The five boards are four full sized boards and one mini. Three of the full sized game board surfaces are being made out of the 30 year old AT&T Phone room wood. Its really exciting to see the awesome wood that is hiding below the glue and old wood come out with a little hard work and sanding! These will be our first boards that are 3/4" thick and it will be really cool to see the bottoms reflect the old phone system room look when the top is finished.
The other game board is a contractor toss back that has a stain spill on it. This board will be the first full sized POPBox Hockey painted board. We have not made on yet, so its about time to get one produced. Should be pretty straight forward just switching in paint for the stain and reversing the order of a couple steps (the lines need to go on last for painted models).
We are taking pictures of the entire process for all five of these boards to show what excellent games can still be made from rough looking, very old, used wood AND to give you a process look at the hard work that we do put in making each and every one of our POPBox Hockey boards. The pictures will be posted on the journals blog site (to get there go to http://http://www.popboxhockey.com/ and click on the "journals" link at the top of the page) under new journals for these five boards. The journals will be titled "AT&T POPBox Hockey Boards 1 - 3, Painted FS Board 1, and Painted Mini Board 1 until the receive their serial numbers (remember boards are not "initiated" until they receive their serial numbers and they are not given these until the sides are stained, the game board is stained and we determine they are good enough quality to release). So hop on over and check them out!
We are going to post some pic's here of the POPBox Hockey shop in its current state / setup. You'll see three of the boards laying about just after first round sanding was complete. The shop still needs to get all the extra stuff cleared out (anybody need a desk or two? :^>), plastic hung to protect storage items from dust, and the planer fix completed. Thought since this is our first big run (and likely will determine how we make boards down the road) it be fun to take a picture of the shop as we just start out. Check em out >>
