Woodworking: Hex Gaming Trays

These came out way cooler than you made them sound on the podcast! Love all the color variations Drew! Nicely done.

Hey Drew great work
I know you made a joke of the earmuff clamps but that was genius!

This looks awesome! Those dog bones though...the CNC can't carve straight corners for the mortise, it can do rounded for the tenon. It would be like a non-floating domino.

On the dog bones: Draw a line from the corner where you want the dog bone to be into the mortise. This line should be 45 degrees, and should be the radius of the bit you're using. Then draw a circle from the tip of this line up to the corner. If what I wrote here made sense, and you did this, your dog bones should be a lot smaller and less obvious - even when not hidden.

Love the Jenni bits!

Tip for working with those magnets: Use a sharpie to color a consistent face of each magnet. Then when you're putting them in, just be consistent with colored face out on the left and face in on the right.

This is super clever Drew!

When working with a bunch on n magnets, I sharpie mark one side for the whole batch. Because its metal, it will wipe off easy enough with some rubbing, but should stay on long enough for you to get them put in.

Thanks for adding the outtakes of the bit dropping through your workpiece! I thought I was the only one that happened to!

Cool project. We are talking about it as one of this weeks videos tonight on my channel’s livestream.

Another great one Drew! Would you mind sharing your feed rate, DOC and spindle rate you're using on this project? I'm really having a hard time with my Makita on my Onefinity, getting hot.

These are a really nice bit of work, very impressive 👏👏and would make a great gift. I wouldn't be wanting to put my mobile phone so close to 12 of those bad boy rare earth magnets though for risk of knackering my screen, but slot could easily be used for something else instead.

Drew, another fun and useful project. I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning and you just keep getting more creative and skillful. Thanks for the content!

So very cool Drew these I could see coming in very handy in many ways. Great video Thanks for sharing.

That looks like a fun project Drew. Thanks for sharing.

Great stealing that design from Wyrmwood gaming. They have been making those for years.

Sadly I do not own a CNC.
But I would love a set like this. And would certainly not mind to pay extra for it.
Much love from the Netherlands.

You need to sell these!!!!

Awesome awesome project my dude! Love the video. Well done sir

great video Drew! you did a great job!

These designs are awfully similar to Wormwood's...

Fancy

This was a great video fisher and amazing work done by you again!!

The other good source for specialty woods is the local cemetery. Amazing what they make those boxes out of that are only slightly used.

willy's wood honey....giggity.

I have to say Drew, this may be one of your most attractive projects yet! Sure, positives and negatives, like everything I suppose. And I don't want to be all polarizing here, but with your magnetic personality, you really make it work! 😎

Drew working on putting Wyrmwood out of business

Always entertaining and educational. Thanks for posting.

Very nice! I've been wanting to make magnetic tiles for ever.

This is a great video! And a cool project. I’m jealous of your neighbours wood species variety!! Do you still use the boardgame coffee table you made a while back? Would these store in there?

Please tell me you want to sell sets of these! You've got a buyer right here. I love woodworking as a hobby but lack the time and space for many of the tools. Buy a couple more CNCs and put them to work. 😊 Great job!

I had a go at making these Wyrmwood gaming tiles too although I didn't have a cnc so it took quite a bit longer, they are super cool tho and we use them all the time.

Wow. These are beautiful. The design is great! They are simple but as you say you can use it for pretty much any game which is pretty elegant. The assortment of wood species really sets it all off. If they were all one species it would still be as useful but the variation really makes them that much more beautiful.

Plot twist: his neighbor is actually a wood supply store

So wait, super skilled wood workers have bad days in the shop and make tons of mistakes? This makes me feel better about my dumbfoolery and Idiocy in the shop. I appreciate the transparency.

Those are really cool. Nice job.

Super awesome! Wish I had a CNC machine. Maybe sometime in the future

Great idea!! 🐝

Great video, as usual. Love board games, especially Catan. Great idea!

I need these. I'm really tempted to make some, but my neighbors don't have that nice of wood

You must really hate your neighbor for the amount of jokes you about him/her.

We love Catan! 🤙

Was looking forward to this when it popped up on the front of my page, then saw it was CNC...

This video was scientifically engineered in a lab to appeal to my exact interests.

Not that you're necessarily doing anything wrong, but a "tip of the cap" to the designers and your fellow creators goes a long way. Wyrmwood (the original designers of the hexagon tile system) are an incredibly woodworker and DIY friendly company. They encourage people who have the means to copy, make, and innovate on their designs to do so. The least you could do is mention and link to their website for the people that don't have the ability to make these but love the product nonetheless and would like to buy them.

Dont really like someone stealing other woodworkers design and say its your own. Its hard to hide that its basically the same design as wyrmwood. Dont get me wrong nice work but dont steal designs and not so much giving them a shout out...

Hey Fish, great project! I don't own a CNC... Are you open to making a set or two to sell? V

Unfortunately, I don't have a fancy CNC machine. I would love to see how to do this on another method if you have ideas.