Affordable Board Game Table Hitting Backers Soon – Project Ironwood Update

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The words affordable and board game table are likely things you never expected to be in the same sentence. Even if you wanted one of the impressive Game Toppers for your standard table, you were still going to spend over 1000 dollars for a 3×5 table. Most tables today are in the range of 2000-3000 dollars, and that’s before you pay to ship a product weighing hundreds of pounds.

Enter Project Ironwood, a project we have written about many times before, which is now in the process of shipping tables to backers around the world for Wave 0. What are you getting? Let’s talk about it.

Obviously a table that retails for only a few hundred dollars is not going to be solid wood, is not going to weigh hundreds of pounds, and is fairly likely going to be criticized. How good can an inexpensive – I refuse to use the word cheap here – table really be?

The development team behind Project Ironwood have created a lightweight steel table that quickly assembles and disassembles (yes you can take it places)! The lightweight steel is coated in a variety of colours of your choosing, and goes together with a few bolts. The table assembly is a mixture of rods and toppers that are put in place, with a sized neoprene mat laid on top to create a smooth gaming service.

The game table boasts many of the same features you’ll find in a table cost 5-8x more, including additional options for cup holders, card holders, bag holders, bits holders, and more. The company also is offering a topper for the table so you can use it to store a game while either playing something else, or perhaps having something quick to eat before getting back to what is underneath.

The toppers also come with legs that can screw into the bottoms to make small side tables for