Crib board holes

[rnicolson (Ryan Nicolson)]

I have actually posted about some of the ones I have made before using Carbide Create. I use the drill tool path with 1/8 inch HSS drill bits. I run the router at the lowest RPM and in most cases have no issue.

Hockey rink cribbage board making use of the new array feature

I had been putting off designing new cribbage boards because I did not want to manually place 360+ holes or go back to using Inkscape to set them up with the tools available there. While it was possible I found ti was a lot of trial and error. When the new array feature got announced I finally got off my butt and decided to get to work. The first thing I did was import an SVG of a scale NHL hockey rink. I played around with making the track run along the inside of the rink to make the details b…

I use the linear array to make all my holes in a line and the circle array in Carbide Create to make the paths that have to go around a corner. The link above describes how I went about it for both.