{"id":137,"date":"2019-10-17T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2024-12-30T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:45:20","slug":"making-marble-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Making Marble Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191013_104504-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138\" width=\"343\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191013_104504-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191013_104504-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191013_104504-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><figcaption>Hand Made Marble Game Board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Making a marble game board isn&#8217;t difficult, but it does take some skill and accuracy. The hardest part is laying out the pattern and routing the holes. There are 88 holes in a typical 4 player marble board. I&#8217;ve seen 6 player variations, but those are harder to make unless you have a template. I made a few of these recently to see how they sell. I&#8217;m hoping to get $60 each. I think that is fair considering the time and material that goes into making one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the game board pictured above you will notice a decorative gold vinyl decal in the center. It has a self-adhesive backing and was applied before the clear coat. Next time I will try to make the decal myself with a laser printer. There are videos on YouTube showing how to do that. Of course the color will be black, unless I find a color laser printer somewhere. My favorite part is sanding and applying the finish. There is something satisfying about taking a rough piece of wood and making something beautiful out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making a marble game board isn&#8217;t difficult, but it does take some skill and accuracy. The hardest part is laying out the pattern and routing the holes. There are 88 holes in a typical 4 player marble board. I&#8217;ve seen 6 player variations, but those are harder to make unless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}