What Are the Best Woods to Make Chess Sets Out of?
The answer depends on which part of the set you mean, because a chess set is at least three products in one: the pieces, the board and the box. They have different requirements and they are rarely made from the same timber. There is also a legal dimension that most guides ignore. Several of the […]
Can I use a wooden paddle for pickleball?
Yes, by the rules of the game. Pickleball’s equipment rules do not name a material, and the first paddles ever used, in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, were plywood. A wooden paddle is a legal paddle. Whether you can use one in a tournament is a different question with a different answer, and the gap between […]
Pucket Game: The Next Big Thing in Wooden Garden Games?
Pucket — also sold as sling puck, fast sling puck and ice puck — is a two-player wooden dexterity game with an elastic cord, a set of pucks and a gate in the middle of the board. It is one of the few games in the category that is genuinely tense to watch, because a […]
Understanding Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs) in the Wooden Garden Games Industry
A minimum order quantity is the number of units a factory needs before it will start a production run. Buyers usually experience it as an obstacle. It is more useful to understand it as a price mechanism, because that is what it actually is: the point at which the fixed cost of setting up a […]
Is Finding the Perfect Supplier Like Playing Connect 4 Blindfolded?
Sourcing a supplier is often described as a search problem: find more candidates, compare more quotes, and the right one will emerge. It is not a search problem. It is a verification problem, and the candidates are not the scarce resource – reliable information about them is. Most buyers do not fail because they could […]