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I learned to play cribbage as a child and have enjoyed playing ever since. It was a great game to learn to help with counting, adding and strategy. A couple of years ago I decided to take an old chunk of aluminum and machine a cribbage board of my own. I used autocad to lay out the pattern and an end mill to do the machining. It took some time, due to the fact that I had to surface the board and drill out 481 holes. For the pegs I used aluminum welding filler rod with colored heat shrink to keep track of which pegs were together. I did not make the cards, but I thought the picture would look nice with a perfect 29-point hand on display.
This is the sort of thing you see in high end designer magazines, selling for ridiculous money, so great job :)
Do you have peg storage in the bottom?
I had considered peg storage in the bottom, but I like the look of the pegs waiting for their next big game.
When you say you used auto cad to lay out the pattern did you print out a paper template full size and pase it on and punch the marks (i have used this method a few times), or did you do it the old fashioned way and mark it out from the dimensions of your autocad drawing?
I never got to use a milling machine at work I broke my ankle just weeks before they brought in a milling machine. A mill is on my wish list for tools