2nd Game Board
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:18 am
The Lucus Lucularnum board (previous post)is actually quite a hit at the house here.
One of the teens was inspired by this and asked for help on another old Roman game (i forget the name at the moment)
but its been great getting him down in the shop with me working out wood problems. Those areas we agree on
have been in short supply for a few years-so to get him back a little and spend some time man to man is a pleasure .
Following a similar vein to the last board- we are routing a channel in red oak plywood for walnut inlay.
I convinced him that overhead routing wasn't dangerous and got his hand on the SS - a step in the right direction
He had a great idea to magnetize the board and play pieces and press fitted some small permanent magnets to create the effect he wanted.
Proceeding to the inlays- we needed to recess the circular walnut board points to accommodate the magnets-we didn't route the press fit holes in the board deep enough.
Here it is almost complete-showing the magnetic force the magnets exert-play pieces self locating and hanging vertically in space on the board.
Play pieces are mahogany and birch (?) with press magnets in their bases.
I will post a final pic once he is done with polyurethane on everything.
b
One of the teens was inspired by this and asked for help on another old Roman game (i forget the name at the moment)
but its been great getting him down in the shop with me working out wood problems. Those areas we agree on
have been in short supply for a few years-so to get him back a little and spend some time man to man is a pleasure .
Following a similar vein to the last board- we are routing a channel in red oak plywood for walnut inlay.
I convinced him that overhead routing wasn't dangerous and got his hand on the SS - a step in the right direction
He had a great idea to magnetize the board and play pieces and press fitted some small permanent magnets to create the effect he wanted.
Proceeding to the inlays- we needed to recess the circular walnut board points to accommodate the magnets-we didn't route the press fit holes in the board deep enough.
Here it is almost complete-showing the magnetic force the magnets exert-play pieces self locating and hanging vertically in space on the board.
Play pieces are mahogany and birch (?) with press magnets in their bases.
I will post a final pic once he is done with polyurethane on everything.
b