Building new Cornhole Boards...UPDATED-started painting

[USFishin]

wow, those are nice.  Did you have a stencil for the letters?

Here's how I did it:

I designed the layout in photoshop.  Then I printed it out full size (24x48) at work (it's an engineering firm and we have a wide document plotter for drawings).  Then I took some clear contact paper and taped it down over the printout.  I then traced the logo out with a fine sharpie.  After I was done painting the board all the colors I layed the contact paper logo down in the correct position and taped everything off.  Then I cut the logo out with an xacto knife.  I pulled the laminate paper off of where the gold portion of the logo will be.  Sprayed the whole logo with a quick coat of white one last time (using "Shaggy's painting method").  Then I sprayed the gold down.  Then I taped over the gold I just painted so that it won't get any more paint on it and pulled the contact paper up that was covering where the green will be.  Then I sprayed another coat of white over where the green will go (same method).  Then I sprayed the green.  Let it dry for a little bit and then pulled all the contact paper and tape off.  What remained was a perfect logo.  I let it dry for a day or 2 then I put about 5 coats of polycrylic on it using an HVLP sprayer.  I let those dry overnight.  Then I quickly wet sanded it with some 400 grit paper.  Then I sprayed one last coat of polycrylic.

[mikebeau]

those are ridiculous

[USFishin]

lol, thanks!

[Bull Martin]

Those are definitely top notch.  Two sets of what look like professional Corn hole boards.

That's really a fantastic job to both of you!  Where can we put down our orders?

[USFishin]

I don't think my wife would want me spending all that time making another set.  

[Apis Bull]

I still think someone should make a, "TheBullsPen.com" one with our bull logo and donate it to the board to be auctioned off.   ;D

[KB]

I don't think my wife would want me spending all that time making another set.  

No offense to other USF cornhole boards, but those are unreal.

How much time did it take you?

[USFishin]

Depends on who you ask... my wife.. forever I never really added it up.  I probably spent 5 or so hours building them.  Then an hour or two puttying them (filling in the holes).  Then probably 2/3 hours sanding them.  I shoulda bought pre-sanded plywood, just got regular.  Probably 10-15 between tracing out the logo, cutting out the logo, taping off, and painting.  Then probably 3-4 hours for all the polycrylic coats and sanding before the final coat.  I might be underexaggerating a little bit.  Probably somewhere between 30-40 hours.  I just worked on it for a couple hours in the evenings that I had some time to work on it for a couple weeks.

[mikebeau]

your colors look better than the glidden team colors

[USFishin]

I looked all over for the correct colors and couldn't find them anywhere.  The green was easy, just "Hunter Green."  Everybody makes that, but the gold was the problem.  I couldn't find it anywhere.  Then one day at Walmart I went and checked their selection and they actually had 2 different spray paints that were VERY close.  So I bought 2 cans of each color and just took back the one that I didn't use.  I ended up using the one called "Champagne Nouveau" (I am like 99% sure that's what it's called).