Custom Walnut with Bloodwood Inlay Two Person Cribbage Board

Client's comments:

Dave, You are awesome! The cribbage board is absolutely wonderful! Thank you again for your excellent work. It's everything I wanted and more. Katie

This two person box style custom cribbage board is being made as a fifth wedding anniversary present for the wife to give to the husband.

It is being made out of dark walnut with a strip of bloodwood added.  It is around 7 inches wide and 17 3/4 inches long.  The bottom portion will provide storage for the cards and set of custom metal pegs.

Top view of this board

Inside storage slots for cards and pegs.

Custom lasering completed

Custom hinges

Two person track drilled

Slots for cards and custom pegs cut out

Clean up is done...now to drill the holes and the slots on the bottom board.

Glue up of walnut and bloodwood strip.

Top of box with two person track.

Layout of inside of the box

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For more information about ordering your own custom board go to: http://www.splinterswoodworks.com/

Custom Walnut Rocking Chair Update

 The following photos were recently received of this previous project. This rocker has seen continuously used since it was created and will be loved forever. 

If anyone is interested I am taking orders to create more of these custom creations.  Lets talk......You name the wood.......and I will take it from there........You will love it.......................

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For more information about ordering your own custom board go to: http://www.splinterswoodworks.com/

Custom Cribbage Board Maple/w/ bloodwood and steel

This order is a present for the clients dad who just retired from a job as a metalworker.  It will be a four person board with special inlays.

The main board will be made out of hard maple and have a 3/4 strip of blood wood run down the long ways with a 3/4 inch strip of steel going across the width.

This is the drawing I came up with using CorelDraw and the clients preferences.

This is the steel strip which the client made to be inlayed into the board.

My client wanted this to be a special board and asked to combine wood and metal into this board design.  They designed and created the metal strip for me to be inlayed into the board.

This was the first layout with the bloodwood, steel inlay strip and track layout...

Now to drill the holes and layout the dado's for the inlays.

The dado's have been cut and  the strip put in place.

Front of finished custom cribbage board

Back of custom cribbage board

Lasered custom logo

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For more information about ordering your own custom board go to: http://www.splinterswoodworks.com/

Custom Walnut with a strip of bloodwood cribbage board

Here is another custom Cribbage Board that is on its way to Texas. 
It is 6 inches wide and 18 inches long. Created out of Walnut with a bloodwood strip inlayed in the top.

The first photo shows the strip being glued in.

Here is the finished board top

This board was created with a box style and storage for the decks of cards and the custom metal pegs.
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For more information about ordering your own custom board go to: http://www.splinterswoodworks.com/

Scott Morrison inspired Custom Rocking Chair continues...Part 12...........

Here is an accessory to go with the rocking chair.   The stool is finished and the first finish coat has been applied.  A little steelwooling and several coats of poly/wax finish and it will be ready to use.   Rocking chair is almost ready for the first coat of oil finish. 

When chatting with the designer, he said a stool is mandatory when it will be used for rocking with a little one.

It allows the rockee to raise their legs a bit and not have to work so hard rocking. This chair is so comfy they may never get out of it.

It is around 16 inches wide, 8 inches deep and 7 inches tall and made out of the same walnut as the chair. Th legs are made from a piece of Shedua that I had around the shop.  The plugs are the same bloodwood as those in the chair.

The legs have a slight bevel to give a nice classy look to the stool.

We are still fine sanding everything and hope to have a finished photo to display soon.

Here is the stool top during some wet sanding  showing the wood color and grain contrast.....



Stay tuned for more updates soon......:-)

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For more information about ordering your own custom board go to:
http://www.splinterswoodworks.com/

Lady Bug Box Style Cribbage board...UPDATE.

Here we are...the Lady Bug has emerged in all its glory...















We are one step closer.






The track has been drilled and now the Lady Bug will be lasered on the top.







The inside pockets for the cards and pegs have been drilled out.


This is being created as a just because present for a client. It is being made out of Bloodwood(named for the color only to give us the red body of a Lady Bug.

The lady bug will be lasered into the wood and the spots will be darkened to give the impression of being black. Selecting the boards for glue-up went well. here it is before applying the glue and clamps.




This is a photo of what the Lady bug will look like. The track will run on both sides and across the right end of board.
I know it may be hard to imagine now, but I think it will come out very cool.








Here the glue and clamps have been applied. This wood comes in smaller sizes I had to glue boards up to make the size i needed.

The clamps have come off, one of these will be the top of the box and the other will be the bottom.

For more information about ordering your own custom board go to:
http://www.splinterswoodworks.com/