Has anyone successfully used an acrylic top for the table rather than a glass one? I take the top off of my end table regularly, either to flatten the berm or to take close-up photos, and acrylic isn't prone to shattering and sending shards halfway across the room if I mishandle it.
I ordered an acrylic top and it's fine except for one problem-- I wind up with sand stuck to the underside of the acrylic due to static electricity.
We did test acrylic early on on our prototypes - but abandoned the idea because of the static issue you describe. However - you needn't worry about the glass shattering. It's tempered, and not easily broken. In the unlikely event you drop it on a stone / ceramic floor, it could shatter (and the pieces could end up spread over a large area), but they would not be sharp - more like small irregular cubes. Here's the result of our early "toughness testing" - https://www.instagram.com/p/BTkTRMoAYMN/
Bruce (accidentally signed in as Bev)
That's good to know, thanks!
I live in a warehouse loft and my floors are the original century-old concrete. In the 20 years that I've lived here I've shattered quite a lot of stuff and I occasionally find random bits of glass in odd locations. I guarantee that my handling a glass tabletop regularly would become a matter of "When?" rather than "If?"
I will continue experimenting.
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