Leg braces for your cornhole boards
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ย. 2024
- Adding a leg brace to your cornhole boards can serve a few purposes, but a strong leg brace is important no batter the function you're hoping to achieve. While screws can wiggle loose, and glue can help add strength, a lap joint can take it to the next level, while adding a wonderful aesthetic element.
In this video I add leg braces to my legs using a dado stack, and then show how I center them in the holes of my boards when they're closed. I then show how a simple assembly jig creates a nice square joint for improved leg performance.
Ok that’s much easier than my method. Thanks man!
Oh yeah? What path were you taking on this? Always stoked to hear other ideas
@@cornholecollective7116 I just started doing legs like this recently. I ended up building a huge table saw sled with removable inserts for the different saw blades shoutout to @kingsfinewoodworking. I needed one anyway, and it’s absolutely awesome. Finding the center was a bit challenging, but stuff lined up OK. My brace was cut right to size and I didn’t have a jig to keep them square during assembly. My builds are getting to be so much faster now that I’m taking the time to create jigs for repeatable easily re-produced cuts. I really appreciate the collective and all you guys are doing to help everyone along.
Would you have a pic of your leg assembly jig you could share?
Are you in the collective? I can tag you in a post
It’s nothing special. I have two outside rails just a bit more narrow than my brace. I then did a dado in them to allow the brace to set in the notches. This ensures the brace overhangs both legs. Then I gave inner rails (two on each side in a line, but with a gap wide enough for the brace to set in between. All of these rails keep my legs square to the brace, at a width about 1/8 to 3/16 more narrow than the insides of my frames so my legs fit in there with ease, then I use a flush trim bit to trim my braces to perfection making me appear to be a greater craftsman than I actually am. Hope that helps
@@cornholecollective7116 Yes, I am in the Collective on FB.
Want to shoot me (Hunter a DM) and then I’ll tag you 🤙
does the 3/4 plywood for the legs and frame meet the standard for competition lever boards ?
I’ve not seen any specific criteria for legs but I would say yes. With layers of ply being glued in alternating directions for each layer, you’re really eliminating the opportunity for the wood to simply crack and break at an unknown weak spot. Further stepping that ply up to Baltic and you’re going to have an incredibly strong leg. Honestly if I were in a situation where somehow my safety was laid in the hands of the strength of wood, and my two choices were solid pine or Baltic birch, I would go with Baltic birch. That all being said there are also some absolutely horrendous plywoods out there that I would never consider for the task. I wish I had a better answer for you, but that’s my personal perspective on legs
How far down did you drill Hole for carriage bolt
Dude. Might be worthy of a sticker
😂 haha thanks! I love stickers
Those are some pretty legs,
Thank you so much! I love the aesthetic of this style too 👌
@Cornhole Collective I’m interested in a set of boards but I don’t have Instagram/Facebook to contact you. If you can please let me know of another way to get in contact with you.
Hunter and I (Scott) aren’t currently taking new board orders. I suggest finding an amazing builder near you in our interactive builder locator map: cornholecollective.com/map
What kind and size ply are you using for the legs and frame?
In this video (with Hunter aka burly bags) He’s using 3/4” BB/B Baltic birch 5x5 sheets