Crokinole Boards Comparison Review

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Practical Guide for Crokinole Geeks
Elwis Szypulski
August 2011
Elwis Szypulski
Boards Comparison, Page 1
INTRODUCTION
As I have lately mentioned, we wanted this review to be especially helpful to
European (but not only) interested in buying a decent crokinole board. I
would like to make them know about boards by themselves and about many
aspects of purchase as well. I hope it will simplify your choices and help you
in avoiding some disappointments. This is why I haven't limited it only to the
features of a given board, but I extended it by parts: Selection, Service and
Costs.
Our review consists of following parts:
I Selection
II Service: Availability, Delivery Time, Quality of Contact, Packing and
Adjusting Claims and Requests.
III Costs: Board Price, Transport Price, Additional Costs.
IV Board: First Glance - Esthetics, Stability, Quality of the Playing surface,
Posts/Pegs, Ditch and Rail, Discs.
V Recapitulation
All elements of the review's parts are separately rated, so you can take into
consideration only these aspects you are interested in. I used 1-5 grade range
which:
1 means crap,
2 - poor,
3 - average,
4 - good,
5 - great.
I SELECTION
At the beginning of the boards selection for the club we skipped all boards we
couldn't find enough feedback about them in the "industry" and crokinole
world, also boards with too many negative reviews from users, and boards
which didn't fulfill other criteria of selections like: tournament shape and
size. So, we excluded among others:
- Jaques London Deluxe (too less feedback, traditional size)
- Octagonal Crokinole from www.carrom.it,(too less feedback, traditional
size)
- The Crokinole Shop (no replies for inquiry)
- Dave and Norman Lagasse Pichenotte (no boards available)
- Mayday Games (too many bad reviews, pre order availability, some failures
on available boards).
- Thomas Corre Crokinole Standart Board.
I will come back to the two last ones in this text soon.
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First we wanted to try any of Hilinski Standard Boards, which seemed to be
the most beautiful, kind of piece of art stuff. Price is 200 CAD. Hilinski
brothers replied for our inquiry that they were no longer doing international
shipping due to the very high cost.
Our second object of desire was Mr.Crokinole's Eagle quite expensive board:
275 CAD. Wayne Kelly wrote us that Mr. Crokinole was simply overwhelmed
with requests worldwide. He gave me a suggestion to contact his cooperator
from F rance - Thomas Cor re, whose work you can check on
www.crokinole.fr. Wayne Kelly had also promised me to check if I was glad,
but he forgot.
I was corresponding with Thomas. All in all I gave up his boards because he
had no Tournament shape boards at hand, however I must admit that they
look interesting and decent. They can be considered especially by someone
who likes octagonal shape crokinoles or at least doesn't care about shape and
its routered lines on the playing surface. This kind of lines looks nice but
someone could find it controversial because they probably affect the travel of
a disc passing over them. Although shape of the board is traditionally
octagonal, size of a playing surface is still large as at tournament boards
(66cm). Additional advantages are: competitive price for such a hand made
board, and Mr.Crokinole recommendation. Shipping cost to Denmark, for
example, is 55 Euros.
After many weeks of seeking, experiences, analyzing, staying in touch with
some helpful people from Canada, Germany and other countries, we could
ascertain that the following boards were ultimate for our club:
- Muzzies Tournament
- Tischlerei Knels - Jeske Wintersonne
- Willard PRO
Muzzies Tournament Board (Blomelain Version)
Murray from Muzzies has joined the first League of Crokinole makers and
he's being in vogue recently.
Tischlerei Knels - Jeske Wintersonne
Jeske and his wife Betina continue making boards in Germany, which already
have being made for several years.
Willard PRO
Willard Martin has been making crokes for many years, he continues 40years tradition of crafting Crokinole boards in Martin family. He is a longstanding World Crokinole Championship supplier. Our review of Willard PRO
could actually refers to WCC Board, because it's done to WCC specification.
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All features and materials are exactly the same, the only differences are
colors: of ditch, "20"hole, lines and logos.
These are the main competitors of our comparison, which reached the final.
There are some differences you could be interested in being learned of.
Both of our Canadian choices: Muzzies and Willard, unlike Mr.Crokinole and
Hilinski, were ready for international cooperation.
Now I am sharing our observations after several months of playing on them
and being in touch with board makers.
