Comments on: The Amazing Fletcher Capstan Table

By: jackbegone43

jackbegone43 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:39:12 +0000

Great Table!,,, I work for Century Furniture Co. who makes High End Furniture and we have a similar table originally invented by Robert Jupe in the 1800s. But our table doesn’t work as nice as this one and you have to store the fillers somewhere. I would love to pick this one apart and study..

Regards

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:32:55 +0000

wow, that’s a nice table
I would wonder how stable the outer edge is when extended though.

By: TheDane

TheDane — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:36:11 +0000

25K for a table… I don’t care how neat it is, I would never get one… Unless it was autofilling with cold beer and good food…

That is just insane…

Kim:)

By: RHB

RHB — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:15:58 +0000

maybe they’re cheaper this week since the world markets are “readjusting”. Now if we could make these in Asia for half the price…

By: Tom Barr

Tom Barr — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:30:08 +0000

It’s nice to see that Mechanical Engineering still exists. In my first career I used my BSME and even worked in the contract office furniture industry but that was in the last millennium. Now I work on the web where things are easier to do but less impressive.

By: Rhoody

Rhoody — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:11:37 +0000

I saw those kind of tables (not that beautyful, more modern-plastic kind of thing) in a Art furniture-store in germany around 10 years ago. The price was a bit lower, but still way out of my range… This one looks just great, but for 25K I guess I would buy other stuff…

cheers

Rhoody

By: petheridge

petheridge — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:17:23 +0000

I’ve seen one of these a few years ago in a high end furniture store in New Orleans. I was impressed then. I’m still impressed.

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:03:54 +0000

Nice piece of art, no wonder its worth $25 Grand :shock:

By: Derek Wong

Derek Wong — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:16:08 +0000

That is an awesome looking table! I’m sure that’s quite an engineering feat once one really looked at how they did it. In any case, it’s much more convenient than a table leaf! (But probably not worth that much money to me.)

By: RHB

RHB — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:36:37 +0000

I can almost gaurantee this guy used to make wooden puzzles. Having worked in the contract furniture bussiness, the concept is elementary, the execution with accompanying mechanical engineering is genius. Everything must not only work, it must have the fit and finish to satisfy the critical eye of a customer willing to drop 20k on a conversation piece.