Cribbage Board 21 – Birdseye Maple

Board #21 is laminated birdseye maple over a beautiful piece of laminated quilted maple. The peg holder cover is purpleheart with embedded magnets.

Top of the birdseye maple cribbage board, four pegging tracks and a curved profile, the maple dense with birdseye figure

Like #20, it steps away from the standard square form with a bit of curve.

Angled close-up showing the tight birdseye figure in the maple, with the START and WINNER engravings
Edge view showing the birdseye top laminated over the darker quilted-maple base
A second edge detail of the laminated maple figure

The backside peg holder uses a pocket and magnets to hold the lid in place.

The quilted-maple back with the purpleheart peg-holder lid swung open on its magnets, pegs stored underneath

Sanded to a high grit (smooth as a baby’s bottom) to bring out the figure, then finished with natural oil, a light sand, one more coat, and some hand rubbing. It really brought out the quilting and the birdseye in the maple.