![]() So I don’t want the thickest board and bad craftsmanship, instead I would better like a more thin, but done professionally board. If you have any suggestions, advice, maybe where to buy or what? I could even consider buying used, but in that case I would like again good quality for the price. I have a deep respect for quality, craftsmanship, wood grain, smell, sound.īut I am still a University student, so I don’t want to spend too much money. I looked at many stores in Japan and in Korea and I want to buy from a high quality craftsman. I don’t want to rush this purchase, but to buy the best board I can get for my money. ![]() ![]() **I would like listen to your advice and what you suggest for me. I would like for the board to be lighter and not dark, so I can look at it for hours. My budget is about 200-300 euros (25-35 thousand Yen) for this purchase.įor me this time the most important aspect of this purchase would be, good quality wood which was well crafted and cared and the lines were done well. I want to buy a nicer GO board which I would use everyday, for study GO and play face to face matches a few times a week, at home. I got a few weeks ago a set of Keyaki bowls and a set of Slate and Shell stones so now I will have good stones and bowls. I got a cheaper 50mm Chinese made Shinkaya board. When I moved the goban off the glass, I noticed in two spots, the wax had rubbed off fairly significantly. Kaya trees ready to be cut, stored and dried for go boards Bamboo boards are also becoming an excellent alternative wood for go boards. It's on three of those 'jar lid gripper' anti-slip things now, until my tatami mat arrives in a little while. Find an appropriate transport system and be careful who you play with at club.I am in a middle of a hard decision. For a couple of weeks after I purchased it, the goban rested bare on a glass surface. You can lose stones, players may to have any respect for your equipment, spilled drinks, smokers, you can drop your bowls, stones chip if dropped on concrete floors. Taking a set to club is fraught with peril. The edges get dinged, the surfaces get pitted from energetic joseki, the bases get scratched. I have an ancient, slotted Katsura for club and two beautiful objects for playing with friends. I have three or four boards and I stopped worrying about them many years ago. IN Japan, the cover for fine go boards is commonly made of a lightweight wood called paulownia. If you know a woodworker, offer to pay them to make a box that will fit loosely over the board. A towel or decorative weaving works well. Put a resilient or solid cover on it to prevent additional damage from animals or persons other than you. Is this normal with Shin Kaya boards? Is this wood really so soft? Do you guys treat your gobans like they were made out of thin glass or in some kind of tea ceremony level of carefulness? I am scared of moving this thing out of the house but I'd like to take it with me to my local go club some day.ĭents in the edge and corner of my 50mm shinkaya gobanĪny wood will do that. My laptop, for example, is 8 years old, I use it every day and it shows very minor signs of use. I don't usually break stuff and I treat delicate things with care. I consider myself a fairly careful person. During those days the board was laying on the living room table table and at some point I moved it to another table. It is made out of 5 pieces but the joints are very inconspicuous and the wood grain is subtle and nice in everyone of its sides and specially the playing board.Īfter a couple of days I noticed two small dents in the edges that I'm 100% sure there were not there when I received it. When I first got it I was pleased by how beautiful it was for the price. I bought my first 19 x 19 goban in this German website.
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