Crokinole Board Build
It’s the “the greatest game you’ve never heard of.” Crokinole is a dexterity table game for 2-4 players that involves flicking discs (adorably called “buttons”) across a circular board. For a Christmas gift, I took on the challenge of building a board from scratch. Not a project for the faint of heart, but one that ultimately resulted in beautiful end product. Keep reading for the breakdown of how it came together. It all starts with the wood. For this board, I decide to use a two-tone design; half black walnut, half reclaimed old-growth pine from a demolished Philly rowhome. Both need to be rough sawn on the band saw and then planed using our thickness planer. Once I had board of the same thickness, it was time to glue them up. After squaring up the edges of the boards on the table saw, I glued the 3 board each type together to get a total width of 13 inches. Nearly all crokinole boards, including this very helpful Instructable, make their playing surface from a single piece of plywood. The four quadrants are then marked on the surface. However, I wanted