Design your cribbage board

Baltic birch ply

Void-free birch plywood — the panel the whole cornhole world is built from, except ours is carved rather than printed. Pale and even, with the layered edge showing as a fine stripe.

Exterior-grade birch ply

The same panel built with waterproof glue, so it takes the weather without the plies letting go. Carves like the standard sheet and costs more.

Hard maple

Pale, close-grained and hard. The species that gives the sharpest carved detail and the strongest contrast against a dark fill — the pairing in most of our portfolio.

Sapele

A mahogany-family hardwood with an interlocked grain that shimmers as you move past it. The practical choice for outdoor work that still has to look warm.

Walnut

Deep chocolate brown, sometimes with purple and grey streaks. Takes a carve cleanly and looks expensive because it is.

White oak

The outdoor default. Its heartwood pores are blocked by tyloses — the same property that makes it watertight for barrel staves — so it shrugs off weather that ruins other woods.

Butternut

The traditional American carving wood - soft, light, and it takes deep relief more cleanly than anything else here. Pale tan with a walnut-like grain pattern.

Cherry

Warm reddish-brown that deepens with age - a cherry sign is richer in five years than the day it was made. Fine, even grain that carves crisply.

Genuine mahogany

The real thing - stable, even, and it carves like almost nothing else. The wood that made mahogany reputation, and priced accordingly.

Holly

The whitest wood there is - near-ivory with almost no visible grain. Used as inlay where a line should read as pure white rather than as pale timber.

Iroko

An African hardwood often used where teak would be, at a fraction of the price. Golden brown, weathering to silver-grey if left unfinished.

Spanish cedar

Light, aromatic and genuinely weather-resistant - the wood used for boat trim and cigar humidors. Stable enough that an exterior sign stays flat.

Wenge

Almost black, with a coarse open grain. The contrasting inlay in several pieces in our gallery - nothing else gives that depth of dark against pale maple.

Teak

The benchmark for wood that lives outdoors. Natural oils shrug off rain and rot with no finish at all, weathering to a silver-grey many people prefer.