painting crisp lines & boarder around the hole

[Chris' Cornhole]

I have a question about painting the crisp lines.

I am doing a Redsox board, solid red with a navy blue boarder and a navy circle around the hole. So my question is, what is the best way to have the crisp line in between the navy and red colors

Another suggestion I could use would be about painting the circle boarder around the hole. What is the best method to do this to make as close as a perfect cirlce?

Thanks for the help

Chris

[Milky]

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Blue tape is your best friend for those sharp lines. Many folks on here prefer to use a method we have dubbed "The Shaggy Method". Here's a link to it. http://cornholewiki.com/Shaggy_method

I don't personally use this method, but it's been done for years and years, and people love it. Follow the directions, do some searches on this site for "shaggy method", and you'll be amazed at the wealth of information you'll find.

As far as the circle around the hole, everyone seems to have a different technique. I do this:

Tape off around the hole. Take a small dinner plate and put it in the hole. Mark off around the edges. Pick up the plate and check to make sure that the lines you just marked are equidistant from the edge of the hole. If so, turn the plate over and sit it down in the marks you just made. Hold it very firm, and go around the edge with a sharp razor blade. remove the blue tape and there ya go. Let me know if that made sense. maybe I'll get some pics up for you.

Good luck with your painting.

Milky

[ozzybear9]

Paint the tape. What ever color you have under the tape, when u put the tape down if u paint over it the same color as the color underneath your tape will seal and your lines will be perfect. As for the hole I have used clear contact paper and traced the hole with a plate. Cut out what you want painted and u should be good to go.

[rucraz2]

Do you by chance have a router? I dont care for the lines around the hole myself, but if I were to do it. Depending on what width I would want the color to be? Say for instance to make it easy..a 1/2" line around the hole. I would cut a circle out in a piece of plywood that was 7 inches in diameter. Then 1/2" from the outside of that piece I would nail in a small nail or something one on each side or a few around the entire piece. To hold that piece in place. Then put that piece over the hole. The nails would hold the wood centered over the hole. Covering up 1/2" around the hole. Then have the tape already down around the hole and use an exacto or razor and just cut by tracing around the wood and wallahhh! Take out the inner tape and you have a perfect circle to paint. I use this method for a lot of the other rounded taping parts that I need to do. Makes things more precise in my mind. And my router is so easy to use for this its hard not to. I use the green frog tape myself though. Never had any issues with bleeding paint with this tape. Not the green tape you can find at stores, but actual "Frog" tape.

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[ozzybear9]

I basically use the same method as using the template. Isnt that frog tape really expensive? I use alot of tape and bought a contractors pack at Big Lots. 9 rolls for 6 bucks. If you paint the lines you get the perfect lines at a lot less cost.

[rucraz2]

Yeah the tape is a bit more pricey. But it has saved me quite a few times in the past, so I will spend the money and use it sparingly.

[cheeks]

here's what i did:
if you want a 1 1/2 inch boarder, use a compass to draw a 9 inch diameter circle on a piece of non-corrogated cardboard (like a 30 pack of beer). being extemely careful, cut it out with scissors or an exacto knife. use a drill bit of the same diameter as the pilot bit in your hole saw and drill through the center point the compass made. use a cut out made with the saw and center the pilot hole with the hole in your cardboard. staple, nail or screw the cardboard in place on the cut out. use tape to go around the cut out so it fits tightly in the hole on the board. tape around the hole, place the jig in the hole and trace.

this makes it possible to have the exact size boarder that you want, and makes it very easy to make many sets with out measuring. to change the size, just make a new one and adjust your compass normally.

i never thought about using my router. maybe you could make a less flimsy one using wood instead of cardboard. and also, since the router would make an exactly prefect circle it would elminate human error cutting the card board.

[BigDaddysBoards]

I basically use the same method as using the template. Isnt that frog tape really expensive? I use alot of tape and bought a contractors pack at Big Lots. 9 rolls for 6 bucks. If you paint the lines you get the perfect lines at a lot less cost.

YES FROG TAPE IS EXPENSIVE BUT I USE THE BLUE PAINTERS TAPE AND IT WORKS GREAT ,AS FOR THE HOLE PAINTING I TOOK THE CUTOUT FROM THE HOLE AND GLUED A 8" CIRCLE ONTO IT AND I TAPE AROUND THE WHOLE THEN USE MY CUTOUT WITH THE 8" CIRCLE TO CUT A PERFECT CIRCLE IN THE TAPE THEN REMOVE THE CUT TAPE AND PAINT IT ,LET IT DRY THEN REMOVE THE TAPE AND I HAVE GOTTEN GREAT 1" CIRCLES AROUND MY HOLES.