My dad and I used to play this game for hours back in the day. I recently came across our old board but, as will happen over time, some of the pieces had gone missing. I could have just gone online and ordered a new set, but what’s the point of a laser if you’re not going to use it to solve problems?
In hindsight, I might have been better off making one of the two sets of pieces with the walnut for better contrast (and I probably will make another one eventually that does just that) but I think it came out really nice.
Fun fact: I spent way more time than I want to admit making sure the grain on all of those pieces was oriented the same way for all of the layers. Totally worth it.
No, but that’s a thought for a follow-up. The pieces are made of a 3 layer stack of one solid triangle sandwiched between two hollow border triangles. The surface of the board is two layers, with the grid section removed from the top layer to allow the game pieces to fit in. The grid made for an excellent jig to align everything for glue-up.
I guess someone could just align them whichever way they picked them up with no consideration of grain, but honestly I don’t need that sort of negativity in my life.