Show me yer Cornhole!

[Le Chuck]

A buddy asked if I could help him build a cornhole set. If you're not familiar it's a bean bag tossing game usually found in the midst of barbeques and beers at major tailgating events.  He's a UGA fan (the concessions I make for some folks) so it got the appropriate paint job and he'll be tossing on all kinds of decals I'm sure. 

This is my first set and I thought it came out pretty nice.  Not content to build a simple set I decide to make it a conversion so it can be used as a beer-pong/flip-cup table as well.  It will probably see some use for poker as well.  Basically I raped a folding table. 

I'm itching to build my own now but want to do mine out of PVC sheet with pipe for legs and do a full vinyl wrap on it so I can go "full retard" with the art.  War Damn Eagle.

Anyway thought I'd post up some pics and and wanted to see if there are any other Holer's out there with a board to share.

[ChadTower]

Very nice.  A few friends here play a variant of washers called Grunt.  Not sure if they made it up or they just play it.  Fun enough if you have a lot of people around.

[Nephasth]

[Well Fed Games]

Hmmm. you could do some sort of vibration sensor (contact mic?) for on-deck hits, and a microswitch for  in-hole... then run the signals to a detached scoreboard... just thinking about how to pimp one out BYOAC style...

[Le Chuck]

Hmmm. you could do some sort of vibration sensor (contact mic?) for on-deck hits, and a microswitch for  in-hole... then run the signals to a detached scoreboard... just thinking about how to pimp one out BYOAC style...

That's a good idea - tricky to implement with slide offs and bounce outs tho.  I added T-molding for a bit of arcade feel but it is in desperate need of feature creep.  I need to look into those scoring towers anyway.  I've seen some decent ones that double as drink stations.  I could probably implement a dart board as well but something tells me I'd need to go soft tip. 

[BadMouth]

Don't have a set, but been thinking about it.
Really need to work on my CP instead.

Came accross this home depot how-to a few days ago:
http://apps.facebook.com/hdgameday/?cm_sp=Homepage-_-9_13-_-Row1_A-_-College_Gameday
(click DIY tailgating at the lower left)

[404]

In wrestling/grappling that's actually called "the oil check"

[Hoopz]

Here's half of a set I made for my brother in law who is a Steelers fan  The other board has black border around a yellow base with the steelers emblem in the middle. 

I put quite a few coats of Poly on them to keep the decals from coming up.

LeChuck, I like that paint job.  What kind of tape did you use?  A buddy suggested that I try Frog Tape and it worked out well.

[Le Chuck]

That's a nice set. I'll probably stay away from the 4x2 full size and stick with the 2x3 tailgate size. I used Frog Tape as well, have a few very small bleed throughs that I had to fix. First time using it. Next time I'll base coat the tape with gesso like I usually do with regular tape. It did have a nice clean release. We haven't poly'd this set yet, good advice to use it to keep the decals down.

[ChadTower]

I see a lot of ladder golf sets when we go camping.  Nobody ever seems to be playing it.  It's just set up while everybody is doing other things.

[Hoopz]

That's a nice set. I'll probably stay away from the 4x2 full size and stick with the 2x3 tailgate size. I used Frog Tape as well, have a few very small bleed throughs that I had to fix. First time using it. Next time I'll base coat the tape with gesso like I usually do with regular tape. It did have a nice clean release. We haven't poly'd this set yet, good advice to use it to keep the decals down.

I had bleed through too and asked my friend who owns a painting company.  He suggested the Frog Tape and shared a few techniques that helped.  Common sense stuff that I should have known....   

Hadn't heard of gesso before.  I'll have to look into it.

Ladder golf is pretty common too.  Nothing beats traditional lawn darts for a good time though.

[Nephasth]

In wrestling/grappling that's actually called "the oil check"

Well, judging by the pic, I'd say she's a little over full...

[BadMouth]

[Vigo]

Ladder golf is pretty common too.  Nothing beats traditional lawn darts for a good time though.

You have an old set? Unless you are talking about the cushy kind, they don't really make them anymore.

