A Lengthy Disclaimer about Enumero Drill Templates
( PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING TEMPLATE(S) )
The “hole” reason to buy a drill template is to give your own cribbage boards a reasonably good
looking and consistent hole pattern. If you try and free-hand drill several hundred holes, you very
quickly find out that it’s kind of a pain and it probably looks kind of funky.
If you find yourself measuring an Enumero template with a Vernier Caliper to
find hole alignment inconsistencies at +/- a few hundredths of an inch,
I can pretty much guarantee you will be successful.
And thus, you should look elsewhere for a Cribbage Template.
All the cribbage boards I make and sell are made are made with my own
templates – exactly the same templates you can buy.
By in large, the template hole alignment on the templates I sell
is pretty good, if not just perfectly fine.
I’ve seen commercially made boards (i.e. Drueke) where the holes
wander all over the place so I can't really
say what the standard for hole alignment should be.
All the templates that I sell are “cloned” from either CAD metal templates OR are
made from a parts of a CAD metal template and I fill in the blanks – in order to create new designs of templates.
Some templates I sell are denoted as “FREE HAND”. This means that no metal CAD template was used in
creating/cloning the template. I pretty much drilled it free hand. I do this because I like to try and
come up with new template designs – both for my own boards and for selling new templates.
The numeric "29" and "19" drill templates are good examples of this.
The templates I sell are NOT made on a CAD system.
For uber-precise hole alignment, this is where computers excel past their human overlords.
In fact, I have come across more than one person who sells cribbage boards (not templates)
made from plastic and are VERY precisely drilled on a CAD drilling system.
And these boards also cost upwards of $200 because CAD drilling systems are very pricey!
I drill all templates using a drill press and drill bit made just for drilling plastic, cloning them from
existing templates. Unfortunately, I don’t have a CAD drilling system to do my bidding for me.
Finally, the templates I sell do NOT work with self-centering drill bits.
They are meant to work with 1/8” or 3/16” bits and be drilled directly. Rockler.com sells
two styles of cribbage drill templates that do work with self-centering drill bits.
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