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As it happens, dice is planned to be the next tutorial video!

For most games, I print in booklet mode from Acrobat Reader, then use a long-arm stapler to staple down the spine. If you don't have a long-arm stapler but you do have the kind of stapler you can open right out at the hinge (for stapling on walls, etc.), then place a two-sheet-high block of foamcore underneath the spine and staple down into it, then use a pair of pliers to hold one leg of the staple still while you use the end of a pen or something to bend the other leg down into place to close the staples on the inside of the book. For larger booklets I'll sew the spine - look around on KZfaq for bookbinding videos for tips on sewing pages together. I'll do a rulebook-assembly video at some point, but it's lower priority since a lot of people are perfectly happy to even just read the rules on a computer!

They're wood veneers, sold for marquetry - you can get small sheets this size from various sellers online (specialist shops or even eBay) pretty cheaply. I'm using plain veneers here, but you can also get them with a heat-activated glue on the back so you can just iron them down. The game board is made with pretty typical marquetry techniques - cut all the shapes to fit, tape them together on the display side with a low-tack tape (like decorator's masking tape), then glue down to a sheet with a big flat clamping caul and plenty of pressure.

It is indeed veneer! Thin ~0.5mm sheets of wood for decoration - or in this case, marking out game spaces. I didn't do a great job of it, I'd not done much veneering at this point and it turns out there's special veneer tape that doesn't require so much cleaning up afterward. The glue from the masking tape I used got forced right down into the grain by the clamping and it took far longer than it looked like it did in the video to get it all out again so I could put the finish on.

To an extent, the tutorial videos are already intended to be tips to raise the quality of people's builds - the idea is to start off with an easy option to show how it shouldn't be intimidating to get started, and anyone can have a go at PnP; then move through a more-difficult or more-time-consuming or simply more-expensive option as a "next step" option and then move on to a final "pull out all the stops" really-nice-quality option, so people who've had a go at a couple of games with the earlier methods can skill-build up. I have been planning a few "technique" videos in the tips series - things like: - how paper choice affects the quality of your print more than you might think - different options for protecting your prints and what difference they make - sticking prints down to a substrate like card or foamcore - making repeatable and accurate cuts which would be shorter, five-to-ten minute videos which aren't about a project. There will definitely be a tutorial video on tiles, mats and player boards sooner or later, but it's not so high-priority as other subjects since there's a lot of overlap with the previous boards and tokens videos - tiles are really just giant tokens or really small boards! No promises, but I would _like_ to be able to do some reviews of PnP games that cover not just whether I like the games, but also how easy or hard they were to build and what kind of choices I made along the way - it's just a bit more difficult than a regular board-game-review channel for a few reasons. There was a podcast a year or two ago which covered PnP games that I thought did a good job, but unfortunately the two people running it got too busy to continue and it ended after eleven or twelve episodes.

I believe the specific ones cut at 12:40 are the ones that got mitred for the top-side border, but they're basically the same - cut from strips of the same sheets that were just a little wider than the board is thick so there'd be a little overlap that could be trimmed then sanded down.

​@@DiningTablePrintPlayahhh awesome. Thanks a lot!