Make a Reversi (Othello) Board | Plaid Friday Project

[@413DaveRN]

Using a table saw is way safer than black Friday shopping.

[@timsway]

hahaha! truth

[@dougptankerengr759]

Great project, I love Othello! Liked the torching method for coloring the dowel. Also a great cutting board video!

[@timsway]

I haven't played in years! Looking forward to relearning with Vance Maker :)

[@CammiesGarage]

Nicely done, Tim.

[@MultiGuitarify]

Thanks Tim! This is an awesome build. Halfway through mine, which I’m modifying/ designing to become a hnefatafl board. Works great, never used glue and clamps before. Definitely fun with my new table saw!

[@fynbo1007]

I like your boycott Black Friday and you made a beautiful board play. I just love it. Thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family

[@timsway]

thank you very much!

I really like, that you show different ways to make the playing pieces. This is why I love your channel :)

[@timsway]

Thanks! I wanted to make it a "basic tools" video - but then I didn't want to spend an hour hole-sawing out the pieces so I cheated :)

[@SterlingsWoodcrafts]

Board looks Great , and nice options for the pieces

[@timsway]

Thanks Sterling. Happy holidays

[@stanleyshostak2737]

Great simple project! Thanks for sharing and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

[@timsway]

thanks bro! It was a quick, easy one (but if you hole saw cut 72 pieces, you may get bored quick :)

[@sapelesteve]

That was a great project build Tim! Hope that you & yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving..............

[@PaulJohnsLife]

Wonderful project!

[@CNCminiProjects]

Love this one.... It's on my list to make!

[@8stringmonkey]

Very nice! I love playing othello. I am doing cutting cutting boards from cherry and "paint grade" maple I got fairly cheap from a local lumber mill because the boards were cracked or top/bottom pieces. Not reclaimed, but better than them running them through the process of making fire place pellets or something.

[@timsway]

indeed! I love using local wood; most tree cutters will give you free stumps (before they split them for firewood). you can split them and mill them yourself in small pieces with regular woodworking tools and an axe :)

[@GregsGarage]

I like PlaidFriday!!!

[@hippoandbearmakes3416]

Great video Tim. Got to say I do like the square pieces.

[@timsway]

me too. My plan for the video was to hole saw all of them but after a couple I went to the CNC. I thought of square after and like them better! lol. You could also make little hexagons from the squares on the band saw.

[@hippoandbearmakes3416]

tim sway how clean is a hole saw cut? I keep putting off making a draughts set for my son Bear (Age 8 and keeps asking) but the thought of cleaning all them circular pieces puts me off 😬! I like the idea of a square as I know how long it will take to clean up 😀. He also started asking for a chess set for Christmas 🎄 but we are not going there 🤣

[@timsway]

@@hippoandbearmakes3416 obviously a new, sharp hole saw will work best, but it is a PIA to clean up if you cut halfway from one side, half from the other it speeds it all up but you need a real accurate fence. check out last year's plaid friday vid where i made a simple chess set. easy pieces! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYbIdIybg9qZjJo

[@waynecreech]

Thanks Tim!

[@garagemonkeysan]

Yay Plaid Friday! Great video and project. Thanks for sharing! : )

[@geraldbrooks2763]

The home depot black friday ad played before this video made this hilarious

[@timsway]

too funny!

[@mrramz13]

Mr. Sway, Excellent as always. Only thing missing is a Seattle grunge band from the 90's playing in the background... (Plaid music - Plaid Friday)

[@timsway]

I get it, I get it!

[@mrramz13]

@@timsway I had no doubt that you would get it. The reveal was for those either too young or from another country/culture...

[@SMee67]

Love it, looks cool. Othello here in Oz. CNC makes for short work.

[@timsway]

Yes. My understanding is "Othello" is a registered brand name and has starts slightly different than reversi, which is how they keep their trademark. Like Kleenex or Band-Aid.

[@SMee67]

@@timsway gotta just love how some get around the red tape to make money from others ideas... Not!

[@phunkissartisticcreations2316]

That doesn't look reclaimed at all, since it came out so beautifully finished! Our favorite part was using the dowel and the torch. Great philosophy to make your own gifts for the holidays. We have done that many times, and we find that people appreciate it so much more than something bought at the store.

[@timsway]

Testify!

[@robshamel3210]

Great project! Other design options, save glue by cutting in grid pattern on table saw or router table, just a thought...

[@timsway]

right, and paint or inlay the stripes. good idea!

[@robshamel3210]

tim sway or burn the recesses and sand the char off the top.

