Building a GO BOARD, a woodworking beginner’s guide

#Go-board #Woodworking
In this video, I present my DIY go board, a classic game equipment.
Using simple construction materials, this represents a quick, inexpensive and easy woodcraft.
I included all process from design, cutting, assembling, surface treatment to refinish, with all errors I had to, and thus you also might need to deal with.
Materials used:
Spruce laminated boards, 470x500mm, 24mm thickness, 2 each
Wooden legs, 100mm height, a set of 4 moongori.com/goods/view?no=811153
Wood filler, Danish oil and transparent lacquer, etc
Tools:
Random orbit sander, with various grit sanding disks
Jigsaw, drill, etc
You can download the SketchUp schematics here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1lOB2...

[@billtetley1596]

The beauty in this board is the love and time invested in to it by its maker. No amount of money can replace that.

[@Tinker_Box]

Thank you so much for the warm comments. I was also very proud when I saw my kid playing the game with his grandpa on what I have made!

[@KarolBrejna]

I do appreciate you sharing the whole story, including the mistakes you had made ;) It certainly will help others not to repeat them! Great project. Thanks for sharing.

[@Tinker_Box]

Karol Brejna Thanks a lot for your kind words!

[@thomasheap329]

Best video I’ve seen so far, similar results to the most complicated ones! Thank you!

[@joshuakurtenbach1972]

This is great! It was good to see someone do this, I am hoping to make a 15x15 board for renju, so this was very helpful.

[@TheJuaniji]

Superb..... Better than a kaya goban. Master piece that will last thousands of years. Just the stones and bowls and ready to play.... You give hope to those who can't afford the kaya super expensive boards. As I think, a Go set doesn't need to be so expensive.

[@Tinker_Box]

Right. Simplicity is the beauty when it comes to go. From rules to the equipment.

[@JohnSmith008]

Very good!!! Thank you!!!

[@raheemmalik47]

This was amazing! You did a wonderful job and I think you detailed everything really well

[@paulschmolke188]

A smart approach to making this board. A good video, mistakes and all. Very informative. Enjoyed watching you work on it and in the end, it looks wonderful...ready for a game.

[@Tinker_Box]

Thank you so much for this great comment!

[@markus3074]

Nice!

[@neonmagic3980]

Super!

[@rosamurphy6988]

Best diy Go board vid 👌 ♥ thank you!

[@Tinker_Box]

Thank you so much!

[@tetramorphe7658]

Very nice result!

[@Tinker_Box]

Thanks!

[@CazadoresDelAtardecer]

Great job!! Congratulations!! Greetings from Chile.

[@Tinker_Box]

Wow, from Chile! I wonder how popular the go is in your country??

[@badukplayer87]

Great project and it turned out very well! :)

[@Tinker_Box]

Thanks!

[@supplanterjim]

I would venture to say that the greatest result from this project is that which you learned from it. I was happy to see that the finished result didn't have that gaudy reflective lacquer soup look, like so many similar projects do. Nice work. I have no doubt your projects will increase in difficulty and in quality.

[@Tinker_Box]

supplanter Wow, your kind words cheers me up a lot! Thanks. :)

[@jessstuart7495]

Very nice. I'm planning on making a couple of oversized outdoor 9x9 go boards for kids in a few weeks. I found some black and white 9cm Frisbees I'm going to use as stones to make a board which is roughly 4 times as large as a regular 9x9 board (no feet though). I may use some of your techniques!

[@ilyapiro7685]

Масло потом маркер потом финишный лак. Надо попробовать. Делал без масло линии немного разошлись по волокнам . Немного

[@Tinker_Box]

Yes! This worked for me because, I think, Danish oil include some component (polyurethane) that smoothens the fiber.

[@piro801]

думал будет видео как человек в кимано катаной делает углубления и затем втирает тушь. но такой вариант нравится мне значительно больше так как маркер и линейку я смогу найти в отличие от катаны ))

[@apistosig4173]

Terrific - next time use Shellac - multiple coats ;-)

[@mrgames4people]

Beautiful work! I have some spare wood to work with and hope use this video as a guide for my own board

[@Tinker_Box]

mrgames4people Yes I hope you a great success. I’m happy that my video reached out to you. :)

[@balticseaguppies4377]

great job

[@Tinker_Box]

Thanks ;)

[@lefresh059]

I will do my own Goban soon. Thank you for the ideas and the mistake sharing. I see that you only have 695 subscribers, what a shame. Now you have 696 ;) Have a nice day.

[@Tinker_Box]

Thanks for cheering up!!!!

[@PELVIS361]

Very beautiful! I hope you guys are having fun using the board! I made some more simpler table-top boards myself, and drawing the lines always makes me nervous... I destroyed a few boards in the process this way.... You did a great job !

[@Tinker_Box]

Thanks

[@TikumpornKaewtiparat]

thx

[@mukkhon306]

와...대박....

[@Tinker_Box]

감사합니다!!

