Honestly, the cornhole boards available at the local box stores are crap. These are quality hand made regulation sized boards . 4” tall in the front and 12” in the rear, they sit flat and stout with no bounce. Nor is it a piece of plywood screwed onto a 2 x 4. They are half inch Baltic Birch mounted inside a mortised hard Maple frame so there are no exposed plywood edges. Painted with a urethane based enamel and finished with a poured epoxy resin top coat. Durable enough to survive a lifetime of tailgating and backyard parties.
Mortised sides allows for the plywood to sit inside a solid Maple frame.
The plywood sits inside the Maple sides, such that the edges are solid Maple rather than the exposed plywood edges.
Maple is a beautiful durable wood
Most my lumber is locally harvested and milled, right here in Northern Indiana / Southern Michigan. Here Silver Maple is plentiful and often called 'soft' Maple, in comparison to Sugar (hard) Maple, which is among the hardest, densest woods in North America. It is not soft; it is a hard, dense wood. Substantially harder than Yellow Pine and comparable to Walnut or Cherry, just under Oak.
It is the character of the wood that i like most. Its wavy grain patterns with different shades of brown and tan, blue streaks of Ambrosia like in the second photo, it's a beautiful wood that I enjoy working with.
1/2 inch plywood, not 3/4 inch ?
The Maple frame provides the boards with the density and strength to resist the lateral forces of tossed bags without movement and serves a secondary purpose of keeping the top flat, preventing the plywood from warping during outdoor use.
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