Cribbage

Joe and I love to play cribbage together. It is one of those few games that is really fun to play with just two people. You can read about how to play it here. We are always looking for good projects to do together in the evening and decided that it would be fun to design and make our own unique cribbage board. We found this blank plaque at our local thrift store for 50 cents and Joe drew up a template for the peg holes on graph paper. He then copied the template to the bored, drilled them with the sweet drill that his parents gave him for his birthday a couple of years ago and then sanded the whole thing to get rid of any potential splinters. Joe wanted to put an old school BYU logo on it to represent how much we love our Alma Mater. I loved the logo but wasn't a big fan of the old color of blue used in it. So we decided to compromise by using the old image but with the updated navy blue coloring. I traced the logo and then free handed the peg stripes and victory panel.
 Here is the template Joe made:

Joe printed the logo and I cut it up to make it easier to trace onto the board:

Here it is with all of the free handed white:

The finished product! I used a silver sharpy to separate the peg holes into sets of 5, and then Joe sprayed the whole thing with several coats of clear varnish to keep the paint from scratching.