Paint Cornhole Game Boards

[Mike Cozad]

I have been asked to build a few cornhole sets and am curious if anyone can give me any help with selecting gloss paints to use. I built one set for a friend and simply used RustOleum Painters Touch waterbased gloss paints. Well she told 2 friends and so on and so on, and now the colors I have been asked to paint them in are not available in that brand of paint.

Can I use a clear gloss of this brand over, say, a Behr exterior paint since they are both acrylic latex. It would make it easy to have the Behr mixed to the color I need it.

Thanks for any advice.

Mike

[David Christopher]

why not just go to a paint store and get them to mix you up some lacquer in the color that you want

brush it on, ( it dries quick ) put a coat of wax on it. youre done

[Scott Soucek]

I have now built 4 cornhole games. Like yourself, I built one, and the word spread.

Two of them have been two-toned wood stain with a oil based semi-gloss polyurethane finish.

One had Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber from "Veggie Tales" painted on them with latex artist paint, then covered with the same minwax semi-gloss polyurethane.

The final one was just coated with satin lacquer instead of the minwax poly. (Just so I could use up some older stuff that was laying around)

So far, they all seem to be fairing well under the constant barrage of corn bags tossed onto them.

I used the semi-gloss and satin finish because if you make it too glossy, the bags slide off too easily.

[Jim Kilburg]

I also tried gloss paint once and couldn't keep the bags on the board. Jim

[Mike Cozad]

Thanks for the feedback. I just finished another set. This one was more involved, Michigan on one and Ohio State on the other. :confused: I have not actually played on a set I have built so I did not even think of the gloss paint being too slick. I will have to solicit some feedback on the sets I have built to see if they are a problem.

Started another set tonight and they will be gloss too as I need to use up the paint I gave already purchased.... Off topic a bit, do you include the bags when you build a set? Currently I do, we make them out of duck cloth and feed corn in coordinating colors....

Mike

[Andrew Gibson]

It is my understanding is that the official riles call for gloss paint.... lets see if I have a bookmark... nope no bookmark to the rules.
I made a pair the week before halloween for a friend but she did the painting and i have not used them sense they were painted.

[Graham Wintersgill]

http://www.playcornhole.org/rules.shtml

6. The Cornhole / Corn Toss play surface shall be finish sanded to a very smooth texture and there shall not be any blemishes in the wood surface that might disrupt or distort play.

7. The Cornhole / Corn Toss play surface shall be painted with a high gloss latex paint resulting in a surface that allows corn bags to slide but is not so slippery that it allows the bags to slide back down the platform. The preferable color is white, but any easy to see color is acceptable for tournament play.

[Gordon Eyre]

http://www.playcornhole.org/rules.shtml

6. The Cornhole / Corn Toss play surface shall be finish sanded to a very smooth texture and there shall not be any blemishes in the wood surface that might disrupt or distort play.

7. The Cornhole / Corn Toss play surface shall be painted with a high gloss latex paint resulting in a surface that allows corn bags to slide but is not so slippery that it allows the bags to slide back down the platform. The preferable color is white, but any easy to see color is acceptable for tournament play.

Who would have thought (or "who wuda thunk") that a corn hole toss would have official rules and a league for the various teams? :)