The Beyond: Homemade Ouija Boards

Make Your Own Board

Yeah, you can go buy a board in a store or one of the MUCH more attractive models online, but what if you have no money? There's a very easy alternative. Make your own. It's not hard to do, and if you're a creative person, then you can tailor it to your own style.

There are a lot of different ways to do it. About 600 years ago, when I was younger (around 4th or 5th grade), I was in a situation where I was VERY interested in the board, but I had no money. What I did was, I got a large smooth piece of cardboard. I wrote letters and numbers on it in an attempt to make it look like the Parker Brothers board. It looked pretty good, or at least good enough for me.

The planchette was the hard part. I didn't want to use some big heavy piece of glass, so I had to be inventive. I went down to the local grocery store, and went to the vending machine area in the front of the store. You remember those machines. You could get anything from a super bouncy ball to a handful of slime for a quarter!

So, I went and got some slime. I carefully removed the slime from the plastic egg-canister thingy, and threw it at my sister. I kept the clear dome shaped container, and used it as my planchette. After a little while, and once I realized that you didn't need a clear piece of plastic or glass, I got more creative and made pointers out of styrofoam and cardboard with a big hole in the center to see the letters through. Bottom line is there are a LOT of possibilities.

Oh, and for the record, that little piece of crap cardboard Ouija with the styrofoam planchette worked better for me than any other board I had ever used.

It seems like every Ouija page or site on the net has it's only little gallery of all the boards available for purchase all over the world. Now, I can show you the same old pictures of the Parker Brothers boards, The Psychic Circle, or Cryprique that you can see on everybody else's site. But, would that be me? Nope. I can't do the same thing every other site is doing. Instead, I'm going to show you boards that you CAN'T buy or see on every site. These are all homemade boards.

Let's forget the 30 year old controversial Anti-Ouija debate, and let's appreciate these boards for what they are, works of art. So PLEASE. If you've designed your own board, let us know, We'd LOVE to show it off for you.

Homemade Boards

User submitted boards:

This one was built by ripping apart a dresser, and writing on the back board with magic markers. If you'll notice, the artist took the time to stick 39 push pins in the bottom of the board. The artist told me that she did that because 39 is her lucky number. "It's luckier than 13."

Ingenuity at its finest! I remember when I was younger, and deeply interested in this stuff, I made boards like this too.
-Thanks to Misa & Pippa from De Pere, Wisconsin for this submission!

Here are a few boards that I'm in the process of making.

This is the first board I decided to design based on the website style. Not a bad first attempt, and I'm not entirely certain that I won't complete it. I just wanted to do an image that was a little more complicated.

This one is DEFINITELY NOT my style. When a friend gives you specifics on how to design the board she wants, what do you do? Argue about how much you don't like it? Yup. That's what I did, but in the end, I did what I was asked to do. All in all, I don't think it turned out badly. The board itself is made of laminated pine. The planchette is pine with a Plexiglass eye.

This one was being made to replace the blue one, but I'm still not certain that I'm going to keep it. It's going to be made the same way as the one above. It's a photoshopped image laminated onto a pine board, with a custom matching planchette with a plexiglass eye held in place with a piece of decorative brass.

Other Homemade Boards

If you have a board that you made, we'd love to show it off here. Send us an image of it and tell us how you made it. Don't worry about the quality. It can be a piece of paper and a glass. As long as we can explain how it's made. Who knows, maybe someone can learn a better way based on your design.

Send your image and description to Admin@thebeyond.info

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