hello welcome back to MF woodshop today we're going to finish this back gaming board want to see how I finish this up stay tuned we've started out with Sycamore I planed it down to a half an inch so I got a quarter inch dado stack set up in the table saw and I want no more than a quarter inch cut on this I got my digital depth finder so I can swing this over to a quarter and get it as close as I can and it's pretty important for me to have a quarter inch because that's the way I designed the overlap of my backgammon board so the very top of it is two four nine so I got my quarter inch dado blade in this in the fence I got the fence eight inch away from the right side of the blade so I'm going to make a quarter inch dado add a quarter inch depth 1/8 inch away from the edge I'm going to do it on both sides of this piece of sycamore this is going to be the frame of the board okay I feel like I have to explain why I chose the joint I picked for this box the original joint that I was going to do was to have a I'm not real sure what it's called a lock groove joint I believe and that particular joint this board here would have this cutout right here and then this board here would have the opposite cutout coming down like this after I did that joint I didn't like how the ends was going to look because of the groove for the board itself so I cut away this part of that joint and now I have a flat joint or a rabbit here so now I have a joint that comes out like that and now I need a butt joint here to come into that rabbit after I got the joint situated I put glue on the joints and put them in clamps and let that set overnight this is a little different than what I normally do I seen this technique on David patitos channel I believe cut all the way through on the long sides and then just barely cut through on the short sides after I get the cut I can hand cut the rest of the box away this way the blade don't pinch that box or that box don't close up on the blade I actually made it a lot safer and a lot easier a little bit of handwork with the handsaw separated the box nicely and now I'm mortising out for the hinges and this is about where the camera died so you didn't see the process so basically I'm irked out where the hinges went I took out as much as I could with a little router and then cleaned it all up with the chisel this self centering drill bit actually does a really good job on the hinges and then I put four screws in for now just to get everything situated I'll come back and put that middle screw in lighter once I confirmed everything closed up good took it all apart and started the finishing process now this little jig is too inset my 5/16 inch magnets that I have can't find a 5/16 inch Forstner bit so I made this little jig to stop my regular drill bit from going too deep this actually worked out real good this was just a steel collet that fit the drill bit in and I put a stop color in an epoxy did magnets in place now finish I'm using I'm spraying on 1 1/2 pound cut of shellac and I put ended up putting 5 coats of shellac on the board and let that dry for a couple days once that was dry for a couple days I put a two coats of general finished semi-gloss and then after that dried I finished it all up with paste wax I'll put all the screws in with the hand screwdriver instead of the drill this time that way I don't crack the board at this point come too far now to ruin the piece so the backgammon board is finally done I can't be more happy with this the way it turned out five coats of shellac was put on and two coats of general finished top coat semi-gloss finish to close it all up and finish it out I also have a coat of white paste wax on this as well it turned out very good it's very smooth and I just can't be more happy with this the way it turned out it closes up it has a couple magnetic catches to keep it closed and those work out pretty good simple hinges more to stin and then I got the bag of chips and dice now the chips I ordered for some reason they didn't send me enough chips to actually play the game I'm supposed to get 15 chips for each collar if I'm not mistaking and I only got 12 of each collar so I either need to order another bag or send these back and get another set I did make a chip holder and it turned out ok I wasn't real pleased with it it can fit inside my original thought was to put a couple magnets here and a couple magnets on here and just do that put the chips in close it up and then just store it all like that and then when I want to play the game just pull the chip tray out and then play the game one problem while two problems with this chip tray that I built the dice Center is just a little bit too small and because I only got 12 chips of each caller I only made the tray big enough for 12 chips so I'm gonna have to remake this and make it a little bit bigger for the dice and all 15 of each color chips so all 30 chips but for now I can naturally store the chips in this little bag that they came in cinch it up and just store it inside like that and that works just as well but I'm very pleased with the way this turned out I'll get you some close-ups of the board pay close attention to the points of the triangles and see how crisp those came out cuz I was really focusing on that when I was building this and again thanks to Dave gatun he cut out the aluminum triangles templates so I could actually cut these out with the exacto knife and it made pretty quick work of it and pretty accurate work of it and of course guide Dunlap he gave me some walnut veneer and he also gave me some pointers on how to do veneer work as well so thank you guys I couldn't have done this without you that's all I got for you today don't forget to Like share and subscribe and as always I'll see you next time you