Bruce Beatty, a fire department training officer and woodworker from Orangeville, Ontario.Ī beginner can make this woodworking project, and using the cribbage board drilling-guide template from Rockler makes drilling the holes a snap. (One of the ways you earn points in cribbage is by combining cards that add up to 15 or 31.) I can still hear someone counting out “that’s 15 for two and a pair is four!” If you can believe it, this design was originally sent to us from a person who lives even further north than where I grew up. It is such a popular pastime “up North,” that I would not be surprised if it was the primary way most of my friends learned to count and to add. Making one or multiple classic cribbage boards is easy with this project plan and a drilling guide that perfectly locates the more than 260 holes.ĭuring those long, cold winters I spent growing up along the shores of Lake Vermilion in the far north of Minnesota, one of the ways that we wiled away the long dark evenings was playing cribbage.
