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Here is my latest honey-do project. SHMBO picked up an electric dart board on one of her yard sale excursions and wanted me to build a cabinet for it to hang in our sun room. It's made of 1/2" MDF for the back, 3/4" ash for the frame and facing and I don't have a clue what the doors are made of. They are a couple of boards I rescued from a trash pile. If any of you have a guess I would really like to know what they are.
I sprayed the interior and outside of the box with flat black. The facing and doors are finished with 5 coats of wipe-on poly with a light once over with 0000 steel wool between coats. After the last coat dried I went over it with Johnson's Paste Wax applied with 0000 steel wool which gives it a super smooth, satin feel and look.
Thanks for looking and be sure to give your best guess as to what kind of wood the doors are.

I don't know what kind of wood it is, but it sure looks nice.

If not stained, based on wood grain and color my guess is mahogany.

Nice Dartboard cabinet.

As I am an LSU fan mine has a tiger I routed on the front.

lightnin wrote:Nice.. That will be one of my projects for my garage in the future.
For now there is no path long enough for that.
I used to play in darts tournaments won a bunch of cheap little trophies.
I didn't even save them. I saved the one I won in a Bass Tournament though.
Just for bragging rights First place

I spent a little over a year on an island in the south Atlantic. The island (Ascension Island) is a Crown Colony. Therefore, one of the major pass times was darts and the draw factor was the Locals against the Foreigners (from the USA).

I thought I had gotten pretty good. I left the Island with a couple trophies and three or four sets of competition darts. I don't know what made them competition. I think they were "balanced".

Whatever it was, they are just darts now. Darts with bent points from hitting the concrete floor.

Like so many other things, I have lost my touch.

FOR SALE: - three sets of "imported balanced competition darts". Each with different color feathers,:D

From a long time ago!

Nice job sir!
Where is the pool table and the bar?

You see...there is no end to the honey-do list. If she doesn't think of something to add, someone else will.

There is a pool table and dry bar adjacent to the alcove with the dart board, but I didn't make either. Those are the only sports I am still capable of doing after my back gets worse all I'll have left is checkers.