How To Build a Cornhole Board - Part 1 of 4

Tom from Chi Town Custom Cornhole walks the DIY cornhole board builder through the steps to making a custom cornhole board. Part one features preparation and initial cuts. If you need more info or want to see a collection of the complete video series you can visit the Chitown cornhole website at http://chitowncornhole.com to see more of our custom cornhole boards

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• cornhole
• baggo
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• chi
• town
• bags
• corn
• toss
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[Martaan66]

Why not make them regulation?

[scrumtrilescent57]

@Martaan66 With us the tail-gate sized boards are more popular. I personally don't play on a regulation board. Besides, if you can hit the smaller sized target moving to a regulation sized board is easy ;)

If you really want to build it regulation all you need to do is adjust the mesurements from a 2 x 3 size to a 2 x 4 size. The technique remains the same.

[2511mnd]

I used 5/8 in. plywood. I see you use 3/4 in. I made regulation size 2ft. by 4ft. Will the thickness of the wood make a difference? My Bags are 1 lb. each. They seem to hit hard. It seems that sometimes they do o.k. and sometimes they bounce and roll off the board. Does this seem normal?

[scrumtrilescent57]

@2511mnd What you are seeing is normal. If you use the thinner wood with the large surface area of a full sized board you will get more of a trampoline effect when the bags hit, particularly on high lofted throws. Perhaps you can brace the surface of the board from underneath with a cross plank 1x1 to reduce this. Good luck. BTW - no one gets it right the first time so no worries.

[martialarts2020]

36 inch boards are not regulation sizes. 24 x 48 is the regulation size

[scrumtrilescent57]

@martialarts2020 Thanks for the comment. There are actually 2 commonly used sizes, and I wish we had said so in the video for clarity but too late now. The size you refer to is indeed the regulation and the size we are talking about is the "tail gate" size. We are about to publish the rest of the improved how to build a cornhole board series after sitting on it for 2 years and I will call that out at least in text.

[EricCamper]

@buggzy2oo4

He is building REGULATION TAILGATE boards... Perhaps you should reread and learn

[scrumtrilescent57]

@hawkdlb06 As long as you meet the size and weight requirements you are good to go. Corn obviously is the more traditional filler but some bags even use synthetic materials.

[scrumtrilescent57]

@hawkdlb06 6 x 6, 14-16 ounces.

[hawkdlb06]

and what does it have to be put inside the bag, i heard corn but can it be beans like lentils