We snuck an American past the border, NICE. If he can do it we all can.
I’ve never played crokinole, but I made a carrom board (mentioned in the article) years ago and it’s a lot of fun. Mine was not from very good plywood, so it needed extra starch, but while messy, I could get (what the internet said was) an acceptable number of rebounds. We still have it, but its last use was to hold a partially completed Harry Potter jigsaw puzzle whose many dark areas stubbornly outlasted my daughter’s interest in the franchise. Given ol’ Jo’s proclivities, that’s just as well, though there’s still a few wand and such floating around, a few of which I made on my lathe.
My father used to wax our crokinole board to keep the players sliding evenly.
My dad used Pledge dusting spray. Looks like it’s made from mineral oil, so I guess that’s what was doing the work.
Waxing the crokinole board must be something one could find on canadiansexacts .org
Shut Up and Sit Down have a great review of crokinole that will make you want to buy or make a board if you don’t have one already.
As advertised. I now want to make or buy one.
As kids we used to play this all the time at my grandma’s farm. So much so that I’d bruise my middle finger nail from flicking the discs.
Loved that game a lot.
Ya gotta cozy your finger right up against the disc. That’s the secret.
So that’s what the otherside of my carrom board is for!
