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well, there it is, my new custom board.

Much effort. So so results. :o Was trying hard to get a 1940's old school game worn look.

Weirdwolf spent hours on my cover design, only to have the printer totally blow it. Weirdwolf's grass got turned into one solid dark green mass by the printer. It was supposed to be a lighter olive green with grass texture and patches of darker and lighter color grass, but the printer blew it. The printer, using low quality equipment, read Weirdwolf's artwork poorly, and instead of spitting out a grass texture and design, it just merged everything and out came that color that you see. YUK.

The staining went easier than I thought it wood (pun intended). I had the frame made out of high end Cherry Oak and that paid off. Hard to see in the photos, but up close you can see the quality of the wood and staining.

Goal Posts and Flags were a bear, but after a lot of experimentation I finally figured out how to make those.

Fun journey.

I may yet get a new field cover some time down the road.

[5-13 Studios]

nice looking board, how does it run? is the frame cherry, oak, red oak? i have never heard of cherry oak.

Well, thats the good news. Although I am bummed out that Weirdwolf's incredible field artwork did not come out at all, the field runs absolutely fantastic. It is smooth, corner to corner, like a sheet of glass. Extremely smooth and consistent. 22 x 44.

The field construction was done by Charles Lane. A local printer near him did the printing. Charles does not want to mass produce boards. He only wants to make a couple a year. But, IMHO, the Lane boards are the smoothest, best running, most consistent boards out there. That's not my opinion, thats the consensus of all the hall of famers down here in South Carolina. I asked them all before I started my journey, who I should go to, and they practically all said Charles Lane.

I dont know what his trick is, but they come out great, performance wise.

He also made Beenutt's Dixie League board and that is how I found out about him. I did not like the plywood that he used on the Dixie league board, so I asked him to use a higher grade of wood on my project. He said he bought, "Cherry Oak", at least that is what I thought he said.

All I can say is the wood is beautiful and it really took the Red Mahogany Minwax stain and the Polyurethane well. My camera stinks, but near the board you can see all the wood grain details.

Cherry-bark oak, or swamp red oak, a valuable timber tree also used as an ornamental, is a variety of the southern red oak. It is a larger tree, up to 36 m, with more uniform, 5- to 11-lobed leaves, often 23 cm long. The gray-brown to black scaly bark resembles that of black cherry.

Chris, I thought you did that on purpose! It looks as if REAL chalk were used.

[jeff]

What are the board dimensions ?

Originally Posted by JIMBO

Chris, I thought you did that on purpose! It looks as if REAL chalk were used.

Yes, Jimbo: The chalk effect was done on purpose by Weirdwolf. What is missing is all the grass texture work he did to make it look grassy and all the color detail that he did. It is supposed to be an olive green, not that black green that you see. I wish I could upload his original artwork, but my file that he sent me, is too big. Perhaps Weirdwolf can post a smaller pic that will fit of what it was supposed to look like.