Jenga

This project turned out great, is a total hit but was the most tedious project we have ever done.  The actual cutting of the jenga pieces was not the difficult part, but it was the sanding of each piece and sealing them each with three....THREE coats of polyurethane.

There are 54 pieces, 10 1/2 inches each.  Obviously you will want to find the straightest boards you can find.

We have a bunch of stain from different projects, so in an attempt to use them up we used the five different stains.  I eyeballed how many boards were used for each stain.

Then came polyurethane coat number one.  Once dried, followed with sanding:

Then polyurethane coat number two, followed by more sanding:

Then once that was dried, coat number three went on.

The ends that were face down on the cardboard go their own treatment on our work bench since the cardboard would have stuck to the bottom.

Once that was all dry and smooth we were ready to rock!



Then came the fun.  Warm summer nights, cocktails, cookouts and jenga on the patio.

Oh how this makes me dream for summer.  If you do not have your own Jenga set, this would be a great project to work on so you have it ready to go when the weather warms up!