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Plywood racket (thelemmy.club)
submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by luftruessel@feddit.org to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

Building a racket

I needed a racket for some tennis like sport. Since the sport is kind of local to my area, there is only few offers for these rackets, and some have quite high waiting times. Since they are made from plywood anyway, I decided to make it myself.

The melamin plywood I picked was a pain to work with, and I fiddled quite a bit with tape on the wood, drill speeds and everything, to avoid tearing the surface. I still did on the back, propably pushing too hard, so I scraped off the first layer. The clean black melamin would have looked better I think, but at some point I got so annoyed that I'm happy I was able to make it at least look decent.

scraped backside

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[-] ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago

Is that a Speckbrett?

[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I'm probably weird for this but I think the scuffs in the black backside actually look really pretty with the way the wood-tone scuffs contrast with the black

[-] blarghly@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago

some tennis like sport

It's okay OP. We all know what this is for 😏

[-] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I already saw you mom's hiney

It's a different racket.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 points 11 hours ago

Did you put another piece of wood underneath to drill into? That should prevent the tearing on the underside

[-] luftruessel@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I tried tape only, locating it above one and the same hole on my drill press. But the idea of tightly clamping on a piece of wood came afterwards as well. Will definitely try this - should I ever decide to make another one.

[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 10 points 15 hours ago
[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Pickles and balls are often present

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

But, how did the balls get above the pickle?

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago
[-] luftruessel@feddit.org 27 points 15 hours ago

Close I would say. Never played pickleball so I can't point out the exact differences, but this is for 'Speckbrett'. There is no proper english term (baconboard would be the literal translation I guess lol) and it is very local to the Münsterland - an area in Germany. It is like a cheap tennis I would say - the weird rackets originated from cutting boards. And you play with a tennis ball, not a plastic ball.

[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 11 points 14 hours ago

I hope it serves you well!

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago

I was going to guess platform tennis. It's played with a racket like that and with a tennis ball, but the court is very small and enclosed with the walls in play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_tennis

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