If someone read our thread he knew that I was requested by Mayday Games
to include their board in our review. I wanted to collate their new Premium
Hardwood Tournament Board model with our main competitors. I haven't
received all answers for my questions to support the idea (like lending a
board for the review, costs, etc.). All the same I took a trip to Warsaw for
invitation of Mayday Games distributor in Poland - Piotr Burzykowski but he
hadn’t Premium Hardwood then. However by courtesy of him I could take a
careful look on the original Tournament boards. Although we don't possess
Mayday Game at our club, after several weeks of wait the owner of Mayday
Games made me know about possibility of purchasing Premium Hardwood
with a discounted price. I decided to buy this better model of Mayday Games
Board to share my thoughts with you on it and keep it, if it was good. So, this
board is added to comparison as wild card competitor.
II SERVICE
1. Availibility
Tournament - although Murray was busy, our first board was ready to
dispatch after our inquiry: 5 pts.
Wintersonne - ready for shipping right away. We ordered twice, and both
times was at hand. It's given 5 pts.
PRO - both times ready to dispatch, score: 5 pts.
Premium Hardwood - It wasn’t available at the moment we asked about it,
but after 4 weeks. 2 pts for that.
2. Delivery time
Tournament - dispatched immediately. We ordered Air Shipping. Note on
Canadian Post statement was Priority Worldwide, however they replied it
was actually XpressPost (should be 4 days in Denmark). All in all I received
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it in 11 days, after custom procedure. No Muzzies fault, but too long for the
price. Economy parcel - see Willard. I give it 3 pts.
Wintersonne - sent quickly, board received within 1 week, twice, cool for
impatient. 5 pts.
PRO - exactly 6 weeks of waiting included custom procedure. 3 pts for
Willard.
Premium Hardwood - like in the case of Wintersonne we got it in 1 week,
because it was shipped out from warehouse in Germany, fine: 5 pts.
3. Quality of Contact
Tournament - very, very good. You could exchange information even several
times a day if you need information in spite of different time-zones. He was
tracking my parcel during shipment. 5 points for Murray.
Wintersonne - for people speaking German probably contact would be one
level better, but English were good enough at our both sides to make a deal.
Although once I tried calling them and there was no answer, they also had
some problems with e-mail, but generally was no problem in confirming
purchase details. In my opinion: 4 pts.
PRO - perfect. you can talk via phone, Skype or receive several e-mails if
needed. Willard devotes time to his customers, nothing but 5 pts is left to
rate.
Hardwood Premium - the owner kept some of my questions open, sometimes
I had to wait longer for an answer, and waited 1 week for transfer-purchase
confirmation, but he made me know about shipping out enclosing tracking
number. I mark it - 2.75.
4. Packing
Tournament - although there was no inside or outside damage, but the way it
was packed I could't call very safe for international delivery. - 4 pts, because
nothing happened.
Wintersonne - nice packed. German functional minimalism. The Boards were
secured with styrofoam from each side. I give 5 pts.
PRO - unconventional way of packing, but very effective. Planks and rags as
secure materials :-) 5 points.
Hardwood Premium - Double cardboard, with a paper corner fillers were
good enough to save the article. 4.5 pts for MG.
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5. Adjusting Claims and Requests
Tournament - Murray saved me 100 CAD on his own initiative! He sent me
money back he managed from Canadian Post for special delivery, because
they hadn't fulfill on time delivery guarantee. It is shining example of good
service. I have a hole in my crokinole at request I got more than I expected. 5
pts.
Wintersonne - I received lacking number of discs and different kinds of
rubber for pegs for free. Rate: 4.5.
PRO - Willard bared all the costs for unexpected issue and saved me as a
customer. Hi is a reliable businessman. he is opened for suggestions and
offers help and advice. I give 5 pts.
Premium Hardwood - Well, it is a long story. At the very beginning I had
played straight with Seth before I ordered the board making him know that I
wanted to avoid some failure-related troubles, but I didn’t. I failed a claim (6
issues!) because in my opinion this board was not fit for sale and play, but
Seth seemed not to understand this fact. There were some ridiculous
proposals, excuses and tips in first reply instead of proposal of exchanging
good or refund. Among the others: minor imperfections of a top notch board,
self fixing, offer to purchase some parts to the board, careful look, etc. which I
found objectionable. After my unequivocal refusal Seth asked me to sand the
board to a new “home” (???) and promised a full refund. It took many e-mails
and some photos to finish this farce. I have just received some spare parts,
which should fit the board. I doubt if it was an isolated case, because he
published my reservations and the answers for them on the product website
as FAQ right away. 2 pts is the most I can mark.
