Building a Ping-Pong Table – Playing Surface Material and Table Paint?
Building a Ping-Pong Table – Playing Surface Material and Table Paint?Hi Greg, I am thinking about making a table tennis surface and I’m looking to replicate the high end tops. Do you know what wood material is used (High Density Fiber Board) or ?. I realize 1″ thickness is preferred but is .75″ OK? How about the paint on the top? Does this have certain characteristics concerning “grip” or the measure for smoothness v. roughness and do you know where this paint can be purchased? Same question for the lines. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks TimAnswer: Hi Tim, As far as I have been able to discover, just about all the modern table tennis tables use fiberboard – I would expect that it is High Density Fiberboard in almost all cases. In my table tennis forum, it was mentioned that MDF (medium density fiberboard) might be a useful alternative if you are looking to build your own ping-
