Wooden Rebound Game

When I was 11 years old, I was bored. So I looked on the internet for things I could make and decided to make a rebound game. I am sure that some of you have seen a game like this made of cheap plastic where you have to flick or push a 'puck' (for want of a better word) down the board. It then bounces off 2 elastic bands and into the scoring zones. The aim is to get the highest score you can without pushing the 'puck' too hard, because if you do it scores nothing.

I saw one of these on the internet, and thought, I could make one of those. So I did. And this instructable shows you how I did it (with a little help from my friends).

There are a few differences between my game and the plastic one.
1. Mine is made from wood.
2. Mine looks a lot better.
3. Mine is a lot bigger.
4. Oh forget it... My point is that mine is better in every way apart from the cost, and the portableness (is that a word?) On with the instructable.

Instructables tip / Common sense: Read through the whole instructable before you make it so there are no bits that take you by surprise.

I'm not going to beg for your votes like other people do, but it would be appreciated if you just click the vote button on my instructable.

By the way, the reason that there are no photos of the making is that I made it in school, and I made it just over two years ago.

Step 1 Materials

My game is like a human. It has a main 'body', a 'spine' and other parts that have nothing to do with the human body. Anyway... this is what you'll need for this project.

The 'body': 121cm/47 5/8" by 46cm/18 1/8" by 1.8cm/??? MDF or for non-veneer method pine or another such wood.
The edging: width 2.5cm/1": height: 4.5cm/1 3/4" length 2 sets: 48cm/19" and 121cm/47 5/8" preferably a hardwood
Veneer: 121cm/47 5/8" by 46cm/18 1/8" pine or similar. small strips of other veneer, preferably different colours
Triangles: 22.5cm/nearly 9" by 25.5cm/10" by 2cm/3/4" rectangle cut corner to corner. Preferably same wood as edging
Spine: 93cm/36.5" by 2cm/3/4" by roughly 1cm/1/2"
2 thick elastic bands
About 10cm/4" dowel thick enough not to break when quite a lot of pressure is applied
2 circular rods of plastic of diameter 2cm different colours
12 ball-bearings
 A strong wood glue

Comments

[aesquivel]

When I was 11 there was no Internet :(
Nice work, by the way.

[jamiec53]

Thanks! I'm really glad you liked it. When I was eleven, there was lots of Internet :)
Such a useful invention, the world-wide web. Thank you Mr Berners-Lee!

Anyway, yeah, happy you thought it was good :)

[lafnbear]

Excellent work, but dude, please: dimensions?

[jamiec53]

???????
there are dimensions...