Spray Deft Wood Gloss on all the pieces, including the ash.Put it between paper towels and two flat sheets of plywood or MDF and use something heavy like a cinder block to keep it flat until it dries. The water will cause the board to warp.The board should look gray and still have all of the grain still visible. Paint one side of the ash and then wipe away the excess.Mix gray acrylic with water until it has the consistency of watercolor.Prepare the ash wood for the ore hex tiles.The bottom side of the wood for the hex tiles can be skipped since they will be sanded later. 220 grit by hand or orbital sander is fine. Sand all your pieces if they have splinters or rough spots.Follow the below steps for all other wood. The plywood for the box should not be sanded or sprayed with gloss before masking.It will cause you endless headaches later if you do. This method will be explained further in later sections. You can use any veneer as long as it's rigid and not thicker than 2 mm. The veneer doesn't have to be exactly 1/16 in thick. This method uses the "Stacked Hex Tiles" and "Stacked Hex Tile Veneer Pieces" files. The other way, which I prefer, is to cut a hexagonal hole all the way through a sheet of wood, and then glue veneer to the back. If you decide on this method, you won't need to buy the veneer. This method uses the "Flat Hex Tiles" files. The first way of creating the slot is by raster engraving about 1 mm deep into a single sheet of wood. The pips have to fit in a hexagonal slot on the top of the tile. All the other pieces except for the veneer can be up to 4 mm thick, but 3 mm or 1/8 in is recommended. 1/8 in wood is approximately 3 mm thick and will work. The cards, the robber, and the box must be cut with wood that is between 2.8 and 3.4 mm thick, inclusive. I listed the species I used in the previous step. These files can all be cut from plywood, but I highly recommend using several species of hardwood for the hexes. Forceps (not strictly necessary, but they will make weeding and painting small pieces much easier).
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