Make a peg-solitaire board

Start from a blank workpiece

Design your own peg-solitaire board

The animation below shows drawing a peg-solitaire board from scratch in Easel. Blind holes in the hardwood board seat the stems of separate metal shelf-support pins while their wider heads remain above the surface. Start with 32 pins and the center empty; jump a pin over its neighbor into an empty seat, then remove the jumped pin. For this untested design, assume 5 mm stems and heads no wider than 8 mm. Draw a 110 × 110 mm outside profile in 12.7 mm hardwood. Add 5.2 mm circles, 6 mm deep, on 12 mm centers in seven rows of 3, 3, 7, 7, 7, 3 and 3 seats. Keep the cross centered. Each seat leaves 6.7 mm of wood below it, with 0.2 mm total stem clearance and 4 mm between the reference pin heads. Remove the outside-cut holding tabs, smooth the board and fit-test the selected pins on scrap before assembly.