ALVIN Portable Drafting Board Size 23" x 31" Model PXB31 Easily Adjustable Drafting and Architecture Tool for Students and Professionals Drawing Board with Ergonomic Carrying Handle, 23 x 31 Inches

I was looking for a board to use with 18" x 24" sketching paper. This fits the bill perfectly. The board was well packaged, I was concerned at first because it was not secondarily packaged and there were some dents. But upon opening, it was obvious that the the generous perimeter padding had made sure there were no dings. As a former architect, I will testify this is no professional Mayline parallel rule, but it works perfectly fine and has an acceptable smooth action that stays parallel. It also has several adjustment options that work well. The drafting surface is smooth and well attached.

Great drafting and drawing board. Straightedge slides smoothly and remains parallel. Lock knobs lock it in place. All in all a great portable drawing surface - IF - all the packaging is included.While I did order this board in a damaged box at a reduced price (which I have done in the past with great success, I might add), one of the foam packaging corners was left out! Net result - destroyed board! Sure, Amazon arranged for a free return and even threw in $20 for my trouble, but I now have to explain to my client why my finished product will arrive late!Lesson learned - DO NOT BUY DAMAGED BOX ITEMS! Ouch!!

This is a well constructed nicely finished portable board. The parallel bar is accurate and nicely adjustable. Drafting surface smooth and defect free. It's a bit "sluggish"when tracking but good enough. Glad I bought it. Excellent packaging which I'll use to store when not in use.

We bought this to mount on antique drafting stand and it work d great.

This is a replacement for my old board (15+ years). I am using it for drawing and watercolor painting. I purchased the largest size which is a bit larger than the old board. I use the collapsible legs when I am drawing and then I fold the legs under and lay it flat for painting. I love that it is large enough to accommodate a full size piece of watercolor paper. I have the ruler at the top but will probably remove it as I did before. Very sturdy and takes abuse well. Nice and heavy so it doesn't move. Great product!

The legs on this drawing board only bring it to an angle of about 12 deg. And then the slide mechanism catches on the table that it is standing on. The slide has an undercut or rabit along the drawing edge. This ok for using pen, but not good for supporting triangles and other drawing aids. Otherwise a good sturdy product.

First of all, this drawing board was just what I wanted. Nice and big. Hence the 5 stars given to IT. BUT it has been rendered completely useless by the shoddy packaging. I've owned drawing boards like this before and it takes EFFORT to do this much damage. The packaging was in a shambles when it arrived. The cardboard was thin, flimsy and wholly inadequate to the task protecting a precision technical drawing surface. The only things holding the cardboard box together were plastic shipping straps. When I cut those, the box fell completely apart. ALL of the glued surfaces on the cardboard had come unglued. None of the protecting styrofoam for the corners of the board, the work surface, straightedge knobs, carrying handle was in place because there was NOTHING holding these bits in place. The drawing surface had gouges, the plastic finishing on the edges of the drawing board was broken off and bits were missing, two knobs for adjusting the straightedge were gone and the carrying handle had been completely stripped from the back with screws missing. Any protrusion (like the rubber feet) had poked through the cardboard. The box had disintegrated and provided ZERO protection to what would have been an absolutely stunning drawing board. I'd love to ship it back in the original packaging but it's not worth the effort. Perhaps I'll wrap it up in old newspaper to return it. That would just about equal the lack of quality protection given to the drawing board.

Somewhat disappointed. The parallel bar has no rollers n the surface in contact with the board. Kind of defeats the purpose. I taped small folded squares of paper to its bottom surface so in glides over the bird and ultimately a piece of vellum, but these will have to be periodically replaced of course. It’s acceptable and works reasonably well but it should have rollers for this price. The board itself is likely particle board (bad) with melamine bonded to both sides. Again, minimally acceptable. It has rubber feet and fold out legs to angle the bird on a table top surface, which is useful. But had I known that the parallel bar was going to be sub-par I would have purchased a board without a parallel bar and then purchased a “real” parallel bar. It works, but, overpriced for what you’re getting, in my opinion.

Although a bit more expensive than some of the others out there, don’t bother with anything other than this drafting table! It is excellent!!My only reservations are that the rubberized bumper on the levered ruler wasn’t glued on well and I’ve since had to remove it. But this is a totally minor issue.One thing I would have liked was a ruled surface, but thankfully an old cutting board for quilting fits perfectly underneath.Overall, don’t bother with other products — this is what you want to have!

Love it’s portability. It enables me to move my work to a lighted area and then set it aside when I’m done for the day.

J'ai beaucoup utilisée cette table à dessin 24x36 pouces pour l'université en architecture: la règle reste fixe lorsque vissée sur les côtés, il a aussi des appuis ouvrables pour l'accoter sur une table, ce qui est très pratique.Toutefois, la règle glisse moins bien et cela reste cher pour une règle parallèle.

Le produit est tel qu'annoncé. Très satisfaite.

Actually, better product than I expected. I expected okay, but it's really pro quality. I've worked on worse drafting boards in school.