How to Build a Regulation Cornhole Set

We’re all looking for fun things to do at home. Why not put your woodworking prowess to work and build a regulation cornhole set so that you and your family and friends can enjoy hours of entertainment?

The American Cornhole Association (Yes, they actually have one of those.) states that a regulation cornhole set must be a four-foot by two-foot rectangle made from half-inch plywood platforms, sitting twelve inches off the ground. You can purchase a set of eight corn bags made from duck canvas and filled with two cups of corn feed online pretty inexpensively. Now it’s game time…

First cut your plywood to size. You’ll want to mark nine inches down from the top and twelve inches in from the sides to find the center and cut your six-inch circular hole. Then cut down a two-by-four and use three-inch screws to create your frame. Place your plywood sections on top and fasten them with one and five-eighths-inch screws. Cut and affix legs so that the front of your platform stands two and a half to four inches off the ground and the back of your platform is twelve inches tall.

Now it’s time to have some fun. To take things up a notch and trick out your cornhole set, sand it and putty all your screw holes. Prime it and re-sand it and then…wait for it…paint some cool, high gloss images on it – like racing stripes, a bullseye, gator teeth around the hole or make it camo to confuse your opponents (maybe only that one friend…you know the guy).

As always, you can get any quality, affordable lumber you need at M & M Enterprises, your local lumber yard. Game on!

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