The Summary of the Part:
For Service Part from European point of view: 1. Tischlerei Knels - Jeske
Wintersonne - 23,5 pts, 2. Willard PRO - 23.5 pts, 3. Muzzies Tournament 22 pts. Mayday Games Hardwood Premium - 16.25 pts.
Because not everything is up to our crokinole makers (f.e. long distance
delivery), points from 2. depending actually on our location, can be skipped if
you are very patient person or if you live beyond Europe.
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III COSTS
1. Cost of the boards
Tournament - Cost of the board (game pieces, drawstring bag and instruction
included) - 169 CAD = 125 €*. Best price for handmade board. 5 pts for
Muzzies.
Wintersonne - (game pieces, drawstring bag and instruction included) - 166
€. Well, it isn't cheap by itself compering to other offers and its competitors. 3
pts.
PRO - 179 CAD (game pieces and instruction included, drawstring bag not
included +4,50 CAD) = 133 €, which is very good price for a Tournament
board per se. (vide WCC Board or Eagle) - 4.50 pts.
Premium Hardwood - It is again fuzzy case. Although I receive this board for
discounted price, the price on company website is 149,95 USD (104 €), but
the owner says the retail price in the USA is 135 USD (94 €). Actually I
couldn’t find any info about sale of Hardwood Premium on European
distributors websites. Analogizing to prices from company website - its price
should be a little higher than price of original Tournament Board which costs
in Poland 94 €, in Germany 129.90 €, but at Essen 150 €, in England 125.5 €.
I am confused, but give 4.5 pts assuming that board is free from failures.
2. Delivery cost to Denmark (shipping + custom duty/import tax).
Tournament - standard delivery- 95 CAD = 69 € we add to mentioned price.
it's not the end, unfortunately buying board from Canada we from EU should
assume additional fee: custom duty/import tax. We payed it in every case. It
was about 30% of the sum of 125 € and 69 €. So overall delivery cost for
Muzzies Tournament board is 69 € + 58 €* = 127 €. Taking into consideration
many offers for transport, and for tax duty I would give 6.25 pts all together
out of 10.
Wintersonne - Its shipping cost is only 42 € and it's free from custom duty/
import tax. Overall delivery cost is 42 €. It is rated 4.25 pts for transport and
5 pts for lack of tax = 9.25 pts.
PRO - I had to pay 103 CAD (75 €) for delivery from Canada and 68 € of
import tax. All delivery cost was 143 € for single board. Then my overall rate
is 6 pts.
Premium Hardwood - Price range: from 28 € (England) - 78 € (Poland),
average shipping cost: 53.5 €. So, it would be 3.75 pts + 5 pts for no tax
obligation = 8.75 pts.
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* All amounts in € for import tax were converted from DKK. They may differ
a bit from rates in various EU countries.
Summery of the part:
Cost round overall would be for Premium Hardwood - 13.25 pts, 2nd place for
Wintersonne from Tischlerei Knels - Jeske - 12 pts, 11.25 pts and 3rd placer
for Muzzies Tournament, and 4th for Willard PRO - 10.5 pts, but the most
interesting part is yet to come.
IV BOARDS BY THEMSELVES
1. First Glance - Esthetics
Muzzies Tournament.
In Blomelain version is eye candy, you going to be convinced at the moment
you open box. The base and side rail unlike the others is made of solid maple.
Plywood of playing surface is also very nice and thick. Brass pegs on inner
circle look stylish. There is no failure on the item. You can see the place from
bird's eye view where two ends of rail were joined, however it's not an issue.
The board is pleasant to the touch. There is a key hole on the back side made
at my request for hanging.
5 pts for Muzzies.
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Tischlerei Knels - Jeske Wintersonne.
Our second competitor represents more "industrial" esthetics. You can see
silver color screws inside transparent latex tubes, but supplier announces on
website it is brass. They are O.K. but nothing fancy. Plywood of playing
surface is thinner then at other rivals. You also can notice different approach
of making rail and back. Lines on playing surface are black and contrast to
light surface. They are rather wide and put on before lacquer layers are put.
We see here and there places where craftsman finishes a painting move.
Playing surface is finished with birch veneer.
