This is the last installment on the playing board construction, we’re going to move on to the case construction in the next segments. At this point the boards have been sitting in the press for a while, and they’ve been rough sanded level. Now it’s time to square them up and make sure all parts […]
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This section is about the sanding and fitting of the panels. They have been in the lamination press for a week or so now, and ready to come out and have the tape removed. The picture below shows the tape as I’m taking it off, and you can see the amount of residue left by
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In the last post we taped together the lamination for the playing board, now we need to put that onto a plywood panel so we can mount it into the case. The playing board will be the inside and the backer panel will be outside. The outside needs to look really good so I buy
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This section is going to cover the layout of the points, the center field, and the storage floor panel. All these pieces are on the same level and are glued to the backer board at the same time. One thing we need to establish is making sure our parts are all made about the same
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The above board is a custom request through Etsy, it is a larger board than I normally make, but the principals of making the board are the same. On the playing surface you see long triangle pieces in alternating dark and lighter colors as well as a light center field. Those are the parts I’m
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If you work with wood as much as I do, you accumulate a lot of scraps, and if you’re like me you just can’t seem to part with many of them, “They might come in handy for something one day”. I’ve got bins full of scraps, even separate them out by size sometimes and put
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The original build of my machine called for linear movement rails of v bearings and aluminum angle with an inverted v shape on the edge where the v bearing rides as shown below. The bearings were fitted on the top and bottom of the extruded aluminum rails, and were fully adjustable for level and pretension.
If you’ve worked with wood very long, you likely have found out that wood moves. Depending on what kind of woodworking you do, the movement will vary a little, or a lot. Turners will often start a vessel when the wood is green (not dried) and then allow the vessel to dry for a few
I remember watching Norm Abram on TV years ago and enjoyed each and every show. Those shows taught be a lot about woodworking. One of the things that I remember most is the warning “Always read and follow all the safety information on your power tools”. He also spoke about safety glasses, and that is
For some people woodworking is, and should be, done in the style found in the previous centuries where there were no power tools that used electricity. The only power tools were driven by water power or like sources. These can be found in places like Shaker villages in the north, Hancock Shaker Village is one
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