[@ReinOwader]

It is funny that you did same mistake that I did when drawing lines. It comes from trying to use logic instead of counting. From edge to center is 10 lines and we automatically think that we can divide this once again to get 5 + 5 lines. But we forgot that it is 10 lines not 10 squares. 10 lines make actually 9 squares. Later when I made few boards more I just created two strips of paper. One with 19 x 22mm and another 19 x 23mm. And then I used those two strips as my ruler to make marks on board. And later i used real metal ruler to draw straight lines between those marks as you did. Only difference from your method - I didn't use masking tape and I drew edge lines first. By the way - nice design of the board. I have always loved simple, angular and minimalistic boards more than those classic and expensive boards with carved legs. Only sad part is that here in Estonia there are not much Go players and my friends have different interests. So I play mainly online and I use real board only to play against AI on my phone (AI Factory - only on android). I like playing against AI Factory on board because I can then analyze and try different scenarios. One game takes usually whole week to finish one game :)

[@Tinker_Box]

Oh my God. That's EXACTLY WHAT I DID!!!! LOL This is an excellent explanation of errors that makers may face. Also, a very detailed tip for how to draw a perfect go grid: I'll try your method when I get to make another. How did you get into this remote culture? I'm curious. :) Anyway, thank you very much for taking time to share this to the community. :) :)

[@ReinOwader]

@@Tinker_Box In 80s, I had in my childhood one book “1000 games” (its in estonian) and I already knew checkers and chess. And in this book was one section about boardgames, and there was picture of Shogi. I was facinated of how it looked and I let my dad to cut out shogi stones from plywood so I could paint marks on it and learn to play. Later I discovered also Xiangqui, Go, aftican Mancala and Backgammon. But because rules of Go are so simple (you can start playing after 10 minute introduction) and because one of my friends got Go board and stones for birthday, we started playing and I got hooked. He sadly didn’t. Movie Alpha Go also helped.

[@barniyamum]

gj yo... did u ever squared/cubed a big tree trunk to make a go board?

[@mattt5970]

Awesome video and beautiful board! Inspired me to try making my own, thanks! Also, very nice music, can you tell us the artist or where you got it from?

[@Tinker_Box]

These are free-to-use musics found from studio.kzbin.info/door/CfZqDkK8B-hgNsQs2-u3Zgmusic

[@DaimondRus]

Thanks for sharing your project. Are you ok with just drawing lines on the board?

[@Tinker_Box]

Yes. I think the lacquer layer finish worked out. Didn't find any problem with that until now.. Sorry for the late response!

[@marcelosoto-quiroga1965]

Great job! Neat and clean work. A piece of 0.5 or 1 mm thick felt under each leg would be perfect to avoid scratching the wooden floor and besides, it'd probably help fixing that "three leg stance" it apparently had.

[@Tinker_Box]

Thanks for sharing the great tip for all of us!

[@JustSomeInternetDude]

Nice board, will you share the .SKP

[@Tinker_Box]

Good point. I have been thinking about this for some time, so please stay tuned!

[@JustSomeInternetDude]

@@Tinker_Box looking forward to it. thanks

[@Tinker_Box]

Hi, I just added the download link in the description above. Please let me know if it works alright!

[@JustSomeInternetDude]

@@Tinker_Box loads in Sketchup just fine, thank you.

[@PakguardPSRU]

What are your pen write line on board?

[@Tinker_Box]

Do you mean what pen I used? It's better known as a 'Sharpie' in the US. I used a generic and cheap one from a local store.

[@PakguardPSRU]

@@Tinker_Box thank you but i'm in thailand

[@Tinker_Box]

@@PakguardPSRU It’s also called a ‘felt tip’ pen. Its tip is made of sponge and it uses non-water soluble ink. It’s a very popular type and I’m sure you’ll easily find one in your local shops, just like anywhere in the world.

[@PakguardPSRU]

@@Tinker_Box I buy pigment ink to make goban

[@justin9202]

could you post an exact copy of your line template? I'd like to be able to replicate this but am getting stuck on the lines.

[@Tinker_Box]

Unfortunately I lost the template file. It was such a simple grid that I didn't try to keep. Hopefully, you could create one using any drawing or even word processor app. Sorry!

[@justin9202]

@@Tinker_Box it's fine, it's just that gobans are a specific distance for the lines both length and height wise and would be useful to have an accurate template

[@Tinker_Box]

@@justin9202 Right. Gobans are actually specified even to the height. In my making though, I sticked to the size of individual cells, but the margins and the height aren't 100% accurate to the specification.

[@justin9202]

@@Tinker_Box well everyone has their own taste, I'll see what I can do when I make one tnx

[@SJBananaCheese]

F to pay respect for sand discs

[@Tinker_Box]

^^

[@youhancui3973]

재미 있어요?

[@Tinker_Box]

모르죠. 제가 아니라 아들과 아버지가 했거든요 ^^