Cornhole

During the Christmas break, I spent some of my time over at the shop.  Gave me a chance to do some cleaning so I could make a new mess.   Well, it didn't take me long to find a new project.  I decided to paint up some cornhole boards.   This is the third set that I have painted.  They are fun to work with and you can get as creative as you want.  

For this one, I decided to go with Royal Red and Navy Blue and alternate the colors.  I found a cool Ford Motor Co. image that I used as a template to stencil.  This was a hard one as the stencil had a lot of detail that had to be hand cut.   I am getting pretty decent with using an Exacto knife.  For the stencil work, I brought both the boards home and finished working on them on the dining room table. 

These are pictures of the other two I have done.  I have given both of them away.  One was donated to our office and the other I gave to a friend.  I already have a few ideas on some new designs that I want to try.

Needed our own

I mentioned that I had painted up the Cornhole game for the office. Had so much fun painting and playing that I had Candy order one for us.  We found them online at Wal-Mart on sale for $88.00 and free shipping.   With tax, it came out to $94.00.   It would take me all day to build one, probably cost me more in materials and time.

I headed over to the shop this morning to begin working on the game.  I was pleasantly surprised when I pulled the boards our of the box.  The one we ordered turned out to be a better model than the one the office ordered.   This one used better materials, was better constructed and was already sanded and ready for paint.

I opted for a fairly simple paint design and again used colors that I had on hand.  I was able to get two coats of urethane on and will apply another coat tomorrow.   I am sure we will be using these on the Fourth.

Advertising

Our company picnic is this week.  So we bought a cornhole game from Wal-Mart for one of the activities.  I didn't see what we had ordered and offered to see if I could paint the logo on it.

I took it to the shop and pulled it out of the box.   Seems it comes unfinished so that you can do what you want with it.   This turned out to be a little more than I had planned for.




Luckily I had paint and what I needed so I went to town.   It's not a great match too our company colors, but I think this will work just fine.  I filled any holes with wood putty, then sanded the surface smooth, being sure to remove any excess putty.  Then it was just a matter of getting three coats of blue paint on.   I then taped off for the white line and then cut out the lettering for the company name.

Once the white dried, I then applied two coats of urethane, letting it dry before each coat.  I'll check on it tomorrow and see if it needs one more coat.

A couple weeks ago I finished my first XTIVIA Stearman.  It's in our office now in our cabinet of XTIVIA souvenirs.  I need to make a few more, I have another that is about done but just haven't had any time to focus on it.