Add a bead of wood glue along one of the sides of a ‘long side’ board. The holes should be about 3/8 away from the side and evenly spaced. Use a countersink bit (or a regular drill bit about the size of the screw shank) and drill holes for the screws as shown in the sketch. I sanded the insides of the holes with my oscillating spindle sander and rounded the edges of the holes over with a 1/4 inch rounder bit in my router. Cut the 4 pieces of 1×8 to be 19 3/4 long. Once the holes are drilled I cut along the outside lines of the rectangle with my jig saw and connected the two holes to make one large handle hole in each of the boards. Using a 2 inch forstner bit I drilled 2 holes in each board on the 2 center points I marked on the rectangle that were 1 inch in from the end. Create a portable, level game platform with a plywood base and pine wood frame. These points will act as center marks for the holes that will be drilled With 2x4 boards and a saw, you can make a giant set of your own.

I marked a center line horizontally across the rectangle and marked a point 1 inch in from each side. From the center I measured 3 inches in each direction, marked 2 lines, measured down 4 inches from the top and marked a line across the board, measured 2 inches down from the top and marked another line across.įor the handles I first laid out a rectangle that was centered on each of the side boards 6 inches wide, 2 inches tall, and 2 inches down from the top of the board. For the layout of the handles I first found the center point of both the left and right side boards.

Large jenga setup