How to Make a Fingerboard Picnic Table

Having a picnic table for your fingerboard can give you multiple options for performing various tricks. You can grind on the edges of the seats or table-top with your trucks, or you can slide on them with different parts of your deck. A fingerboard picnic table could also be used as something to do tricks over, or even onto the seats or table-top. You can add a picnic table to your fingerboard skate park and customize it the way you want with just some cardboard and a hot glue gun.

Instructions

Making the Pieces

1

Sketch a 3-inch by 6-inch rectangle on a piece of paper. Measure 2 inches in from each of the bottom corners of the 6-inch side and make a mark. Draw a 5-inch by 4-inch rectangle going upwards using the space in between your two marks as the base. Cut along the outside edges of your outline to use as a template.

2

Trace your template onto a thick piece of cardboard two times and cut each of them out to use as the picnic table frames.

3

Draw a 2-inch by 6-inch and a 4-inch by 6-inch rectangle onto a piece of paper and cut each of them out.

4

Trace the 2-inch by 6-inch rectangle onto a thick piece of cardboard two times and cut each one out to use as the seats for the picnic table. Trace the 4-inch by 6-inch rectangle and cut it out as well to use as the table-top.

Putting Everything Together

5

Measure in a half-inch from both ends of your 2-inch by 6-inch rectangles, longways, and make a mark.

6

Apply a line of hot glue to one side where you made your mark and stick the picnic table seat on one of the 2-inch edges of one of your frames, holding it firmly in place until the glue dries. Repeat this step again for the other side of the seat and attach it to the other picnic table frame. Use this same procedure for the other seat as well.

7

Measure in a half-inch from both ends of your 4-inc by 6-inch rectangle, longways, and make a mark. Apply a line of hot glue across the table-top where you made your marks and stick it on top of the picnic table frame. Hold it firmly in place, keeping it straight, until the glue dries.