[Le Chuck]

Gesso is a base coat used to prep canvases for other media.  It seals the canvas so the pigments don't run through the threads.  As a side use it also seals tape edges so that the paint doesn't run underneath and allows you to wet sand over the tape.  I usually use it and always get crisp lines.  Tried Frog Tape and really liked it but there is no substitute for old school. 

I'm thinking about adding a "washers" board that will set into the corn hole on my next set.  I'm trying to combine as many tailgate games as I can into one set in hopes that somebody will want to play something.  Really tho, I can't ever pass up beerpong.  It's my weakness.

[Mysterioii]

My parents used to have 2 sets of the real lawn darts (or "jarts"), but they're long since gone...   

[ChadTower]

So make your own.  People here can make complex machines but not a 12" dart?  Come on, man, build your own jarts!   

[Mysterioii]

Well I don't miss them THAT much...      Although sometimes I do wish I had a lathe...  never used one and don't have room for one, but still think some fun could be had there...

[Vigo]

I thought over how to DIY lawn darts after Hoopz mentioned it. I think for the most part it would be easy. i'm just wondering the best way to make a durable flight for it.

[ChadTower]

Pull one off of those crappy modern ones.

[JMB]

I thought over how to DIY lawn darts after Hoopz mentioned it. I think for the most part it would be easy. i'm just wondering the best way to make a durable flight for it.

Someone already put way more thought into it.



Or you could smuggle some in from parts of the world where fun is less regulated

http://landdart.se/

[ChadTower]

Note for US/Canada customers: We now have a US/Canada approved blunt tip version.

Heh.

[Vigo]

Some good ideas. I might be jarting next summer. 

[yotsuya]

Some good ideas. I might be jarting next summer. 

Make sure you wear your jean shorts while doing so.

[ChadTower]

Dude. 


youtsuya's Annual JARTS 'N JORTS Tournament!

[yotsuya]

Dude. 


youtsuya's Annual JARTS 'N JORTS Tournament!

Bring the girlie mags!!!

yotsuya's Annual JUGGS, JARTS 'N JORTS Tournament!

[Le Chuck]

They always seemed like a stupidly dangerous toy to me but they were before my time or not very popular in the places I lived.  I've heard a million urban legends about them from the mouths of business law and marketing professors.  Up there in the Chevy Nova category for sure.

I had a set of the old school skull crushers.  Played maybe twice.  Spent all of my time trying to stick them in trees or seeing how far/high I could launch them.  Weird that they were allowed in the house considering my father handled wrongful death and dismemberment lawsuits for a major cooperation and he was usually hip to the lawsuit waiting to happen type deals.  Of course he had a recliner with a pop out foot rest in the house and those things are a straight up death trap so maybe not.  Likely he just wanted to thin the herd. 

Either way I have no love lost for yarts being hard to come by.

[Nephasth]

Of course he had a recliner with a pop out foot rest in the house and those things are a straight up death trap so maybe not.

What the hell?

[Le Chuck]

Of course he had a recliner with a pop out foot rest in the house and those things are a straight up death trap so maybe not.

What the hell?

My father worked for the manufacturer that designed the fold out mechanism as their legal counsel.  Brought home all kinds of pics of kids injured and killed by "lazy-boy" style recliners in the early '80s.  He wrote the following which is found on recliners to this day to my knowledge:

CAUTION: Do not allow children to play on this mechanized furniture or operate the mechanism. Leg rest folds down on closing so that a child could possibly be injured. Always leave in an upright and closed position and keep hands and feet clear of mechanism. Only the occupant should operate it.

http://www.warren-group.com/publications/articles/do-not-let-your-child-be-injured/index.cfm;jsessionid=f0308b0ee669cfc7cb403f13747d7f5568d5?bhcp=1

[ChadTower]

More than once I have seen a kid jump onto that footrest and have it collapse.  It dumps them right on the back of their head.

I have one of those chairs.  Hasn't killed anyone yet.

[Vigo]

And that's why you never play with recliner foot rests.

[ChadTower]

I sincerely hope nobody here has kids that dumb. 

