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8th November 2012, 09:20 AM #1
Backgammon board
I've been asked to make a backgammon set for a friend. Can anyone suggest the best way to cut out the long tiangle bits for the board. I presume a jig of some sort on a table saw is the way to go.
Anyone have a jig design?
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9th November 2012, 06:42 AM #2
The playing surface and fields are normally veneered onto the case substrate. Not sure I'd pass veneer through a table saw!
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10th November 2012, 10:21 AM #3New Member
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Backgammon board
Hi dan,
I have made two backgammon boards.
One was very nice and made in a professional shop the other I made in my garage with only hand tools.
On the first one I used a CNC machine with a small bull nosed router to carve the design into the wood and it looks fantastic. It also took about 2 minutes.
On the second one I marked out the points by hand and then chiselled them out. That took AGES and also was very hard to get the wood to break off smoothly.
My advice, if you don't have access to a CNC machine would be to create a jig for your router and put a small V groove cutter in there or a bull nose cutter. That should leave a clean cut and be easily repeatable.
Hope that helps
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