B.O.B.
2nd April 2009, 10:36 PM
Hi all!
I have recently completed a marketry backgammon board and am now looking to make the coloured circular counters.
A friend suggested turning them on a lathe but I don't have access to one, plus I want to cut a pattern on the upper surface. I thought of using a rosette cutter, similar to a forstner bit that cuts a circular plug with a profiled top into a flat board. I thought I could then free the plug by ripping the board on a table saw. Unfortunately the rosette cutters I can find do not cut the right sort of profile.
Can someone suggest where I might find such a device or alternatively another method for making round game counters out of timber? Or, heaven forbit, where I can by the plastic ones used on draughts boards?
Thanks
Bob
I have recently completed a marketry backgammon board and am now looking to make the coloured circular counters.
A friend suggested turning them on a lathe but I don't have access to one, plus I want to cut a pattern on the upper surface. I thought of using a rosette cutter, similar to a forstner bit that cuts a circular plug with a profiled top into a flat board. I thought I could then free the plug by ripping the board on a table saw. Unfortunately the rosette cutters I can find do not cut the right sort of profile.
Can someone suggest where I might find such a device or alternatively another method for making round game counters out of timber? Or, heaven forbit, where I can by the plastic ones used on draughts boards?
Thanks
Bob