Narayan Nayar
08-08-2008, 12:10 AM
So a friend came over tonight with a request to help him make some "corner blocks" (that's what I call them) for a board game of sorts that he's making for his son.
Here's a quick Sketchup model of the block:
http://www.narayannayar.com/images/cornerblock.jpg
Like I said, these blocks will sit on the corners of a board-game like piece. The only two functional requirements are to hide a really bad mitering job on angled aluminum (really sharp corners, a gap of about 1/8" at all the miters :)--not my work!), and to raise the board off the ground so that the screws used to affix the aluminum don't scratch a table.
I did tell him that it'd be easier just to get rid of the aluminum and make a wooden frame, but he wanted to keep the aluminum. Anyway, I came up with about 10 different ways to make this and settled on one, but I thought it would be fun to see how you would do it. I won't tell how how I ended up doing it. I'm sure everyone can also come up with 10 different ways to do it: limit yourself to posting one way--the best, safest, and most efficient way you can come up with. The wood I'm working with is maple.
You need four of them and as you can tell from the drawing, they're not very large. Attached is the sketchup file if that helps you illustrate what you'd do. Any tools--hand or powered--are fair game, except for CNC :). Multiple pieces are fine. Bonus points if you can roundover the edges too (I didn't do that in the sketchup drawing).
Here's a quick Sketchup model of the block:
http://www.narayannayar.com/images/cornerblock.jpg
Like I said, these blocks will sit on the corners of a board-game like piece. The only two functional requirements are to hide a really bad mitering job on angled aluminum (really sharp corners, a gap of about 1/8" at all the miters :)--not my work!), and to raise the board off the ground so that the screws used to affix the aluminum don't scratch a table.
I did tell him that it'd be easier just to get rid of the aluminum and make a wooden frame, but he wanted to keep the aluminum. Anyway, I came up with about 10 different ways to make this and settled on one, but I thought it would be fun to see how you would do it. I won't tell how how I ended up doing it. I'm sure everyone can also come up with 10 different ways to do it: limit yourself to posting one way--the best, safest, and most efficient way you can come up with. The wood I'm working with is maple.
You need four of them and as you can tell from the drawing, they're not very large. Attached is the sketchup file if that helps you illustrate what you'd do. Any tools--hand or powered--are fair game, except for CNC :). Multiple pieces are fine. Bonus points if you can roundover the edges too (I didn't do that in the sketchup drawing).