Making a Cheap Crokinole Board
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I wanted to play Crokinole since watching a review on Shut Up and Sit Down, but decent boards are expensive, so I decided to make my own with materials I had lying around, despite having few tools, hardly any woodworking skills, and no workshop.
This video documents my failures and eventual success.
Music by Jason Shaw at audionautix.com
Great job! I love the perseverance and showing when things didn't work and trying again. That's the essence of wood working. Well done!
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Awesome job and I love that you changed your shirt when playing against yourself!
Love the video! Your creativity and tenacity are remarkable. Great build.
Man Thats a really cool idea using flooring for a board... never would have thought!!! Going to try it.
Great! Good Luck!
As someone who can’t knock a nail in straight I really enjoyed that well done, definitely need some wax on the board to speed it up and also some rubber bands around the pegs to get more rebound, excellent job though, well done
Great job!
I’m motivated to build my own board as well.
thanks for sharing
Thanks. It's great that you're going to build your own board. It's very satisfying to complete a project and fun to play.
Great video! Love seeing how people make their own boards
Pretty cool build!
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Nice work and well done persisting despite the set-backs.
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Good stuff, mate! If it were mine, now I would grab a bottle of Mothers California Gold spray wax (non-cleaning wax) and give that board a couple easy coats of wax to smooth out the action and let the discs start flying. Crokinole is a super fun game.
Thanks. Yeah, I keep meaning to get some wax to smooth the movement of the discs.
That was great. Cutting circles with any kind of jig pretty much requires a band saw. The other way I've seen it done is with a router. But with a jigsaw, even if you get everything tight, the blade on a jigsaw might drift. Cutting slow by hand and leaving a little on the outside is best. round it off with the sander. I've been thinking about making a second cheap crokinole board for travelling. And I do have some leftover boxes of laminate... You have inspired me. I wonder how the discs glide. Looks like they might have been a little sticky. I may get wax a piece of laminate and see.
Thanks for your comment. I was a little ambitious with the jig. The discs are a little sticky, but are more slippy with glide powder. I did actually wax the board with probably the wrong type of wax which didn't make any difference that I could tell.
@@havingago The circular saw to table saw jig was great. Most hardcore Crokinole players recommend a carnuba wax without any kind of "cleaning" agents. Many recommend this:
www.amazon.com/Mothers-05550-California-Brazilian-Carnauba/dp/B0002U2V1O
That made a big difference on my board. I may crack open that pack of laminate I have and do some tests.
@@ineedda6439 Thanks. I'll have to get some carnuba wax and give it a go.
@@havingago Something like this might have made it a bit easier.
www.woodmagazine.com/woodworking-how-to/wood-preparation/cutting-curves/how-do-i-make-a-perfect-circle-with-a-jigsaw
It would still not be perfect but it would be easier and quicker to setup most likely. I've done this before, but usually I just use a router screwed to a piece of plywood if I have to cut a circle
@@AuronJ Thanks. That would have been a good idea.
Nice video. Great idea to use the flooring. Built a Quarto game and looking for something else and your video hit the mark. It's also to easier to say I'll give it a go watching somebody cope with problems then watching somebody's CNC make it perfect first time everytime. Not that I'd pass up a CNC machine if it was given to me. Enjoyed the music as well. Also did you make the red and blue pieces?
Thanks. I'm glad you appreciated me dealing with problems; that's what I was going for (I should really make more videos). I bought the red and blue pieces from Amazon. Making those would have been a bit too ambitious after making the board.
BTW, I looked up that Quarto game you mentioned. Looks interesting.
Few tools and hardly any woodworking skills? Damn good job if so. Thanks for the video.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
Great job... But I think you scored it wrong at the end... Red still had more points but its only a 5 point difference not 10... Counters of opposite colours cancel each other out and are removed from the board... so 1 each from the 10s and 1 each from the 5s are removed then total... So 20 red and 15 blue...
Thanks for your comment. I've never heard of removing counters that cancel each other out, but even if you did that in this game, there would still be two blue counters valued at 5 each left on the board, so with red's 20 it would still be a 10 point difference.
Cool! Would a polyurethane coat not adhere to the laminate or did you not want to use it?
I am thinking of making something similar. To keep it on the cheap side, I am thinking of using round plywood tabletops that I have access to, but they are impregnated, so I am not sure whether the polyurethane/wax coats would work with them. And if I try to sand off the whole impregnated layer, I fear I might peel off more than the plywood could handle.
I did spray it with polyurethane (didn't record it), but I don't know that it made much difference. I keep meaning to get some car wax as people have suggested but haven't got round to it. If you have surfaces you are going to use, get some discs and see how well they glide before you start, maybe try some wax as well and see how well it works.
@@havingago Thanks for responding!
Great video mate!
Where did you get the print outs for the holes please?
cdn.instructables.com/ORIG/FOH/LD15/JZN5GW51/FOHLD15JZN5GW51.pdf You might need to log in. It's part of his whole build www.instructables.com/Lets-Make-a-Crokinole-Board/
Who won the game ;-P
did U use wax, clear coat finish of some kind to help the checkers slide?
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