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Crib Board Design


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Hey guys,

First post here, wondering if anyone has any ideas for me or suggestions.

I am designing a custom crib board on my computer which I am going to print out and then glue to a piece of wood as a base pattern. I'm going to cut it out and then drill the holes by hand.

I was trying to think of a way that I can make sure the peg holes are all evenly spaced on photoshop so that it looks really professional but have hit a wall, anyone got an idea? There must be a relatively easy way to do this but since it's a custom shape (not just a rectangle or a circle) it might be tricky.

If you don't know what a crib board is, it's a card game where you keep score on a wooden board with pegs, the pegs go up to 121 and there are three rows of them (total of three teams possible) the peg holes are also usually divided into chunks of 5. Here is an idea of what I am talking about:

Cribbage.jpg
Except I want to make a custom shape.

Anything you can come up would be great!

CH
 
I know cribbage. Well, my late husband and his friends played it and I watched and bought him boards for his birthday.

Is the example you posted the shape and orientation you want to make? It's going to be hard to get the measurements right given the angle. I imagine you are designing it as a regular playing board. You'll need to have a rectangle to work with that has right angles. Then you can use the grid to set up guidelines. At least that is how I would do it. The curves are going to be tricky I guess. But I think -- without trying it -- that evenly spacing the guidelines will still work since they are along the same grid, just curving. Help us if someone has better advice on this! LOL.
 
ibclare said:
I know cribbage. Well, my late husband and his friends played it and I watched and bought him boards for his birthday.

Is the example you posted the shape and orientation you want to make? It's going to be hard to get the measurements right given the angle. I imagine you are designing it as a regular playing board. You'll need to have a rectangle to work with that has right angles. Then you can use the grid to set up guidelines. At least that is how I would do it. The curves are going to be tricky I guess. But I think -- without trying it -- that evenly spacing the guidelines will still work since they are along the same grid, just curving. Help us if someone has better advice on this! LOL.
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Actually the outline I want to use is the Wu-Tang logo:

image001.jpg

It might be kind of tricky but I think it can be done. Once I can put the peg holes on the logo in some pattern (probably just following the edge from the top left corner down and hopefully ending up on the birds head) I can print it out and make the rest but I need to design it first.
 
So I want to know the best way to make it look like this

wutang.jpg

The lines are just a continuation of the peg holes except I didn't want to draw all of them. The final, 121 peg hole is on the birds head.
 
I don't know about the spacing of the holes. That will probably need to be measured out once you actually have the board lines set up. To make those lines properly, you likely need to use the pen tool. This takes some practice, so you may want to consider your options. You may find someone who needs the practice to do it for you. Or you can try it yourself. If neither of these options work out well enough, consider making it a freelance job.

If this isn't what you're aiming for, my apologies.
 
looks a little tricky , and i dont think your going to do much without a few mistakes , , imo best way would be draw it on graph paper , get it right then use tracing paper and mark the holes , then obviously drill them on your board , probably not too hard when you really get into it , you will really only have to get the spacing around the outside right first then the inside then square off the two holes for the middle two holes , it is cribbage lol and i play a bit , just spend ten bucks and buy a board haha the result is the same lol a game of cards a board some pegs a winner and loser
 
I played with this for awhile last night and Clare is right, the problem was not the colored lines they were very easy. I just used the pattern you posted, removed the white BG, and made a selection (using command + Click. I then went to SELECT > MODIFY > CONTRACT > 30 pixels > OK) to make a path. I then created two more paths using the same method, one at 60 and one at 90. I stroked each path with a hard edged brush in their respective colors..

The hole spacing is the major problem!!!
My first attempts at placing the holes I used stroke path but separated the brush spacing. This worked well but he hole spacing is a nightmare and looked tragic. (corners and curves) I think each hole may need to be placed manually by following the paths. Getting the count right is going to be way more work than I wanted to do!
Good luck!
 
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Exactly Sam I am. I didn't think of using the same path. Best idea. And I totally agree with the manual peg holes. Sharpen that pencil and measure twice!
 
Fantastic idea Colleague! Custom brush!! I'm always using brushes for crazy stuff like this, the thought just did not occur to me!
How many times did it take you to get the spacing right? I was using a separate path for each so that I could also stroke them with their colored lanes.
 
I didn't adapt the spacing but adapted the brush-size a little bit (3 times)
the lanes were also done with the same brush and same path ,but no spacing there
 
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