Slant boards are made up of six pieces (2 for the face and 4 for the back box).
Before cutting the pieces for your slant board you must determine the dimensions you would like your slant board to be (height x width of the face, size of the lip, height x width x depth of the box and what you would like the angle of tilt to be.
The following directions are based on the dimensions for a typical size slant board made at the Assistive Device Center.
1. Cut an 18″ x 12″ piece for the face (using a jigsaw, band saw, or an available cutting tool).
2. Cut an 18″ x 1 1/4″ piece for the lip.
3. Using the sander or sand paper round the two front corners of the lip.
4. Using a hot glue gun, glue lip onto bottom edge of the face.
1. Cut two 7 5/8″ x 5″ pieces. Ensure your edges are straight and that your corners form right angles. Sand the pieces as necessary to maintain clean edges.
2. Use a protractor to draw a line creating a 60 degree angle on each piece.
3. Cut side pieces along the line that you drew.
4. Cut one 10″ x 7″ piece for the bottom.
5. Trim one front long edge of bottom piece using the band saw (adjust table of band saw to 30 degrees) or by sanding.
6. Cut one 10″ x 5″ piece for the back.
7. Once all your pieces are cut and trimmed, glue the bottom and back piece together first.
8. Glue on the side pieces one at a time. (Place glue on inside edge of side pieces, not on the edge of back and bottom.)
9. Center box on back of face. Line front edge of box to bottom edge of face. Trace points of contact to indicate where to glue. Then glue face to box.