hi,
I have a feeling I have seen an approx 1 sun slotted board somewhere. I tried to look for one in the online stores, but all I could find were the thin (perhaps about 1cm) boards. Any information, anyone?
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Re: slotted boards
SLotted boards are limited in thickness by the assumption they are portable. My 1" is about as much mass as I wish to carry. If I wanted to impress or intimidate or just brag, I'd bring a table board to the club. My table board is made of dense purpleheart (bragging here) and it masses like 20-30 pounds.
I have no idea what a sun is.
I have no idea what a sun is.
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Re: slotted boards
Kiseido used to sell these but their current online inventory doesn't list them. But they might be able to get one for you. They are still available, as shown on this Japanese page for the Nihon Ki-in online shop: http://item.rakuten.co.jp/nihonkiin/005b/ This board has a 19x19 grid on one side and 13x13 on the other. The price is a bit more than $80.00USD, not including shipping. The board is made of agathis wood.
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Re: slotted boards
gowan wrote:Kiseido used to sell these but their current online inventory doesn't list them. But they might be able to get one for you. They are still available, as shown on this Japanese page for the Nihon Ki-in online shop: http://item.rakuten.co.jp/nihonkiin/005b/ This board has a 19x19 grid on one side and 13x13 on the other. The price is a bit more than $80.00USD, not including shipping. The board is made of agathis wood.
So a sun is one inch? Sheesh. Now define a cubit.
An $80 dual-grid, slotted board of agathis is a good bargain. Buy it.
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Re: slotted boards
imabuddha wrote:bogiesan wrote: Now define a cubit.
Depends on who's Pharaoh at the time.
And which part of said pharaoh we was measurin'.
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Re: slotted boards
A sun is part of the old pre-metric Japanese system of measurement known as shaku-ho. See this Wikipedia page for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_u ... easurement There you will see that a sun is about 30.3 mm or 1.19 inches. So it's a little more than one inche but for a rough estimate 1 sun = 1+ inch is a reasonable rule of thumb, especially if the barley has large grains 
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Re: slotted boards
imabuddha wrote:gowan wrote:There you will see that a sun is about 30.3 cm or 1.19 inches.
Methinks you put decimal in the wrong place…
Oops! Fixed it. Should be mm, not cm
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Re: slotted boards
owh.. slotted boards is the board than can divide into two parts with same length?
btw,I'm thinking about making a board that's thin as thin just like a foldable chess. what do you think?
btw,I'm thinking about making a board that's thin as thin just like a foldable chess. what do you think?