DIY Whiteboard

I’ve been stressing over the cost of a whiteboard for a while, on the one hand they really help with productivity especially when working with other people, but on the other hand they are a basic construction and shouldn’t be as expensive as they are.  Even online the places where you can get them for cheap get pricey on the larger sizes and the shipping is a killer.I started researching how to make one myself, it turns out I wasn’t alone with this idea and I found plenty of examples of alternatives and successfully built boards.

The best example came from the good people at Kicker Studio, where they wrote up a nice instruction manual that I found very useful, check it out.  With the guide in hand I decided to get off my ass and make one. It only took a few hours to put it together today, and I’m very satisfied.  You’ll never find a 8×4 whiteboard for $50 in a store.  Next step is to pick up some J-Channel molding to smooth the edges so the board can’t get dented.

Hopefully, this will help me finish some of those dead projects mentioned previously.

Life lessons:

• Tools are expensive, but worth buying because they’re a one time cost and nothing sucks more then not having the tool to do a job.
• If you own a small car always befriend someone that owns a pickup truck, it will come in handy.
• Contact cement is dangerous: keep it (and it’s fumes) away from any flames, and wear a mask when using it.