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That looks really good.

I added a screw to the inside bottom on each of mine. Then I took a piece of paracord, cut it the proper distance for setup, and put a loop in each end. When we set them up, we hook the paracord to the screws and stretch it out instead of just eye balling it. I put two screw on the underside of one of them and wrap the paracord around the screws when not in use.

I did the same thing for our horseshoes set.

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Those look so good!

I had plans to make mine super fancy, got anxious and just wanted to play so I just coated them. Might need to make another fancy set so I can use some of my fancy ,machines to do more than cut the hole! I did add some sound deadner pad to the underside. Not sure if it actually helped much though.

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Dude, those are amazing!!! Love the colors.Great Job.

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Thank you for the praises. Makes me feel all happy and stuff. Big win for me because historically I have been TERRIBLE at working with wood.

I made several mistakes on these ones and if I make more I will do the following.

  • Use the laser to cut a little deeper. It helped prevent the dye from seeping through into the next strip.
  • If and when the dye does seep into the wrong areas. I will not sand at ALL. Instead use fire to hide it. That worked better anyway. When I did sand it got ugly fast.
  • For the first coat of polycrylic use a sprayer or aerosol can. When I brushed the first layer it spread the red dye into the white/natural stripes. Looked terrible. More fire helped.
  • I used pocket holes on these ones. But If I were to do it again I would do the trick where you use a chisel to peel back the top layer of the wood then sink a screw and glue the top layer back down.

That is a brilliant idea. Thanks, Iā€™m gonna copy that.

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Thanks, For the colors I used the red and blue from these wood dyes. It I used about 5 layers of the red (overkill) and only one layer for the blue. For one of them the white stars looked a little too dark so I used a thin layer of white wash on it. Then sealed the whole thing in Polycrilic.

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Those are awesome! Good job.