You could go to a 100 person tournament and there might be two or three people under 50 there. It's pretty rare to see anybody below 30 playing. Although traditionally for two players, it can involve more. 'I just started finding them in yard sales, thrift stores, that kind of thing, and just became really fascinated with the variety that was out there.'Ĭribbage involves playing and grouping cards in combinations for points, and moving pegs on a rectangular board. I've grown up playing since I was a little child,' said Cory Woodrow, 49, who also collects cribbage boards and has about 75, many on display in his home office.

One man's quest to spread cribbage around the world.

So do the mock-ivory pegs that you can buy in luthier suppliers for holding the ball-ends of the string in place in many steel-strung guitars (if your board is quite large). If you don't practice a new operation on scrap, then you'll be practicing on your project, and that can lead to expensive mistakes.īTW, large copper nails 'turned' in the drill-press with a file and emery make nice pegs.

Whatever solution you adopt, do a practice run on a waster piece (made from the same wood and finished the same as your project) first to let you see if there are any pitfalls, tearout etc. Cut them to size and stick them to your blanks with weak wallpaper paste and it'll save a lot of marking out.Ī quicker and more accurate solution is to make up a jig and use the drill-press.īest solution of all is to have an engineering friend make a template in mild steel, DS tape it to the blank and simply drill through. You can speed things up by producing a template on your PC using something like Visio or a CAD program and churning out a bunch of them on A4. By the time you've marked each hole accurately, centrepopped them, pilot drilled, main drilled and deburred (in my case), you're looking at about 700 operations per board.

Marking out and drilling by hand is a long job.

The human eye is quite forgiving when it comes to matching curves, but it is red-hot on straight lines, and a single hole 1/2mm out in any direction will stick out like a dog's tackle. Don't underestimate what a PITA it is to drill all those holes. I've made several sets of bars skittles for local pubs and incorporated inlaid brass plates drilled as per cribbage boards for scoring.

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