The Complete Guide to Plank & Hide Co. Shuffleboard Tables
Most premium shuffleboard brands give you two or three cabinet designs and expect the playfield specification to close the sale. Plank & Hide inverts that. Seven distinct designs — Art Deco, architectural modernism, distressed rustic, and points between — built to be chosen by eye rather than by spec sheet. That makes this brand the right answer for a specific and increasingly common buyer: someone whose table will live in a visible room, get looked at daily, and need to hold its own against the furniture around it. This guide covers the design range, the construction, the delivery problem Plank & Hide solved better than anyone, and where the brand's priorities cost you something. Compare it against everything we stock in our complete shuffleboard table collection.
Design as the Organizing Principle
Plank & Hide Co. positions itself around luxury-quality design at accessible prices, and the seven-model range is the evidence. For comparison within our own lineup: Brunswick offers two shuffleboards, Berner four. Champion offers twelve, but those are variations on a consistent tournament-table idiom. Plank & Hide's seven are genuinely different pieces of furniture that happen to be shuffleboards.
That matters more than it sounds. A shuffleboard is between nine and fourteen feet of visual mass in a room. It's the largest object most people will ever put in a basement or a great room. Getting the design wrong isn't a minor aesthetic disappointment — it's a very expensive piece of furniture you end up resenting. Having seven real options rather than two increases the odds that one of them is right for your space.
Plank & Hide also builds coordinated pool tables in several of the same design families, including the Fulton and Beaumont. If you're furnishing a complete game room, that's a genuine advantage. Matching finishes across two different manufacturers almost never works — you get near-misses that read worse than deliberate contrast. Only Imperial offers anything comparable in our range, at a lower tier.
The Seven Models
Fulton — from $4,499
The most architectural table in the lineup, and the entry point to the brand. Its design intent is monolithic — the effect of something carved from a single block rather than assembled. Four thick squared legs, a straight apron, a clean uninterrupted frame, finished in black satin over solid aspen and poplar. Nothing ornamental anywhere on it.
Built dimensions run 108" L × 33" W × 32" H in the 9ft, 145" × 33" × 32" in the 12ft, and 169" × 33" × 32" in the 14ft, with weights climbing from roughly 180 lbs to over 700 lbs across that range. It's the only Plank & Hide available in 9ft, which makes it the brand's answer for smaller rooms.
Best for: contemporary and transitional spaces, minimalist interiors, anywhere visual clutter would fight the room.
Deco — from $4,699
Art Deco-inspired, and the most stylistically specific table in the collection. Deco as a design language means geometric repetition, stepped forms, and strong symmetry — an idiom almost nobody else in shuffleboard attempts. If your home leans period, or you want a table that reads as a deliberate design choice rather than a game purchase, this is the one to look at.
Paxton — from $5,999 and Lucas — from $5,999
The middle of the range, identically priced and aimed at buyers who want more cabinet presence than the Fulton without the stylistic commitment of the Deco or Beaumont. Compare the two directly on the product pages — at the same price, this comes down entirely to which design you prefer.
Isaac — from $6,299 and Otis — from $6,499
The upper-middle of the lineup, with more elaborate cabinetry and detail work than the mid-range models. Two hundred dollars separates them, so again the decision is aesthetic rather than economic.
Beaumont — from $6,999
The most furniture-forward table Plank & Hide makes, and the flagship. Solid oak and elm in a distressed silvered finish — a treatment that produces depth and tonal variation rather than a flat stain. Built dimensions are 145" L × 33" W × 32" H in the 12ft and 169" × 33" × 32" in the 14ft.
Silvered and distressed finishes suit rooms built around texture: stone, leather, exposed beams, mixed metals. It's also the model with a matching Beaumont pool table, making it the obvious choice for a coordinated build.
Best for: residential lounges, designer-specified spaces, and game rooms where the table is meant to be the centerpiece.
Construction
Plank & Hide tables share a consistent construction approach across the range.
Solid hardwood cabinets. Aspen and poplar on the Fulton, oak and elm on the Beaumont, with other models varying. These are solid wood frames, not veneered particleboard.
Single-piece playfield. This is worth dwelling on. The cabinet ships in two pieces, but the playfield does not — it arrives as one continuous surface. Sectional playfields, used by some manufacturers to ease shipping, can develop seams that catch pucks or produce inconsistent glide as the sections move independently. A single-piece bed avoids that entirely.
Poured polymer surface. The playfield is sealed under poured polymer, which provides the hard, fast surface pucks glide on and protects the wood beneath from moisture and wear. Unlike traditional finishes that thin with use and require periodic professional resurfacing, a polymer top is designed to last the life of the table.