[@StamosTee]

Loved it! Black Friday plague hit Greece a couple of years ago... LOL

[@timsway]

It seems more and more nations have that problem. American values tend to spread around the globe, for better AND for worse!

[@bullandtimber]

U know what Tim, I love the video, but I love the message more! I've never heard of the Othello game, but I'll definitely check it out, thanks!

[@timsway]

Cheers! Othello is the brand name, reversi is a no longer copyrighted name, if I remember correctly. Google it!

[@MattBerryCustom]

Great build Tim and a great message. When I talk to my friends and say that we’re in a form of modern slavery to corporations, encouraged to work harder and harder to buy more and more useless crap that we don’t need, they call me a lunatic and tell me to go get my aluminium foil hat! What can you do? 🤷‍♂️

[@timsway]

don't say it out loud!! the lizard people are listening.

[@MattBerryCustom]

tim sway I just knew you’d believe in me! Change to cypher 3 in all future communications. 😉

[@brannvalravn4280]

I use sawdust and wood glue to fill in voids. Also what should I use to glue dear antler fragments to wood?

[@timsway]

Epoxy sticks almost everything to almost everything else

[@matt_williams1015]

I like that game, and good looking board. I like the square ones also, but the round is more traditional

[@timsway]

yes, but without a cnc I don't think I'd want to make all those circles!

[@JohnMadeit]

I Like the square ones also.

[@timsway]

yea, me too.

[@bqqstin]

Love it Tim! #BoycottBlackFriday. Makers gotta make!

[@adamquincey4371]

Excellent...! Cheers...

[@sebbeforsberg1600]

We got black friday in Sweden now as well, thanks Ammerica. 😒 What we dont have though is thanksgiving.

[@timsway]

Black Friday is bad enough, if you start celebrating the genocide of a continent by slaughtering 50 million turkeys and making fake "Indian" headdresses from construction paper, it's a bad sign for Sweden!

[@johnlemus7921]

This was very cool, Tim. The end result, apart from being a functional game, it's really pretty. What would you say is the prettiest wood you have used on a project?

[@timsway]

tough call. It's hard to beat walnut for looks, workability and stability - plus it grows local. I try to keep my work green by using either reclaimed or locally sourced. I can get walnut sometimes from tree cutters around here.

[@johnlemus7921]

@@timsway Very nice.

[@bigweld4328]

LOVE THIS!!!!

[@pashvonderc381]

👌👌,, loving it from Munich

[@IceDragon978]

I like this idea. I'm thinking about making it, and making it magnetic so it's road trip safe(r).

[@timsway]

yea. that would be fun. you could also make the 1/8" lines higher than the 1" squares and/or drill holes in to the board for the pieces to recess. between that and magnets, you could play on a roller coaster!

[@IceDragon978]

@@timsway Ooh good idea, I hadn't thought about making it three dimensional. Hey, you have a pretty creative mind, have you ever considered being a maker? ;)

[@DanCarlyon1]

Thanks Tim over here in Australia we didn't have Black Friday and cyber Monday until now, with Christmas next month it is just absolute craziness I can't believe the lengths people will go to for gift. What'll they think of next? I'm with you, BOYCOTT BLACK FRIDAY!

[@timsway]

America is great at spreading its ideas worldwide - good ideas AND bad ideas.

[@HeatherWrightArt]

Beautiful! I have made two chess boards on my channel - HeatherWrightArt - (acrylic pouring and resin with a wood base and sides) that turned out really cool but I absolutely LOVE working with wood so I am definitely gonna have to try this! Great idea, easily looks doable even though I don't have a planer or CNC machine, thanks!

[@jrand2631]

I'm 100% with you on this - #boycottblackfriday !..... Besides, I can't afford to go out and buy a lot of useless s*** anyway! 😁 - and as usual, great job Sir! 👍

[@timsway]

ha! neither can I. Everyone has that weird uncle that gives everyone gifts made from wood. I guess I turned in to him! lol! When I was a kid I didn't fully appreciate it but as an adult I totally get it. I'd rather play the long game than get the instant, valueless adoration that accompanies the trendy cr@p purchase :)

[@jrand2631]

@@timsway Amen to that! :)

[@juliansuarez3849]

Disco stu!! 🤣🤣

[@timsway]

Disco Stu doesn't advertise!

[@FredMcIntyre]

👍🏻👊🏻

[@Wordsnwood]

I guess i'm new enough here that I need an explanation: "Disco Stu" ??

[@timsway]

"Disco Stu doesn't advertise." - the Simpsons

[@jeffharris727]

It was supposed to say ‘Disco Stud’, but he ran out of room.