Project:TAC
| ProjectInfoBox "TAC" Boardgame | |
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| Status: | final tweaks & documentation |
| Release Date: | (mainly) summer 2018 |
| Initiator: | Flo |
| Team: | Daniel, Lukas |
| Materials Used: | glued laminated timber (Eucalyptus diversicolor/"Karri" for 4 players, spruce/fir for 6); TAC cards & marbles, (optional) felt, olive oil |
| Tools Used: | CNC router, table saw, router table, rotary tool, sandpaper |
| Software Used: | Fusion 360 |
| Approx. Cost: | 40 € |
One of Lukas' colleagues kept talking about the game TAC whose inventors offered really nice & expensive deluxe boards but also sets of everything except the board, so they started to make some boards of their own.
intended mainly as a rough inspiration page for now, but please ask if you have any questions!
Gallery
preparing to cut a practice piece from one of our stock boards
design of the practice piece with all the needed shapes in Fusion 360
(partially) failed practice piece: one of the tool changes caused the CNC router to move along the X axis - always home after a tool change!
on to the full game - design in Fusion 360
partially routed 6-player board on the WorkBee
back to pictures of the 4-player game: undecorated version completely routed
the decorated version required some manual corrections with a rotary tool because the warped board was not engraved evenly by the CNC router
...and trimmed to the partial-depth outline with a flush-cut router bit
after the outline was finished, the edges of the 4-player board were prettified with a roundover router bit
4-player board ready to leave the workshop with only minor steps left
a chamfer bit was used to finalize the edges of the 6-player board on the router table
chamfering the edges of the 6-player board on the router table
chamfered edge of the 6-player board (before sanding)
some steps still missing here!
finished 6-player board in use