I haven't found a failure in any of our boards of that model.
At the beginning I give Wintersonne 4.25 pts.
Willard PRO.
From the moment you take hold of it you feel you deal with something
serious.
It is built like a tank. I like its color. Emerald green of a ditch, 20 hole and
lines seems to be well matched to a billard game. Lines are thinner than on
other boards. They are nice and precise. Light color of playing surface
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appearances pleasant with black posts. Plywood is made of Russian Baltic
Birch. All elements seem to be a bit thicker then at standard board. Willard
PRO looks like a big billard game reduced to table-top size. 5 pts is how I rate
its appearance.
Willard Pro
Premium Hardwood.
This edition was to be much improved over original in terms of quality.
Actually board looks a bit toyish in comparison to other reviewed boards. But
the main issue is that it’s also shoddy made. As soon as you pick it up It
starts creaking. Too small holes for pegs (or vice versa), unevenness of the
ditch, not properly screwed in bottom (sticking out screws), gaps in plywood,
not properly cut veneer at 20’s hole are clearly visible and should be a
subject of complain. Supplier enclose wooden box for pieces, with a scoring
track on it, but scoring pegs don’t fit them.
Quality rescue call: Mayday!Mayday!
The board is built mostly of MDF. The underside looks different, not to say
strange and “cheaper” than underside of the others. In my opinion lines
shouldn't be painted directly on top of the surface. Really Deep 20’s hole with
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convex bottom also stands out. It is to make taking out of discs easier, but I
find it to be controversial.
Another vague matter is the surface. Mayday Games in Boardgamegeek and
Ryan Metzler in his video review claim that the surface is indeed real wood,
not sticker or veneer applied on the wood:
http://boardgamegeek.com/image/962844/crokinole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1QCTMkK3tE
The surface of my board is a kind of “sticker veneer”, which is conspicuous
on the first pic. bellow.
To be honest I doubt my version is the Premium Hardwood edition, if it is
indeed you wouldn’t call it Premium either Hardwood. The board I received
seems to be very similar to previous edition boards I tried in Poland, and
different than Hardwood Premium boards from the website or review. I
shared my doubts (and photos) with a supplier, but haven’t received any
matter-of-fact reply.
On the next page you find another pictures referring to my explicit
assessment.
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Closing this topic I give 1.5 pts.
Not finished 20’s hole and
“sticker Veneer”
Sticking out screws
Many of places with gaps inside
plywood
worthless tracking score
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2. Stability
Muzzies Tournament. It’s not a
light board. Thanks to it. it’s quite
stable, however there is no feet
attached to the underside.
4.5 pts is a grade for it.
Wintersonne. The weight of this
board is a little heavier than
Muzzies Tournament, but
manufacturer installed three metal
feet. It could scratch a table or
move while playing on its very slick
surface, but frankly speaking it
didn’t happen unless we accidently
hit it. 4 pts for stability of
Wintersonne
Willard PRO. This one represents
heavy weight of crokinole boards.
Additionally three rubber feet
attached to the underside protect it
from moving. It deserves 5 pts
Premium Hardwood. This board is
the the lightest from the starters
and you can’t find any feet when
you turn it over but we haven’t
noticed any problems while
playing. 4 pts for this board.
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3. Quality of the playing surface.
Muzzies Tournament
The playing surface of our first competitor is really smooth and nice. It brings
you fine “gameplay”. We used it in many conditions. For example we played it
outdoor and it was exposed to the action of the sun, but protected by wax. It
seems to be a little bit more sensitive to weather conditions and unevenness
of discs than other main opponents. Murray doesn’t recommend using any
granular wax on it. Particular care will definitely help you in keeping board’s
good action. 4.25 pts for Murray.
Wintersonne
This board made a very nice impression on us in terms of playing surface.
Pucks glide on it pleasantly, producing a nice swoosh. An smoothness is
consistent all over its surface. It keeps good action for a long time before you
have to wax it again. However Jeske accepts a powder to speed up shots, but
you can believe me it’s not necessary, especially when you applies good wax
on the surface. We haven’t noticed any failure on our boards. European
manufacturer deserves 5 pts.
Willard PRO
I have to admit after first touch I had an impression its surface couldn’t be so
slick as Wintersonne or Muzzies Tournament, but after couple of flicks I got
to appreciate it. It leaves no doubt why this board is used in many canadian
Tournaments including World Crokinole Championship. I like the sound of it
while playing. The board gives even slides all over the surface. The result of
using shuffle board on it is awesome: NHL on the board. 5 pts. for Willard.
