Peg-leg vs full side piece cornhole boards

What type of cornhole board should you get, or is best to play on? There seem to be two distinct types of cornhole boards being made and played on these days. The peg leg style which uses fold away wooden legs in the back to create the right incline for the board. Which BTW is created by the front of the board rising 2.5 inches and the back rising a foot. The full side piece boards are constructed with solid sides. The following pictures illustrate the concept.

The peg-leg style has one key advantage over the full side piece design. It is more portable. The legs fold up so the boards can easily be placed together for easy carrying. This makes them pretty nice for people that own cars with very limited trunk space or who expect to have to carry the boards by hand for long distances.

The full side piece design comes with it’s own advantages. Full side piece cornhole board design allows for the side pieces to be painted which can look really stunning particularly with custom artwork. Full side piece boards also tend to be more stiff, i.e less bounce which makes for better game play. The biggest advantage of the full side piece boards though is more subtle; it is much easier to get the score right and prevents opportunistic cheating.

The ACA official cornhole game rules state that the only way to get at a bag that has gone in the hole should be through the hole. The reason for this is because you don’t want bags that actually missed the board sliding under it and getting counted as a hole.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both designs. You really have to think about what is important to you and make the right move.

Wrap-around custom paint job

People are getting demanding with the paint jobs they consider for custom cornhole boards. These are damn cool though I have to admit. The design work and the paint job takes forever when you put together boards like these. The full gallery is here on this facebook cornhole boards fan page.

Front view of paint job

The paint job from the side now

Chitowns Improved How to Build a Custom Cornhole Board – Part 2 of 4

Since our first cornhole hole construction video series we have had a mountain of questions and feedback. In fact we have had well over 100,000 views of the cornhole construction series. So we decided to release another series, and it has taken us a while, but here is the second part of the improved instructional video on how to build custom cornhole boards. If you need more info you can visit the Chi-town custom cornhole boards website. Remember, we are building a tailgate sized board here. For a full sized board just updated the measurements and use the same techniques. Feel free contact us or visit the site for more information on that.

How to build custom cornhole boards – complete video series

I have been covering the video series on making custom cornhole boards for a while now.  The full series is finally finished and all the videos covering the full construction of a set of custom cornhole boards are here.

In this series of videos they go through basic techniques required to construct a set of custom cornhole boards. Tom, master carpenter, walks the builder through the initial cuts to the finishing touches. So far a number of people have used these videos from YouTube to create sets with success.

Hand painted beach boards from chitown custom cornhole

How to build a custom cornhole board video – Part 3

Tom from Chi Town Custom Cornhole walks the DIY custom cornhole board builder through the steps to making a custom cornhole board. Part one features preparation and initial cuts. Part two puts the all important side pieces together to regulation specs. All videos in the series can be found at the cornhole game board site. This video, Part 3, give instruction on how to size, cut, and attach the front and back peices of the cornhole board.