[dendawg]

[danny_galaga]

[Gray_Area]

Okay, there was too much tossing mentioned.

You need to check out the X-rated version. They go full on.

[Le Chuck]

Necrobump because my favorite time of the year is soon upon us - the Fall, when there are tailgates everyweekend and public drunkenness is not only condoned but expected!!!

So at the top of this thread I made a corn hole/beer pong table.  There were several things right with this build but a few things wrong.  It was heavy - stupid 2x4 and 3/4" plywood heavy, and it was kind of a pain to get into and out of corn hole mode.  Fortunately it was for a friend, which is the best way to do new projects because they're always happy with what you make and you can make all your mistakes on theirs. 

Well after some careful planning I am proud to present the yet unpainted but construction-wise finished BEERHOLE^tm!!!

BEERHOLE is lighter but just as stable as the original, with no bounce play as a corn hole.  It is self filling - no more screwing in that pesky corn hole.  It is regulation size for both competitive corn hole and beer pong (yes that's a thing... god bless 'merica!).  Best of all, for a single person conversion it goes from pong to hole in 1 min flat and from hole to pong in 90 seconds. 

Just need to get it painted.  Pics!


Beer Pong mode


From the end

 
Corn Hole mode - still need to fill those threaded inserts.


Detail 1 of how I cured that self filling corn hole issue, the disc is on a picture hanging type slide to allow vertical movement so it can clear the shift into position and also automatically tuck up when on the ground in corn hole mode. 


Detail 2 of the same, just slide up for ground clearance. 

Once I get'er painted up I'll post again.  Yes I know I have other important projects to be working on and yes I know that this isn't arcadey but it is damn good fun and the original heavy ass slow changing version got used probably 40 times a year for the last two years so that's like basically more than half the arcade builds in this place lol. 

[Howard_Casto]

Slightly on topic but I looked all summer for a good set of horse shoes.  They just don't sell them anymore.  Much like the lawn darts they've went to these rubber pieces of crap. 

I need regulation steel shoes, you know, the ones you can cave a person's skull in with.  Grandpaw used to be the master... nobody would play with him because he never lost.  He taught me so I'm amazingly good... not as good as he was (I never saw him get any less than a leaner) but still pretty good.

I should have a set under a building somewhere around here... they are probably rusted as hell, so I'll have to refurbish them.   

[Slippyblade]

Oh man Howard, come visit Phoenix sometime.  Blacksmiths and farriers are all over the place.  What's your budget and I could call around for ya maybe?

[Le Chuck]

Howard, have you checked out: http://www.horseshoesonline.com/horseshoelist.htm these are some pretty serious horseshoes. 

I played a lot of horseshoes in Afghanistan the first time, really enjoyed it.  Haven't played much at home, when the kids are older we might set up a pitch in the yard.  Right now they'd just bean eachother and it would be nothing but concussion city. 

[Vigo]

Horseshoes is an awesome game, but I suck at it. I would say my favorite yard game is bocce ball. I love curling, so this falls in line with it.

[Hoopz]

Necrobump because my favorite time of the year is soon upon us - the Fall, when there are tailgates everyweekend and public drunkenness is not only condoned but expected!!!

So at the top of this thread I made a corn hole/beer pong table.  There were several things right with this build but a few things wrong.  It was heavy - stupid 2x4 and 3/4" plywood heavy, and it was kind of a pain to get into and out of corn hole mode.  Fortunately it was for a friend, which is the best way to do new projects because they're always happy with what you make and you can make all your mistakes on theirs. 

Well after some careful planning I am proud to present the yet unpainted but construction-wise finished BEERHOLE^tm!!!

BEERHOLE is lighter but just as stable as the original, with no bounce play as a corn hole.  It is self filling - no more screwing in that pesky corn hole.  It is regulation size for both competitive corn hole and beer pong (yes that's a thing... god bless 'merica!).  Best of all, for a single person conversion it goes from pong to hole in 1 min flat and from hole to pong in 90 seconds. 

Just need to get it painted.  Pics!

