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Jub:
Having looked at some Tripoli layouts, you can totally do this yourself with some pretty basic tools and a couple of days of free time. But I think that "building up" might be a better option than "building down." Here's one approach that might work, but feel free to ignore me:
All you'd need, really, is a piece of smooth-sided plywood, some laminate sheets, square dowelling, an angle box, a handsaw, and stain that matches the laminate sheet when staining pine, which is probably going to be what the square doweling will be made out of. And whatever you want to use to paint the information on the board.
Cut a big-ass octagon out of the plywood, apply the laminate, then just cut the square dowelling using the angle box, stain it, and glue it to the laminated plywood at the appropriate angles to make an inner octagon that radiates out to the outer octagon. Probably best to do the inner octagon and the outer octagon (outer edge of your octoganal board) first, as those'll be all the tricky joints -- you can cheat the "spokes" by putting them in the middle of the flat sides of the octagons, so all your "pie segments" will incorporate one corner instead of going from corner-to-corner).
Apply the information using a stencil kit and some model paint, or freehand if you're feeling daffy and reckless. If you went with some light laminate and a light stain, bright red model paint would look awesome. Once you're done the whole thing, varnish like a mofo to lock the paint down, seal little imperfections where the doweling meets, and give the whole thing a nice sheen.
Probably a full-weekend project, but definitely DIYable if you're game. |
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