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tesa ® Handicrafts tape is a highly versatile double-sided self-adhesive tape for home decorating and crafting. It offers strong adhesion on many surfaces.
DIY Backgammon Board
DIY Backgammon Board
When we're outside, the smartphone stays in the bag, and we play backgammon - on a DIY backgammon board with hand-painted tokens.
What we need:
- 2 plywood boards: 24.5 x 38 cm x 4 mm,
- 2 wax cloths: 24.5 x 38 cm
- patterned papers: 1 with black ground, 1 with white ground
- ruler
- scissors
- pencil
- 30 round tokens made of natural wood Ø 28 mm
- acrylic paint in white and black
- brush
- black satin ribbon: 2 x 45 cm x 8 mm
- dices
- tesa ® Handicraft Tape 2.75 m x 38 mm
- tesa extra Power® PERFECT black 2.75 m x 38 mm (fabric tape)
- tesa Easy Stick ecoLogo®
- tesa ® Masking Tape Perfect 50 m x 19 m
How we do it:
DIY Backgammon / Step 1
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Apply handicraft tape on one side around both wooden boards and peel off the protective films.
DIY Backgammon / Step 2
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Smoothly glue on the wax cloths.
DIY Backgammon / Step 3
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Border the short sides of the boards with fabric tape. Simply place the boards in the center of a previously cut piece of fabric tape …
DIY Backgammon / Step 4
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… and smooth it down on both sides of the edges. Cut off the remaining tape on the left and right sides.
DIY Backgammon / Step 5
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Now border one long side of each board, and insert a piece of satin ribbon in the center of the oil cloth side.
DIY Backgammon / Step 6
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Cut a narrow strip from the fabric tape, place the satin ribbon on the outside of the border and fix it with the fabric tape.
DIY Backgammon / Step 7
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Place the two wooden boards next to each other - along the non-bordered long sides, with the wooden side up - and apply a strip of fabric tape in the Center.
DIY Backgammon / Step 8
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Fold the board, and apply fabric tape in the center of the outer edge. Fold the exceeding tape over the sides.
DIY Backgammon / Step 9
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Cut 12 triangles - 3.5 cm wide and 15 cm high - from each of the patterned papers. Apply glue to the back side of each paper triangle …
DIY Backgammon / Step 10
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… and alternately apply 6 pieces on both sides of each wooden board.
DIY Backgammon / Step 11
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Mask off half of each wooden token with masking tape and color 15 tokens with white and 15 with black paint.
DIY Backgammon / Step 12
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After drying, remove the masking tape.
DIY Backgammon / Step 13
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