The Woodshop Shed

Olivewood slab cribbage board

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


Made of a slab of olivewood I got from Woodcraft. Stripped the bark off with a small drawknife then scrubbed most of the remaining crud off with a wire brush in a drill and by hand followed by some sand paper. Ran it through the planer since one side was rough and the other was already smooth. Went through with a dental pick to pull out the twig in the middle of a knot that got lose and was buried in the slab, filled the hole with black CA glue and the other small knots and cracks got filled with brown CA glue.Sanded it to 320grit on both sides before I set up the Rockler cribbage board template. Started drilling and realized that I had the template backwards to I had to chop off about 3 inches on one end which negated my plan to drill a hole at the top of the board for the pegs to rest in. Took a few days to drill all of the wholes with an electric hand drill. One hole lines up exactly with the knot that had to be filled with CA glue which gummed up the bit and lead to it being soaked overnight in acetone to dissolve the CA glue while I sprayed more accelerator down into the glue knot.Sanded the top of the board with 80 grit and moving up because of circular marks left by the self-centering bit.Finished the board with two coats of Watco Danish oil and then let it sit for over 3 days to make sure it was nice and dry before taking it outside and hitting it with some coats of high gloss lacquer from a spray can.

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