ApyCop1/Goban Workshop

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Here's my first Goban building experience.

Here's my contribution to this page.

I've also finished my own Legged Goban, it's made of Framire for the board and Oak for the legs, weight 19Kg. Dimensions L:455mm W:425mm H:180mm(board) 300mm(with legs)

http://pierreg.mongin.free.fr/images/Goban-ApyCop1_finished.jpg

I've made the board with three Framire pieces (each divided in three to avoid too much wood working) and glued together (one week of pressing and drying). Framire is a beautiful yellowish wood, but a true nightmare to work with (doesn't have straight grain) so i haven't done the pyramid on the bottom (but i plan to make it on an Oak board)

The finishing was quite long, sanding the board from grain 80 to 260 (glass like surface), application of two preparation coating (witch caps wood grain), then three uncolored varnish layers (with sanding grain 600 between each layers, don't forget to put away the dust). I've made the tracing with a Rotring Rapidograph 1mm on a perfectly unpolished surface. Then, three final varnish layers to protect the tracing.

The legs are made out of Oak and sculpted with wood scisors, wood grater, saw and muscles ;) The finishing was made with Light Oak varnish (three layers)

http://pierreg.mongin.free.fr/images/legworking.jpg http://pierreg.mongin.free.fr/images/legworking02.jpg


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