Crokinole - national sport of Canada.
Looks like a lot of counters! Writing of counters - did you make your own buy?
Is the board from solid timber that has been laminated into a board?
The wood was a 1" x 36" diameter unfinished butcher block type of tabletop that I purchased from Lowe’s then cut the lines, numbers, and trench into. It is solid in the sense that it was a single piece of wood when I started
The pucks were purchased, the ones I was making were a lot of effort for little return (in other words they were a real pain so I purchased)
The pegs are 3/8" oak dowels.
The next one that I make will be from a butcher block counter top, acacia or oak-haven’t decided
I’ve already purchased the pucks and scoring pegs and made up a scoring board
If not seen a board like that before, or am I just uncultured?. Any specific purpose for the wavey board bottom?
I had never heard of it until a friend asked me to make one for him (same with Crokonolie Board)
The idea, i guess, is to serve cheese, cold cuts, olives, etc in a nice presentation.
I figured the 3 waves would give a separation for three different choices - cheese and crackers or whatever.
From what i have seen they are usually flat which seemed rather pedestrian to me if you are trying to be hoi poloi (or some such thing, out of my pay scale)
The finish is Howard Butcher Block Conditioner, food grade mineral oil with beeswax
Nice charcuterie board. I’m a big fan of them. I have not seen one done in the waves before. How did your friend like it?
He liked it a lot. Another friend has asked me to make him one too. I’,m thinking of edge grain hickory instead of the pine with oak edges. Pine is too soft and dings easily.
Thank goodness we don’t have to drill those holes by hand
My friend decided he would rather have a walnut charcuterie board instead of end grain hickory so here it is
The ball feet are a nice step up over the typical felt pads or little rubber feet. Much more in scale with the wood round.
Those are nice. Were those cut 3d or was it contour router bits?
What kind of wood is that?
unfortunately I cheated on the feet. Hobby Lobby had those 2" rounds, some sort of maple by looks of it, for a really good price. 2" seemed to be the right size for the lift and the scale.
Signs can be fun too, they don’t have to be square pieces of wood. These were Apple (horse) and walnut for the other two. The heart is one of four tributes that I made for the kids that were taken from us at Oxford High School
I’ve just ordered the plans for the Genesis clock and was wondering what method you used to secure the parts while cutting them. Tabs, double sided tape, leaving an onion skin, something else?
I am thinking of using a 60 deg V bit to mark the drill holes and then drill them. Is that what you did as well?
Thanks
Martin