3 LEVELS of Cornhole Boards -DIY to PRO Build

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cornhole boards are a super fun

easy summer project and i've built

thousands of them

so i thought why not bring the people

three levels

let's go i'm jordan i'm gonna be

building the basic cornhole set

uh all you need is half inch plywood

some two by fours and

what are those bolts called carriage

bolts yeah let's get it

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got all my pieces cut it and then off

camera i went ahead and sanded them down

it's a lot easier to sand them when

they're all separate so now we're going

to assemble the base what we're going to

do is basically just a simple butt joint

make a nice frame it'll be like that

will go on top of it legs will do a

little more to the legs but you'll see

what we do there

let's do it

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we got framed yeah

so now we've got to talk work legs work

paint it throw bags

let's do it

so you're probably thinking whoa jordan

what the heck this is beginner bill why

are you using the tracks on a 5 000

table saw well you can buy these at any

of your local box stores already cut

down if you don't have access to the

tools

so relax people of the internet they're

gonna be like really beginning you need

gonna attach the top just kind of face

screw it down quick and dirty

um there's different ways you can do it

you can probably glue it and brad nail

it but

i'll just probably put a screw like one

in here one in the middle

in the end same thing just around and

then the reason i'm doing putting this

on first it's gonna be easier to cut

the circle and the plywood because it's

gonna be elevated that way

i don't have to like hang it out here

it's going to give me a nice sturdy work

surface

we'll do that attach the legs paint it

and yeah

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what's going on we got a hole

so much dust anyways

got a hole we're gonna make the legs now

we gotta nick off some of this because

i don't work like that you know

voila we got a cornhole board so now all

i gotta do is just paint it

um a little sanding touch up work there

and then we'll be good to go

so you'll see this at the end of the

video let's check on what sam's doing

for the intermediate project we're going

to take the same materials that jordan

used and just step it up a little bit

with some of the techniques we're going

to plane and joint those boards first

then we're going to do a couple little

joinery techniques just to clean things

up a little bit

and before you know we'll have a corner

on board so

for my project i'm going to be using the

plan that john

and brad made god it must have been like

three years ago now brad

and john hung out and they made this

they also made oh

nipsey come on man i'm filming anyway

john

went down to brad's house and they made

cornhole and ladder golf there's some

videos they're really weird they're

really old i recommend you go watch them

and see how cringy they are

they're fun but we have the plan from

that i'm just going to do the exact same

thing as that because it's a great

intermediate project so the first step

we need some two by fours right there

all right let's cut some wood

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so the next step in this process is we

have to put a rabbet or cut

the corner off of the pieces so to do

that we need that depth of that rabbet

to be the exact thickness of the plywood

that we're going to use for the top

here's a cut off of that piece it may

actually be the piece i used

it's theoretically half inch but

sometimes plywood's like

you know it might be like 21 30 seconds

or like

something weird so i always like to just

hold the piece up next to it and then

you know while the while the saw's off

completely

you can run it up next to it and just

make sure that you're perfectly in line

with that before you go ahead and start

your cut

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just

all right as you just saw we did some

mitering we did some awesome stuff

so i did a little dry fit off camera

with this strap clamp these things are

great for this kind of stuff just to

hold everything together

and uh let's see where you're at

it's basically just a ratchet strap so

as you can see

i'm pretty happy with my miters there

they look nice and tight now we're going

to glue them together and then we're

going to put

some screws in plans i believe call for

a two and a half

so we'll find some two and a half screws

and put those in i laid out little marks

on the sides already

for where i'm going to pre-drill them

i'll pre-drill everything now take it

apart

put glue on it put it back together and

i'll screw it together

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okay so we've screwed together the

rectangular bit

and uh just saw me do the round overs

for the feet so

they can fold i just laid out the marks

to cut off the

angle for the legs it says where you can

plan how to do it i don't know what the

angle is but it gives you kind of a

better way in my opinion

to set that angle so if you guys want to

make this plan make sure you're down in

the description checking out the plans

anyway let's cut these down and then all

that's left is to put the panel in

cut the hole in the panel we're going to

use a big hole saw bit for that so that

should be fun

and then i think we're going to paint

some stuff on it spice it up a little as

fast

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that's not right how do i screw this up

