There are a surprisingly large number of places to procure cribbage drill templates. Metal Templates These folks sell metal drill templates + kits for making cribbage boards. Nice looking templates and a pretty good selection! https://chefwarekits.com/Cribbage-Board-Templates-c37148076 These folks also sell metal drill templates (best value IMHO) Search on "cribbage template" https://www.meiselwoodhobby.com While intended as a cribbage board, a Classy Cribbage board makes an excellent drill template for smaller, tighter street/peg hole spacing. It’s metal, has 10/15/20 point U-turns and a 5 point right angle turn. I made a classic 3 player CT 121 point template from it that’s only 3” wide by 9” long. With this single template, you can pretty much make any size/shape/style of template that you can think of. http://www.classycribbage.com/ Plastic Templates Go to ebay.com, search on "plastic cribbage template" www.ebay.com Rockler.com has a nice selection of self-centering style plastic drill templates although I can't, in good conscience recommend the metal pegs they sell. https://www.rockler.com/shop?w=cribbage+template&queryAssumption=correction Paper - Electronic Templates If you go with paper templates, I would recommend gluing the paper template to plastic (using a spray mount glue – available at the hardware store, Walmart, etc.) and make a plastic template rather than mounting the paper directly to the board you're drilling. I've done this many, many times and found this approach much easier and cleaner and when you're done, you've got a re-usable drill template. Cribbage Guy sells paper templates for $5.00 a pop: http://www.cribbageguy.com/templates/ Lee Valley sells a paper template as well, along with very nice brass and wood cribbage pegs. http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=32777&cat=1,250,43313 The paper board template there is $2.00. Make copies of the original and use the copy. Go to etsy.com and search on "cribbage template" www.etsy.com Homemade Templates Look for old cribbage boards (thrift stores, ebay, etc) and turn that board into a drill template. If you have access to a band saw, cut the crib board down the middle long ways – kind of if you were slicing the top off of a cake. Voila! Instant template. CNC Templates If you have LOTS of money and time to burn and are looking for another senseless way to justify your $5,000 CNC machine, you can always CNC a drill template. I looked at the video and yes, I can drill a cribbage board with one of my own drill templates faster than this CNC program can. http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/make-cribbage-board-using-cnc-router/ Roll (or Design) Your Own Templates http://www.customcribboards.com 150+ Pre-made paper templates or design your own drill templates. Very cool website. I've used it myself to get ideas for new template designs. |