How-To: Build a Dart Board Surround to Save Your Wall
By Chuck CageThe Finished Product
Here it is, mounted and ready to go. The final tally: $50 worth of materials and a light weekend day (about 5 hours) of work. Plus, we get to play darts in the house without holes in the wall!
Update: To make it a little more “professional,” we added a dart holder on the wall beside the board. It’s just a 1″ square piece of oak with holes drilled in the top for darts and two large screws mounting it to the wall. If you want to be really fancy, you can cut a few pieces of molding trim to surround it.
September 6th, 2006 at 12:12 am
Step 1: Practice, practice, practice.
Step 2: Build dart board surround.
Step 3: Hide gazillion holes in wall from practicing with new surround.
Very detailed howto. Nicely done.
I notice, however, the screws are still philips head…
September 6th, 2006 at 9:43 am
Oh man!!
We’re SO busted on that! lol, you’re awesome Toolaremia!
~ Sean
September 6th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
I forgot a step:
Step 1.5: Act remorseful when wife/girlfriend/significant other/parent complains about gazillion holes in wall.
September 17th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
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December 30th, 2006 at 11:51 am
why not use ceiling tiles
January 9th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I was taught that it was unsafe to wear gloves when using a table saw (or other rotational power tools).
April 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Thanks for helping
June 20th, 2007 at 5:54 am
cheers for that, it will help greatly for my design and tech project
September 11th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I love this site! I was going to type something more profound but I just got a call and have to go.
But I’ll be back.
March 19th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
We build this dart board. It looks great but the darts don’t stick in the wood and just fall on the floor!!!!
September 11th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Hey Chuck,
whats the Name of the Dartboard and where did you get it from ?
Best Wishes,
Raphael
December 26th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
What kind of metal brackets were used to mount the board?