My son asked me to make him a Go Board, and here's the story, mostly through photos.
1. I Started with a poplar board I had left over from another project. I sawed it in half and glued the two halves together to make a 23 x 23 inch board.
2. I then used a planer and sander to chamfer the edges and smooth out the board.
3. My plan at this point was to use my router to carve the 18 x 18 grid (1 inch squares). But fortune smiled on me: a friend with access to a CNC machine carved the grid. He saved me a huge amount of time, and the outcome was so much better than what I could have accomplished on my own.
4. He also taught me about pocket screw jigs--they have changed my life!
5. In order to match the color of the Go-piece bowls, I stained the board a "cognac" brown, and used a black Sharpie to color in the grid. We discovered the black grid on the dark background was too hard to see, so I used an oil-based Sharpie to change the grid to white.
Click on this link if you would like to learn how to play Go.
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