Making Your Own Equipment

One of the beauties about Go is its simplicity. The rules and the material needed are simple.

It doesn't come as a surprise that many Go players have therefore made their own Goban (board), stones and bowls.

Several discussions have been had on rec.games.go and in various woodworking newsgroups about the subject, and it is easy to get lost in all the details.

The aim of this path is to give an overview of the most important points.

• Equipment Dimensions
• Selecting the material
  • Material Goban
  • Material Stones
  • Material Bowls
  • Unusual Materials
• Surface Finish
• Teaching Goban
• Caring for Go Stones
• Making a Go Set for Blind Players

• Goban Self Made by Kjeld Petersen
• KoshGobans by Kosh
• FuZZ/Gobans by Fuzz
• Halo5/Gobans by Halo5
• RobAnybody/FoldingGoban by RobAnybody
• Upgrade from .5in board to folding 2.5in table board with legs by HikaruUSA
• Made a 9x9 goban and mini shogiban and table to floor board adaptor by cinygmato

External links

• Slotted Go Boards Young's gobans.
• David's instruction on how to make a goban: http://www.bamsoftware.com/go/board.html
• Jerome Andrieux's instructions: archived
• CountDooku's instructions: archived
• SteffenGlueckselig's create your own board grid to print (svg format): http://www.gungfu.de/go/gobans/grid/
• Video: CARVING Board Making by Board Artisan Torayoshi Yoshida

Authors

• Morten Pahle
• Other people who edited the page