Premium Hardwood
It’s barely playable without waxing. Flicked pucks slow down inconsistently.
It definitely requires waxing regardless of the assurance in the article
description on Maydaygames website: ”...ensure your board is ready to go
out of the box “. Waxing improves moves, however its playing surface is still
not so consistent and predictable as the other boards. I give it 1.5 pts for for
the surface before preparing and 4 pts for action after it : 2.75 pts. overall.
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4. Posts
Muzzies Tournament
Murray supplies you with two kinds of pegs: brass and rubber. They are
attached really straight. Metal ones give nice sound and bounce,
but if you modify them with a rubber you must get used to them again,
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it’s a whole another thing. Rubber Posts are less “forgiving”, they rebounds
even stronger and strikingly different, but still properly. I rate them 4.5 pts
for action and possibility of choice.
Wintersonne
In this case you receive transparent latex tubes put on metal pegs - screws.
The manufacturer asserts on his website they are brass, but I doubt.
He can supply you with another two different black tubes at request.
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One kind of them is scabrous and provides like metal rebound, another is
more slick but a little to thin for us. We have decided to keep original ones
because of being the most similar to tournament standards we are interested
in. I give them 4.5 pts.
Willard PRO
The pegs of this board are the thickest of all. They consist of brass screws and
black latex tubes put on them. These posts produce consistent response,
which is bouncy, predictable and sounds nice.
The rate: 5 pts.
Premium Hardwood
As you can see on the picture below they don’t fit the holes. If I follow a tip of
the supplier and trim the pegs I would wrestle with wider part of them
twisting and pressing down to fit the holes. Even if they were ok, in my
opinion Premium Hardwood in terms of pegs response didn’t stand a
comparison with competitors. Posts of that board are made of wood. Some
might say that it is a matter of taste and becoming accustomed, but
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particularly their response is barely predictable and reduces joy of
game.
2 pts for Mayday Games board.
5. Ditch and Rail
Muzzies Tournament
The rim of that board is the highest from all starters if you measure from the
bottom of a ditch. A line between the edge of plywood (playing surface) and
the edge of the rail is also the longest one among all boards. This helps
keeping pucks within a board. There is a downside to this however. It reduces
comfort of flicking when you put your palm (wrist) on the rail and fingers on
the playing surface. Therefore I rate Muzziess 4.25 pts instead of 5.
Wintersonne
The rail at this board is shorter measuring from the inside then at Muzzies
Tournament. The distance between the edge of surface and the edge of rail is
also shorter, thereby a comfort of flicking is higher. Although this distance is
the same as at Willard PRO but we noticed that pucks jumps out and bounce
back more frequent while playing on that board. On balance I rate it 4.25 pts
too.
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Willard Pro
The rail of it is pleasantly rounded and your palm is in comfortable position.
Thick plywood of the playing surface helps in reducing bounce backs. There is
one downside to its ditch however: side surface of the plywood (playing
surface) is only sanded out, not prepared any further. The goal of it is
moisture reducing effect. The side effect of this idea are wood grains in the
ditch which can have adverse effect on discs and shots, especially if players
like to pass discs through the ditch. This is more noticeable for new boards.
4.25 pts for Willard.
Premium Hardwood
Although inside surface of the ditch is uneven, this element of the board is
first I can be positively disposed to. Unevenness doesn’t effect a game, disc
jumps back and out quite rarely. However the rail is not rounded on the top, it
is wide, which let your hand rest comfortably. 4.5 pts.
6. Discs
Muzzies Tournament
I have received natural wood and black set. They are simply not bad but It’s
not the strongest Point of Muzzies Board. They can’t be marked 5 pts,
because: natural seems to be a little more row than black ones, I could get
only determined sort of them (flat, and natural-black set). As far as i know
Murray is going to supply also convex-concave pucks. Just for now 4 pts, not
more.
Wintersonne
Discs enclosed to the board stand out. they seem to be slightly heavier than
these from Muzzies. The lacquer and colors looks rich and nice. However
they are a little bit overpainted here and there, but these discs are consistent
in general. They are convex/concave shaped. Before you learn to recognize
sides, you can spin them on the board it works nice in most cases. You can
also chose the color of your set. They are the most frequent used discs in our
both practice and tournament games, besides Willard ones. 4.5 pts is how I
assess them.
