Cornhole Board Build

This project is possible because my great, great, great, great, great... grandparents moved to Indiana in 1847 and homesteaded 500 Acres.  I am now the 7th generate to grow up working on this farm and one of the perks to that is access to woods that run along the fields.  Fortunately for me, the farm already has a sawmill so the toughest part is finding a large, usable log you can actually get to as most of the easy ones have already been consumed.  

This issue was solved when a utilities company needed to place transmission towers through the woods.  In order to build these towers they needed to cut down these trees.  They not only cut the trees into perfect logs but also nicely stacked them. So for an entire summer after work I would go to the farm where we would drag these logs out of the woods bring them to the sawmill

At the sawmill we would cut the log into slabs, spray the slab with pesticide, then stack it on spacers for drying

We became quite efficient and by the end of the summer we had taken over most of the barn

I had been wanting to make cornhole board so after the wood had dried I picked some up and brought it to my uncles shop.  My uncle is in the process of building an experimental airplane so with his help and my little brother the cornhole boards were light work

After the boards were built I started looking at designs.  I had just moved to the Arizona so I settled on a southwestern theme

I sent this design to a shop where they were able to print me a vinyl stencil.  With some wood stain and a little help from my dog Rex

I was able to transfer this design to to the boards

Next I finished the boards with polyurethane

Now that the boards were complete I just needed cornhole bags and you really can't go wrong with Purdue Pete