You build shit.” That pretty much sums it up. I recall my pal Roadrunner comparing his practice rig to mine one time. Of course, he had the tools and the skills to pull this off. My pal “Grits” built a beautiful ten footer out of maple wood that was a real work of art. Of course, one of the things I considered doing was building my own table. I would have preferred a ten footer, but the square footage for it just wasn’t there. So, I opted for a “tub” table that’s eight feet long. I even packed it with me when I did seminars on the road.Įventually I wanted to move on to a larger table, but I just didn’t have room in my house for a full-sized one and didn’t want to give up my garage for one. And for the next five years or so that was my primary rig. I bought real casino diamond pyramid rubber for the back wall and billiard cloth for the deck. The back wall was ten inches tall as well.

The sides were six inches tall at the front of the rug, running up to ten inches at the back. My first efforts were two feet wide by three feet deep. I’ve used everything from a cardboard box to an empty dresser drawer as a “practice rig,” but eventually I built a couple. When the dice setting bug bites you one of the first things players want to do is build some sort of practice rig.