Wooden risk board from scrap

Beave2012 · Post by **Beave2012** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:39 pm

So this weekend I continued to find more uses for scrap from my scroll saw shelf in my other thread. So far this is what is complete since I wanted to get a traveling trophy for my Risk Games... (Europe is still drying Btw, and nothing is glued down) (oh and I'll stain the frame too)

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It's based entirely on using scrap so Asia got a little choppy. The frame is a 2x4 piece. The only money I spend on it was stain. (now what to do with a quart of blue wood stain...)

Of course I don't have to be cheap... And use proper hardwoods of sufficient size...

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This one my father made for me a few years back... Cost more than my stain I bet...

ERLover · Post by **ERLover** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:24 am

masonsailor2 · Post by **masonsailor2** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:28 am

That is very cool. Nice idea !
Paul

BuckeyeDennis · Post by **BuckeyeDennis** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:03 pm

Beave2012 wrote:So this weekend I continued to find more uses for scrap from my scroll saw shelf in my other thread. So far this is what is complete since I wanted to get a traveling trophy for my Risk Games... (Europe is still drying Btw, and nothing is glued down) (oh and I'll stain the frame too)

IMAG0031-1600x900.jpg
It's based entirely on using scrap so Asia got a little choppy. The frame is a 2x4 piece. The only money I spend on it was stain. (now what to do with a quart of blue wood stain...)

Of course I don't have to be cheap... And use proper hardwoods of sufficient size...

IMAG0035-1600x900.jpg
This one my father made for me a few years back... Cost more than my stain I bet...

I really like those cool-looking corner-bracket things on your father's version, and I just salted away the photo so that I could steal the idea sometime when I make a frame. It appears that they would add some substantial mechanical reinforcement, in addition to looking cool.

But then I got to wondering. Were those corner brackets planned all along, or were they invented in order to hide a bad miter joint? If the latter, I'm even more impressed with them!

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 12:07 am

Nifty Idea, Beave! I like everything about it. Don't know anything about risk games, but, like your Dad's, makes a interesting wall hanging.

Thanks for showing us!

berry · Post by **berry** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:55 am

I don't play but I think it's a great idea and well executed.

reubenjames · Post by **reubenjames** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 6:00 pm

I do play, and I do know a lot about Risk...and I still think it's awesome!!

Would be an awesome thing to crank out on a CNC for gifts, etc. Though that might take the "fun" out of all that scroll sawing...

Beave2012 · Post by **Beave2012** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:56 pm

reubenjames wrote:I do play, and I do know a lot about Risk...and I still think it's awesome!!

Would be an awesome thing to crank out on a CNC for gifts, etc. Though that might take the "fun" out of all that scroll sawing...

I honestly made this in around 2 hours plus staining... Super easy to make (love the idea of natural borders because no one can tell how exact you are on a coast line or following a river).

I could probably make around 8 a weekend. Lol, cheap and easy.

Beave2012 · Post by **Beave2012** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:56 pm

As some of you know, I also post on instructables.com with a How-To for people. So I added an instructable there. Incase you want to see more in depth how it all came together.

http://www.instructables.com/id/100-Woo ... rom-Scrap/

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