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
- 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
External links
- A collection of newsgroup posts on this subject can be found on
Ken Warkentyne's pages.
- Slotted Go Boards
Young's gobans.
- A special home made goban :
The one in the world DIY sequoiadendron giganteum goban
Authors
Note: This is just a repost of my topic to a better spot Goban making ala CountDooku (18K KGS)
Due to the length of this topic, I've made a dedicated web page of it on http://www.geocities.com/sw161519/goban.htm
Any comments are gladly welcomed
With regards, CountDooku
sduff: I've just found this site related to making your own goban, but alas, is in a language foreign to me. It has a few pictures of the pyramid beneath the goban, and may discuss this.
PatG: go here for the Google translation.
Jerome : I'm the author of this page. I want to translate it in english, but I'm a bit lazy and lacks some technical vocabulary. Anyway, you can use everything in this page (texts and pictures) as you want (they're beer-licensed as everything should be ;).