{"id":762,"date":"2013-04-08T00:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T05:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2013-04-08T00:52:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T05:52:51","slug":"wooden-climbing-holds-and-hang-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"wooden climbing holds and hang board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climbing is fun, so is making climbing holds. Its also a good way to make good use of scrap wood.<\/p>\n

Here’s one with a finger pocket.<\/p>\n

\"drilling<\/a>
drilling holes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"the<\/a>
the drill bit does most of the carving<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"clean<\/a>
clean up the triangles with a chisel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"edges<\/a>
edges of the pocket are rounded with a chisel and a hole is drilled for a 3\/8″ washer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"an<\/a>
an interesting shape already<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because of its shape, there’s no material for the forstner bit to center on, so I cut a sacrificial piece to help the bit center until it cut deep enough.<\/p>\n

\"with<\/a>
with sacrificial block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"starting<\/a>
starting to drill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We tried some unique textures, but we decided it looked kind of gross.<\/p>\n

\"yay<\/a>
yay for dremels and dremel burrs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A belt sander quickly removes the unwanted texture. The canvas is blank again.<\/p>\n

\"belt<\/a>
belt sander to the rescue!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"the<\/a>
the fruits of our afternoon labors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On a different day, I also made a hangboard. Forgot to take any in-progress photos – sorry, but below is the final product. The pockets were made by drilling a line of holes with a forstner bit and then cutting away the rest with a chisel. I then used a 1\/4″ radius router bit to round all the edges. I don’t have a router yet, so I (ab)used my drill press as a router. This mostly worked because pine is so soft.<\/p>\n

The sloped holds on the top are 2×4’s cut on a compound miter saw and covered in \u00a0some grip tape material, which is like sandpaper with adhesive on the back – like what is on skateboards. All the pieces are glued and screwed to a piece of 3\/4″ plywood.<\/p>\n

To mount it to my wall, I bolted some 2×4 rails into the studs of the house, and then screwed the hangboard to those rails.<\/p>\n

\"completed<\/a>
completed hangboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Climbing is fun, so is making climbing holds. Its also a good way to make good use of scrap wood. Here’s one with a finger pocket. Because of its shape, there’s no material for the forstner bit to center on, so I cut a sacrificial piece to help the bit center until it cut deep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[48,56,112,116,118,225],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amymakesstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/img_2731.jpg?fit=800%2C576&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amymakesstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}