Budget Friendly Cornhole Boards That RIVAL Premium Quality

to find out they're over $500 not including the bags well I built my own premium cornhole boards

complete with vinyl wraps and custom bags for half the price check out this video to see how I did it

starting out I cut my board at slightly over 48 inches wide to make it more manageable for

the table saw regulation cornhole boards are 24 inches so with my fence set there

I cut out my first top then I ran the second board through to clean up the

cut from the circular saw to make my second top bringing my fence in to three and a half

inches I use the rest of the plywood to rip out the boards that I'm going to use for my

frame once I have those all ripped out I cut them down to the appropriate lengths

now this is completely unnecessary I decided to be a little fancy with this build and use box joints

so I threw together this little jig out of some scrap wood and a fiberboard I had laying around

that worked pretty well

check that out nice tight fitting box joint

but like I said completely unnecessary and I probably won't use it in the future

unless requested because it added a little bit of time to the build

in reality all you need is some butt joints with pocket hole screws quality control decided

to stop by while I was sanding and he's really impressed with my new 3M extract sander as am

I check the link in the description for this and other tools nice now I can speed this up

and he's back

oh hey look that's nice oh I see how it is guess I'll just have to go get my own after quenching

my thirst letting the sun go down and putting quality control to bed I came out and started

assembling the frames some of these box joints take a little bit more encouragement than others

and some of them slide right into place when I find one that needs a little extra encouragement

I get the motivation stick out after getting all of my joints connected I use my 90 degree clamps

to make sure everything dries up Square repeat the process and my frames are done

the center of the hole is supposed to be nine inches from the top and centered

width wise at about 12 inches I go ahead and mark these up before doing my round

overs because it's easier to measure off of a square edge than it is a rounded one

I round over both sides of the tops and the bottom of the frames then using my Kreg pocket hole jig I

make pocket holes to attach the frames to the tops using my God given glue spreader I apply

some glue then place the frame where it goes on the board and attach it with pocket hole screws

it time to saw out some holes now this hole saw is scary it's six inches it's heavy make sure

you get one with the Locking pins otherwise it will spin off and fly across your shop

now did I say it was scary this thing tried to break my wrist a couple of times but I got it done

then I rounded over the edges of the hole flipped over the board and rounded over the edges of the

bottom side of the hole let's just take a moment and admire that beautiful hole that is nice I'll

repeat the process for the other board and now I have a set on to building the legs I used a can

I had laying around to mark the circumference then use my jigsaw to cut close to the line

and then my sander to get it even closer to the line once I was happy with that I clamped

all the legs together and used my sander to line everything up and make it nice and pretty and neat

I went ahead and drilled the hole that the bolt is going to go through and I did the same thing

on the frames moving to my table saw and using the dado blade I carved out the spot on the legs

where the crossbar is going to go it's pretty nice little fit with one final cut I bring the

legs down to the perfect length to have the top of the cornhole board sitting at 12 inches

time to install the legs and glue the crossbar into place while quality control takes a play

break in the background once that glue is dried I'll bring in my sander and clean up the edges

nice and smooth and then more sanding man I wish I had a Craig

to make this go quicker you know what I do have a Lenard, Lenard get in here,

that's right if you want to make your sanding go faster just clone yourself it's easy

once all the sanding was done I wiped it down with a damp cloth and let it dry

came back to apply the coat of polycrylic then lightly sanded it wiped it down and

applied another coat and did it again for a total of three coats lining up the vinyl

wraps I got from cornholeboards.us I create a little hinge in the middle pull the vinyl

back away from the backing to create a little flap cut the backing off then take that flap

and place it on the cornhole board I'll run my squeegee over it to get it to stick

then I can remove my hinge roll the vinyl wrap back up and peel the backing off from this side

now it's just a matter of working the vinyl down this was the first time that I have done

this so it took me a little bit to get the hang of it but it turned out pretty dang good

taking my knife I cut out the hole

and then start to trim the edges oh that is so satisfying

nice, with the wrap installed I go over it with the heat gun to make sure and get that adhesive

activated wipe it down and then come back with some more polycrylic over the top to protect it

I ended up putting two coats of poly on making sure to get all of the edges nice and sealed up

off camera after the poly dried I buffed it smooth with a white

3M abrasive pad and here's the finished product

hey that wasn't even close the hole's over here if you like this video click the Subscribe button

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