Climate adjusters. Standard across the range, with six fitted on the 14ft models. Wood responds to humidity — a playfield will crown or cup slightly as seasons change, and the symptom is every puck drifting the same direction regardless of technique. Climate adjusters let you tension the bed back to flat. On any solid hardwood table these are essential equipment, and their presence distinguishes serious manufacturers from ones cutting corners.
Wooden abacus scorers set into both ends of the cabinet, in keeping with the furniture-first approach — no electronic units or plastic bead rails.
One note on specifications: playfield dimensions and materials are reported inconsistently across sources for these tables, so confirm the exact figures on the individual product page for the model you're considering. At this price point those numbers matter, and you should buy on confirmed specifications rather than approximations.
The Delivery Problem, Solved
Here's something worth appreciating, because anyone who has bought a long shuffleboard understands the issue.
A 14-foot table does not fit through a door. Manufacturers handle this in one of two ways: ship the playfield in sections and join them on site, or ship the cabinet in sections and keep the playfield whole. The first is easier logistically and worse for gameplay. Plank & Hide does the second — two-piece cabinets that reassemble in the room, with the playfield remaining a single continuous piece.
That's the right trade-off, and it means you can put a 14ft table in a basement without removing a window. Combined with white glove delivery and in-room installation, which these tables are frequently sold with, it addresses the practical anxiety that stops a lot of people from buying at this size.
Confirm what's included for your address and model before ordering — contact us and we'll sort out the details.
Sizing Your Room
Plank & Hide builds mostly in 12ft and 14ft, with the Fulton also offered in 9ft.
- 9ft (Fulton only) — roughly 15 to 16 feet of room length. Shop all 9ft tables.
- 12ft — roughly 18 to 20 feet. The most common choice for home game rooms. Shop all 12ft tables.
- 14ft — roughly 20 to 22 feet. A more demanding, more rewarding game. Shop all 14ft tables.
One measurement that catches people out: Plank & Hide cabinets are about 33 inches wide, noticeably wider than most shuffleboards. Allow 8 feet of room width rather than the usual 7 — that extra width is part of what gives these tables their furniture presence, but it does need accounting for.
Plank & Hide doesn't build 16ft and longer. If you want tournament length, Champion goes to 22ft and Berner to 22ft as well. If your room can't take 9 feet with clearance, start with space-saving shuffleboards.
What You Give Up
Worth being straight about, because every design-led brand trades something for the design.
Playfield thickness. Champion and Berner build 3-inch maple beds — the thickest specification in home shuffleboard, and genuinely better at holding flatness across decades. Plank & Hide's playfields are substantial but not at that ceiling.
Length range. No 16ft, 18ft, or 22ft options. For a serious league-style player, that's disqualifying on its own.
Commercial suitability. These are residential pieces. A bar or rec center should be looking at Champion, which builds specifically for continuous commercial use with coin-op options.
None of this makes Plank & Hide a worse buy — it makes it a different buy. If you're choosing a table primarily on how it plays, the specification brands win. If you're choosing on how it looks in the room, the seven-design range is worth more than half an inch of maple.
Maintenance
Wax by feel. Reapply when glide slows. Play frequency determines the interval, not the calendar.
Sweep between games. The included board sweep keeps wax distributed evenly. Uneven distribution is the usual explanation when a table starts playing differently at one end.
Protect the cabinet finish. This matters more on Plank & Hide than on plainer tables. Distressed and silvered finishes on models like the Beaumont are hand-applied and don't touch up easily. Dry or lightly damp cloth, no chemical cleaners, no abrasives, and use coasters — a ring on a $7,000 cabinet is permanent.
Tune the adjusters seasonally. Straightedge across the bed two or three times a year. Adjust if you see light beneath it or if pucks drift consistently.
Control the environment. Direct sun will fade a hand-applied finish faster than anything else. Keep the table away from windows, vents, exterior doors, and unconditioned spaces.
The optional maintenance kit covers most of what you'll need.
Is Plank & Hide Right for You?
Yes, if the table will live in a visible room rather than a dedicated game space, design matters as much as gameplay, you want more than two or three cabinet options to choose from, you're coordinating with a matching pool table, or you need a 14ft table that will actually get through your door.
Choose a specification brand instead if you play seriously and want the thickest available playfield, you need 16ft or longer, or the table is going into a commercial venue — see Champion, Berner, or Holland.
Push further into design if Plank & Hide reads too conventional for your space — RS Barcelona and Four Hands make genuine statement pieces.
Spend less if $4,500 is beyond the plan. Playcraft and Imperial cover the middle of the market with hardwood construction at lower prices.
Look elsewhere entirely for LED rails (light-up), a dining conversion (dining/conversion), or a weatherproof build (outdoor).
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