don't answer that

i thought the angle looked a little

steep remember i said that looks really

steep and you're like that's what the

plan

goes it is what the plan says

is it 12 inches from the top now

where is it

under oh damn it i didn't do it exactly

as the princess it's ten and a quarter

from the center of the hole

not both measurements aren't from the

end is it salvageable or did i think it

completely

it completely this is why we need

reading lessons

we could just lie and say it's a feature

that that way they dig in when the

bags hit it the remember kids the best

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back to these uh slightly above

awesome cornhole boards let's go

what are you doing over there changing

the blade

because it's time my friends

to make the panel the top part so

put a plywood blade back in the table

saw and then we'll cut down the channel

and get it

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damn we have to drill a hole in it now

i feel like you need a driver's license

to use this thing

it just has so much fun oh my god almost

died

all right

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so

the last thing to do to wrap this thing

up is add your favorite sports team logo

all right so for my board we're gonna do

what's absolutely necessary to be called

a professional right

excessive joinery incredibly over used

materials

um a bunch of obscenities and it's gonna

go ah

let's go hola amigos enemy guts

this is my new jointer there she is so

because we're going pro level on my

build we're going to be using two by

tens i always find it comical because

absolutely nothing about what i do is

pro the whole point of the series is

show

three variations of the same project to

three different levels but everyone gets

all fussed up with the name pro

so as much as i hate and despise using

pine

in any regard for anything it's the

right thing to use for this project so

that's what we're going to use

i got two by tens so i can get a four

inch apron around the entire outside of

my board um and that'll be in a plan

there's plans available for everything

platinum pan now listen i just bought

this joiner on craigslist and it didn't

have the guard

we're getting it but i still need to

join things don't run your jointer

without a guard

do as i say not as i do let's go

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as i stated earlier we are going to use

an incredibly unnecessary joint

the box joint why you ask why the hell

not people that's why

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all right so i am going to glue up

my bottom we're doing an inset panel i'm

going to cut that panel with a router

after get it together come together

if you're wondering why i'm using a box

joint it's cause a king cane can

it's stronger but john lighter joints

force the fuse

so we're out of clamps are only a little

bit squirrely i'm gonna sand these up

really fast

and then we're going to route our panel

groove chisel them out and then i'm

bringing in the big guns to help with my

top

because we're getting pretty wild with

this concept that i have

and by big guns i mean the cnc cowboy

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howdy

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so we're down yonder in the cnc shop i

got the cnc cowboy on this

like i said we're going over the top

with unnecessary

methods materials and all kinds of stuff

for this cornhole board

miss piggy take it away

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i would embed the leds first

um but because we don't have them we're

going to go ahead and add the colored

parts

to the logo and then we'll do the cn

the damn leds when they come in

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making america it's both super sad

it got really hot really fast all right

so i went out and found a bunch of very

expensive leds that run on batteries you

would think that that would be something

that the world would have much more of

so we're now

going to get these embedded into all the

grooves we put in here and then pour

some

with the opaque white resin around them

so

they'll they'll come to life with

awesomeness so we're gonna feed these in

there

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great success so

what i'm going for here is i just want

this we just need a barrier and a wall

so we're using tyvek tape i'm just

sitting on something for now

i can come back and then tape off the

rest

to keep a nice dam in there it's a

little squirrely

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but not the squirreliest and then i'll

be able to flip it over and work on

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so we let the epoxy dry overnight

everything's looking pretty solid it's

not

soft so we're gonna try to get this

metal off in some clean way

make sure my stupid ass doesn't slice

through this

cord here

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that went so much better

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so

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all right to mount the legs this is a

system i've used for a long time

i've got an oversized leg here i went

and found center

and i drilled an inch and a half down so

it was i made it rounded the top as you

just watched

i line it up at the bottom and this is

about a one inch spacer from the top

that'll give me clearance and then mark

it

drill my hole swing perfectly now

without hitting into anything

now to get my height

i use this trick paint can puts me right

about 12 inch mark

to the back of the board which is right

here

which is exactly what we want i then

take

the bolt hanging out over the edge of

the table then i can just mark it there

take it off and match the rest it should

all be perfect to that

all right we're gonna hit the lettering

with some spray and then we'll roll the

outsides this should uh hold down the

tape and give us nice crisp lines

as well as give us a barrier to roll up

against and then we'll get these boards

done

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and by the power invested in me let us

spray

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let's see how they work i'll give you

the honors

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hi so this turned out awesome i

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