Willard Pro
We could chose from among many different colors. First they were all flat, but
second time Willard supplied us with convex - concave. Pucks from Willard’s
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offer are consistent and work fine. They look different then Jeske’s ones
- more woody look, which in that terms share similarity with Muzzies
discs. I promised an honest and impartial review, so one thing which
stops me from giving 5 is the fact that in first delivery we received 2
sets which differed minimally in shape from other 2 sets. However all of
them were playable and fulfill the same tournaments standard, we can
only collate green and yellow discs, and black with red, but shouldn’t
mix them. 4.5 pts.
Premium Hardwood
I must admit I was pleasantly surprised with disc of Mayday Games: Plenty of
colors to choose, company can alternatively supply you with flat or convex concave. They looked good at the first glance. I thought I could mark them 5
pts. Further examination of different sets however, discovered failures in 3
sets on 5 regardless of whether it was premium or normal set. It is not the big
issue as long as company enclose 14 discs per set, you can eliminated
inapplicable discs. They are a little bit less consistent then Jeske’s and
Willard’s ones but still not bad. I also found a green set to be more massive
and covered with a different paint technic. However flat black-natural discs I
received with the board, are good enough for playing tournament games. I
assess 4.25 pts per saldo.
Summery of the part:
Willard Pro is a winner of this round - 28.75 pts, Muzzies Tournament and
Wintersonne ties for 2nd place, both scoring 26.5 pts, the last place Premium Hardwood with 19 pts.
V RECAPITULATION
As I mentioned at the beginning these scores could be useful more for
European Crokinole fans, especially score of Wintersonne concerning
delivery time and price would be lower for customers outside EU.
According to our rules and scores
- the Champion is Willard Pro with 62.25 pts
- the Runner up is Tischlerei Knels - Jeske Wintersonne scoring 62 pts
- 3rd place for Muzzies Tournament - 59.75 pts
- 4th place for Maydaygames Premium Hardwood - 48.25 pts
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Strong and weak points:
Muzzies Tornament
Wintersonne
+ solid base construction
+ nice look (especially Blomelain
edition)
+ very good service
- sensitive surface
- not the most comfortable hand
position
- waiting time for delivery (EU)
+ very good surface
+ no import tax - better price
overall
+ quick delivery after order
- shallow ditch
- metal legs
Premium Hardwood
Willard Pro
+ very reliable service
+ surface
+ pegs
+ stability
- n o t h i n g s i g n i fi c a n t b e s i d e s
relatively higher overall price and
long wait for delivery (EU)
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+ comfort for placing hand
+ not bad discs
- unreliable info and service
- availability
- surface
- pegs
- quality overall
- other things
Although the last Round selected the best board in itself and overall winner
as well, It should be emphasized that all first three boards are very good. We
have mentioned small drawbacks, but none of them are deal breakers. You
can’t go wrong choosing any of them. They are ultimate boards available for
Europeans, and our club uses all three boards. All of them can be use for any
purpose, but choice depends on your need, patience, and sum of money you
can spend on it.
If you are looking for a board from motherland of Crokinole, decent one, with
attractive appearance, on which you would play with your guests and family
but you are not going to take part in most canadian tournaments, you are
ready for wait and for import tax, then order a board from Muzzies, and you
wouldn’t be disappointed.
If you live within EU, and you are not so patient, and have no additional
money for delivery and tax, and want a board of adequate quality, but not
designed to attract your all guests, Wintersonne from Jeske will provide
bang for your buck.
If money and time are not a factors, and you would like to feel Canadian
tournament standards or want to compete some Canadian players in the
future, then Willard PRO is the way to go.
What about Maydaygames Premium Hardwood board?
Well, the bitter truth is that it stack up badly against the others boards. To be
fair I can’t recommend this purchase whether or not you are well off. This
board shouldn’t be compared with the others. It’s different league, and all
failures disqualify it at the beginning. Even if you are looking something for
entry level, chose one of three mentioned above boards. It will save your
time, money, and disappointment. Especially don’t buy it for a gift. I don’t
deny I saw some Maydaygames boards in normal condition, however they
were not taken out from the package, but selected and prepared. There is a
high probability that you would receive the board not fulfilling your
expectations.
THE END
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Crokinole Boards Comparison Review

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