Building the tray
Pucket backgammon game serving tray
building the tray.
To make projects for my daughter, is just about the best thing I know.
So when she told me she needed a serving tray, for her new apartment and had a backgammon on her wish list, I decided it was a chance.
It was just about at the same time I saw or LJ buddy doubleDD posting a pucket game and thought that would bee fun for drinking games, with her study friends (she study to become a Constructing architect), so I send you a thanks for the inspiration.
So now it was all about fulfilling her dreams and spice it up with a pucket game.
Of course I wanted it all in one piece, why not. ;-)
Pucket game is also known as: puck game, sling hockey, sling puck game.
Here the sketch I made as I went on, adjusted while working on the project and finally gave some colours once done, so others could get easier around it.
This was actually the first sketch, to be honest.
It was still winter, so what better way to spend the hours, than in a warm workshop creating.
Just a few weeks before, I found these wonderful hardwood boards in the street, just three houses away and yes, I love recycle, so of course I had to use them.
Sawing out the sides.
That will be luxury fire in the wood stove.
Planing to thickness.
When I see this picture, I wonder why I never use the digital read out I mounted… Guess it's the habit.
The size of the board was set due to the fact, I had some cut off's from thin ply, that I got a bunch of for next to nothing, the company had used the rest and sold the cut off's, I think a lot of companies should do that, it would be good for us all.
For the length, I looked at what proportion I liked and what seemed to give a good area, for playing the pucket game.
In comes the heavy artillery, this will make the fingers an easy and fast game.
I have really come to like this one and have always been a fan of the fingers, I think they are time less, meaning they never become or go out of fashion. Where dovetails are on an off and not all projects or styles go with them. As an architect, I have always been fascinated with the 'classic', where trends were never my big thing.
Don't read me wrong, I love dovetails on the right projects and time pieces where they fit, but try to say Le Corbusier and dovetail in the same sentence, without adding the word gun….
To make the fingers get to the centre, I make a wee spacer block.
And route the fingers.
Here a test piece to set it all up.
I tend to do test pieces more and more, it's like the immortality has gone with the years, to much scrap wood, comes with too much self confidence, laugh.
Well close enough to be accepted.
The final once are just perfect, so the setup time were worth it.
Frames, frames, frames.
That looks just fair, so I'm a happy monkey for now.
Making a few shavings, to make the tops, smooth and completely level.
Funny shavings, kind of makes me hungry.
Also tells me this is difficult wood, that want to split and crack.
Back to the test piece, now setting the depth for the rabbet, that will g´hold the plywood bottom in place.
My ohhh I have used that blade setting jig a lot, that was really a build worth making.
Running the test piece through the table saw a couple of times.
To find the right setting.
The bottoms were cut to size and fitted in the rabbets.
Looks good to me.
This might turn out quite decent.
The pucket game side, will need a divider in the middle, so I use some scrap to find the height and then cut a size to size.
Keeping the divider a wee bit over sized, so I can adjust once the tray is glued.
More setting on the table saw.
And a backstop on the saw on the first cuts, to avoid tear out.
Then just repetitive cuts, to make the opening for the pucket pieces to go through.
Like this.
And a wee clean up with a shoulderplane.
Really love this fellow, it just feels right in the hand.
That will be a fine fit, not too high, not too low.
And a workbench wood porn photo. Just to tell the truth in the background.
When I were working on this projects I were all over the place, working on the different parts at the same time, while waiting for things to dry and just what was more easy, but I have tried in this blog to keep the processes apart, to not confuse you guys, so you might sometimes see things from next part appear, like the backgammon on the plywood here.
Hope it can be to some inspiration, perhaps a tray…
Best thoughts,
MaFe
Pucket backgammon game serving tray
building the tray.
To make projects for my daughter, is just about the best thing I know.
So when she told me she needed a serving tray, for her new apartment and had a backgammon on her wish list, I decided it was a chance.
It was just about at the same time I saw or LJ buddy doubleDD posting a pucket game and thought that would bee fun for drinking games, with her study friends (she study to become a Constructing architect), so I send you a thanks for the inspiration.
So now it was all about fulfilling her dreams and spice it up with a pucket game.
Of course I wanted it all in one piece, why not. ;-)
Pucket game is also known as: puck game, sling hockey, sling puck game.
Here the sketch I made as I went on, adjusted while working on the project and finally gave some colours once done, so others could get easier around it.
This was actually the first sketch, to be honest.
It was still winter, so what better way to spend the hours, than in a warm workshop creating.
Just a few weeks before, I found these wonderful hardwood boards in the street, just three houses away and yes, I love recycle, so of course I had to use them.
Sawing out the sides.
That will be luxury fire in the wood stove.
Planing to thickness.
When I see this picture, I wonder why I never use the digital read out I mounted… Guess it's the habit.
The size of the board was set due to the fact, I had some cut off's from thin ply, that I got a bunch of for next to nothing, the company had used the rest and sold the cut off's, I think a lot of companies should do that, it would be good for us all.
For the length, I looked at what proportion I liked and what seemed to give a good area, for playing the pucket game.
In comes the heavy artillery, this will make the fingers an easy and fast game.
I have really come to like this one and have always been a fan of the fingers, I think they are time less, meaning they never become or go out of fashion. Where dovetails are on an off and not all projects or styles go with them. As an architect, I have always been fascinated with the 'classic', where trends were never my big thing.
Don't read me wrong, I love dovetails on the right projects and time pieces where they fit, but try to say Le Corbusier and dovetail in the same sentence, without adding the word gun….
To make the fingers get to the centre, I make a wee spacer block.
And route the fingers.
Here a test piece to set it all up.
I tend to do test pieces more and more, it's like the immortality has gone with the years, to much scrap wood, comes with too much self confidence, laugh.
Well close enough to be accepted.
The final once are just perfect, so the setup time were worth it.
Frames, frames, frames.
That looks just fair, so I'm a happy monkey for now.
Making a few shavings, to make the tops, smooth and completely level.
Funny shavings, kind of makes me hungry.
Also tells me this is difficult wood, that want to split and crack.
Back to the test piece, now setting the depth for the rabbet, that will g´hold the plywood bottom in place.
My ohhh I have used that blade setting jig a lot, that was really a build worth making.
Running the test piece through the table saw a couple of times.
To find the right setting.
The bottoms were cut to size and fitted in the rabbets.
Looks good to me.
This might turn out quite decent.
The pucket game side, will need a divider in the middle, so I use some scrap to find the height and then cut a size to size.
Keeping the divider a wee bit over sized, so I can adjust once the tray is glued.
More setting on the table saw.
And a backstop on the saw on the first cuts, to avoid tear out.
Then just repetitive cuts, to make the opening for the pucket pieces to go through.
Like this.
And a wee clean up with a shoulderplane.
Really love this fellow, it just feels right in the hand.
That will be a fine fit, not too high, not too low.
And a workbench wood porn photo. Just to tell the truth in the background.
When I were working on this projects I were all over the place, working on the different parts at the same time, while waiting for things to dry and just what was more easy, but I have tried in this blog to keep the processes apart, to not confuse you guys, so you might sometimes see things from next part appear, like the backgammon on the plywood here.
Hope it can be to some inspiration, perhaps a tray…
Best thoughts,
MaFe