I am doing. The first pic is of the plastic well sitting in a recess that will have another top lamination of solid oak on top. The second pic is a side view of one of the eight segments that will comprise the perimeter of the poker playing surface. You can see the well hanging below the segment. The "lip" on the inner edge of the bottom lamination is what the actual felt covered playing surface is going to sit on and be screwed down to when put together.
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