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How Wyrmwood's Fantastic Modular Gaming Table is Made

Thoughtful design for production, incredible automated woodworking machines

By Rain Noe - March 1, 2023

in Furniture Design | Manufacturing

I was mightily impressed with the amount of design thought that went into Wyrmwood's Modular Gaming Table. The dining table can be easily transformed into a tabletop gaming center or crafting workstation, with a seemingly endless variety of useful accessories that slide into magnetic slots.

I was also in awe of their massive Kickstarter haul for the project (close to $2 million at press time) and their claim that they could produce 100 of the seemingly complicated tables each week. And with the release of this video below, I now see how the latter is possible.

Wyrmwood has two production facilities—one for fabrication, the other for assembly—manned by craftspeople using incredible automated woodworking machines. And while the machines themselves are blindingly cool, what really shines through is that the MGT, as well as all of the processes at the factory, were very carefully designed for production. It's not often that I can sit through a 17-minute video and be impressed by segment after segment, from wood sorting right down to the final packaging:

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Jacob Laha

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It feels like Wyrmwood has their PR department pushing out stories to try to try to bury the news about their poor handling of sexual assault allegations.

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Ben Greenfield

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It almost worked I had never hear of them.

Just to keep this from being unsubstantiated hearsay here is the news article I found.
https://www.ign.com/articles/wyrmwood-a-high-end-tabletop-gaming-manufacturer-abuse-scandal

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Team Fett

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Their product is overpriced. They are still filling orders from wave 1 three years ago. They randomly fire employees without notice. And they also fire people who comment about sexual harassment. They are trying to do damage control at this point.

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Chris Knowles

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Pity that dozens of clever designs couldn't get me to comment for years, but just minutes of not acknowledging the elephant in the room got me to sign up.

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