Once I get'er painted up I'll post again.  Yes I know I have other important projects to be working on and yes I know that this isn't arcadey but it is damn good fun and the original heavy ass slow changing version got used probably 40 times a year for the last two years so that's like basically more than half the arcade builds in this place lol.

That's a brilliant idea.  Great job.

Theme for them?

[Le Chuck]

Theme will be Auburn University being that I'm a AU grad.  I'll be using the woodgrain as the white in all the logos so it should just be orange and blue on wood.  Oughta turn out pretty sharp.  I'm borrowing heavily from some other AU corn holes I've found online and liked but of course with my own preferences.  I have a set of plans laying around somewhere that I'll get uploaded so others can make their own but really once I take a pic of the bottom that'll be all you need - and frankly you can probably copy it just fine from the pics that are posted already.  Each board is 2'x4' with 3" rises and the pong legs are 30".  Tables join with two simple 1" dowel push plugs. 

[ChadTower]

They have cornhole tournaments around here.  In fact I'm pretty sure they break the record for largest cornhole tournament every year at Gillette Stadium.  Lots of people playing this game around here because there are so many Patriots and concert tailgaters.

Man those people get drunk when they play.  That's the actual challenge.  It doesn't seem to be the board with one hole in it.  It's the fact that to them there must be three moving holes.

[Le Chuck]

Man those people get drunk when they play.  That's the actual challenge.  It doesn't seem to be the board with one hole in it.  It's the fact that to them there must be three moving holes.

Having spent a fair amount of time playing corn hole under the influence I have found that the hole remains right where it should be, but everything else around that lane gets very fuzzy.  In a way it's like you're creating an alcohol induced sensory deprivation chamber - by the time you're deep in there is only you and the bags.  Once you shift focus off the corn hole everything goes to hell. 

[Hoopz]

Man those people get drunk when they play.  That's the actual challenge.  It doesn't seem to be the board with one hole in it.  It's the fact that to them there must be three moving holes.

Having spent a fair amount of time playing corn hole under the influence I have found that the hole remains right where it should be, but everything else around that lane gets very fuzzy.  In a way it's like you're creating an alcohol induced sensory deprivation chamber - by the time you're deep in there is only you and the bags.  Once you shift focus off the corn hole everything goes to hell.

Reminds me of the WKRP episode where Johnny and Venus drink on the air and then have their reaction times monitored to show the effects of drinking.  Venus' times go down while Johnny's improve dramatically.

Every thread needs a WKRP reference.   

[HaRuMaN]

Roll Tide!

[Le Chuck]

Roll Tide!

Yeah they rolled last year, right onto their backs. 

[Hoopz]

Good old Harvey!

EDIT:  To be clear, I think he's an idiot.

[Vigo]

I didn't mention it before, but I think your new cornhole is very nice and clean looking. It is a very innovative idea and I think it is marketable as well. I'd be willing to bet that you could make a lot of money selling your cornhole to college students. I'd consider showing it around to a few companies when you are done.

 
Oh, and since you seem to be the yard game master around here, if you are ever looking for a game to try/build, I recommend looking into kubb, aka viking chess. It is almost strictly a DIY built yard game and is pretty darn fun. My brother, who teaches HS art/shop class has his students build sets every year and it gained a cult following in the town where he teaches.

[Hoopz]

I didn't mention it before, but I think your new cornhole is very nice and clean looking. It is a very innovative idea and I think it is marketable as well. I'd be willing to bet that you could make a lot of money selling your cornhole to college students. I'd consider showing it around to a few companies when you are done.

 
Oh, and since you seem to be the yard game master around here, if you are ever looking for a game to try/build, I recommend looking into kubb, aka viking chess. It is almost strictly a DIY built yard game and is pretty darn fun. My brother, who teaches HS art/shop class has his students build sets every year and it gained a cult following in the town where he teaches.

I had to Google it but it looks interesting.  Way too complicated if you've been drinking though until you know all the rules in and out....

[yotsuya]

I'd be willing to bet that you could make a lot of money selling your cornhole to college students.

You sound like Joe Francis doing a "Girls Gone Wild" pitch to coeds. 

