skoronesa
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Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends
skoronesa replied to Steph's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
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@Hoody You're welcome. @budwas Thanks for the recipes, but my main ingredient will be lack of funds. I also like to keep it authentic for lack of a better term that doesn’t make me sound like a snob. I think I might make a couple more tables, one with sifted dirt, and another with sand from that old ball field. The sand table there is actually the old door to our basement+ a pressure treated 2x4 I had extra from a project.
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Okay, several things, wet wood takes a long time to decay although yes, it would eventually rot. But I used pressure treated wood for the sides so that's fine and I would most likely make a metal pan to sit in the bottom so the water couldn't leach out. If I make a concrete surface for playing marbles it would be a table, it would be round without holes. If I wanted holes or something I would make a plywood table, depending on the type it could have virtually the same surface texture as the concrete. I could even spread a thin layer of cement making it have an actual concrete surface. I wanted a concrete circle for authenticity, to be the same as in england. If I ever get around to pouring a concrete floor I will most likely paint a circle as in new jersey for the ringer tournaments. The wood thing he has is a marble shooter, I made it. It was hastily done and one of these days I will make some nicer wooden ones. I have been thinking of a way I could make some with copper pipe.
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The last pic is us playing at the ball field which I guess our town has decided is superfluous and has let grass grow in the clay/sand. We do have 3 others for a town of only 3000. I kept those marbles in my glove box although I just replaced them with less valuable marbles. My son was surprised when I pulled them out. We were at open house at the school, we finished and were leaving when he asked if we could go home and play marbles while we had time without his brothers, I asked "why do we have to go home to play?"
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The third and fourth pictures show a game I made up. It's called "One, not two, but three". The idea is to shoot a mib into each of the three holes, taking turns, the first to do so is the winner. If you cause two marbles from the same player to be in a hole together you lose, whether you knock in yours or your opponents. If you knock in an opponents and they don't already have one in there it counts for them so you are helping them. Because of the differentiation between each players marbles you need two differently colored sets of marbles or in our case I used jabo classics and my son used dollar store marbles.
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Sorry it took so long, played on it quite a bit since we made it. You had said it must make nice trails, at first you were wrong. There we barely any trails but as the days progressed and the sand and air dried out with it getting colder here the sand became fluffier and less able to be packed so it is very slow and the trails are quite pronounced. I am actually considering either wetting it down before play or getting a different media. Pouring concrete as I mentioned was for the basement as a whole, it is a dirt floor and really needs a slab. However my first dreams of a great marble ring was painted concrete like in new jersey or a concrete ring like at tinsley green. I may still make another platform with a concrete ring. Yeah, I guess I am pretty hardcore relative to you guys. Ya bunch of phoneys, I bet you haven't knuckled down in decades!!! lolz, just kidding.
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37th Northeast Marble Meet hotel room cutoff
skoronesa replied to BobBlock's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
I made my reservation like 3 months ago Can't wait, thank you guys for setting this up and working so hard to make it come together well. -
That's the most amazing marble run/rube goldberg thing ever!!
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Yes, unfortunately we still haven't gotten the chance. We were playing on the dirt floor up until now. I really need to dig out the basement and pour a slab.
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I could totally see marble track betting, probably in asia, because pachinko.
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Yes, we will be playing marbles on it.
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Only 29 more days to the marble show in cromwell ct!!
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A very expensive house was built with a 13ft deep pool in the basement so they used some extremely fine sand, well packing, and pure under the base of the concrete for a firm base, this was extra. I have been wanting to make a table like this for quite some time. I only spent like 5 mins with a block packing and smoothing it. It was quite late so we haven't played on it yet, can't wait to do so on a non school/work night. Only took two 5 gallon buckets, still have two more. Roughly 3.5' by 4.5'.
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https://12-lvl3-pdl.vimeocdn.com/01/3839/3/94199035/250809133.mp4?expires=1469858372&token=08e8ee64b1eb610e9fc1f Just found it the other day.
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I'm likin that btk song.
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Yeah, like 2 years ago, I was reading previous posts.
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She's got some other good ones too.
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Thanks for finding it on youtube, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to download it from myspace. Are you really in that mt.migration video?
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YOU SIR have won ALL the marbles with that song. Surely whomever made that song is on here. I want to thank you for the gift you have given the marble aficionado community by making that beautiful song mam.
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Thanks for the cool music, Downloading those artists now.
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