[Vigo]

I had to Google it but it looks interesting.  Way too complicated if you've been drinking though until you know all the rules in and out....

I can imagine the game could degrade pretty quickly into just chucking sticks at each other. 

I'd be willing to bet that you could make a lot of money selling your cornhole to college students.

You sound like Joe Francis doing a "Girls Gone Wild" pitch to coeds. 

The man that almost figured out a way to make luring underage women into his van legal. I hear he is practically a folk hero to pedos. 

[Howard_Casto]

Man those people get drunk when they play.  That's the actual challenge.  It doesn't seem to be the board with one hole in it.  It's the fact that to them there must be three moving holes.

Having spent a fair amount of time playing corn hole under the influence I have found that the hole remains right where it should be, but everything else around that lane gets very fuzzy.  In a way it's like you're creating an alcohol induced sensory deprivation chamber - by the time you're deep in there is only you and the bags.  Once you shift focus off the corn hole everything goes to hell.

Reminds me of the WKRP episode where Johnny and Venus drink on the air and then have their reaction times monitored to show the effects of drinking.  Venus' times go down while Johnny's improve dramatically.

Every thread needs a WKRP reference.   

Every thread needs two:

As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!

[Le Chuck]

I didn't mention it before, but I think your new cornhole is very nice and clean looking. It is a very innovative idea and I think it is marketable as well. I'd be willing to bet that you could make a lot of money selling your cornhole to college students. I'd consider showing it around to a few companies when you are done.

Thanks man, I appreciate it; also, phrasing!  Boom! Nailed it. 

My original thought behind this was as a marketable product.  I thought about trying to do a kickstarter (gak ack political band!) and crank out my own - ideally it would be an avenue for me to get my own CNC machine, but I like the idea of shopping it out to established businesses.  Lot of merit in that idea - that and I already have a career and am not really looking to eat up all my free time grinding out Beerhole^tm sets.  Depends on what I could sell them for I guess, I should probably hurry up and finish this one and take it to a few AU tailgates and see how it goes. 

Kubb looks cool, I'm watching a few videos about it now.  Looks like a simple fun build - will have to add it to the queue.  Thanks!
 

[Kier]

Cool Corn Hole setup.

Another great lawn game, Beer Pong with 5-gallon buckets and and a kickball, soccer ball, etc

[yotsuya]

My original thought behind this was as a marketable product.  I thought about trying to do a kickstarter (gak ack political band!) and crank out my own

See, and that's a perfect use for Kickstarter. People who want one prepay, you raise the capital to make it, and all are happy. You provide a product in exchange for their investment/payment.

If it were "Help me raise money to buy me a cornhole so I can be the 2015 Cornhole Champion", then I'd have to kick you in the balls.

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah I have no problem with kickstarter when it's something like "I've made this product but I can't afford to mass produce it... how about some pre-orders?"  on the other hand "I've got this idea for a product that may or may not work, how about 2 mill for r&d?" gets my nard kicking foot to twitchin'. 

[pbj]

3rd generation Aggie.  Stood through many football games.

All I can say is SEC football and Alabama games freaked us all the hell out.

 

[Le Chuck]

Now all I have to do is seal it and it'll be done. 

[yotsuya]

Is that 'worn' look intentional? I really like it.

[Le Chuck]

Is that 'worn' look intentional? I really like it.

Yep. Terrified my wife when I spent hours painting it then she finds me sanding it down. I wanted to add some patina before I seal it up.

[yotsuya]

Awesome job, my friend. 

[pbj]

 

[Le Chuck]

Thanks guys, I need to do some work on the plans and get it converted over to mach3.  My buddy just bought a full sheet CNC and I get free tool time on it which means I have to start learning some software.  I want to focus on Space Base build wise for the next several months but I think there may be an attempt to go retail with this design.  Going to test it by throwing parties and going to fullball games with this season and see how it holds up. 

I have to be out of town for AU's opening game but I'll get it to out to the first home game I can and see how it does in the wild.  Might bump the final up to a full 3/4" panel if I can get the full build out of a single sheet that way.  I think I might be able to swing it.  Maybe not.