Troy Style Dartboards
I received this letter in July from S. Martin of upstate New York. With a website, generally you receive a ton of emails, and no one ever puts pen to paper and sends off something through the post. So, it was definitely fun to receive an actual letter.
He writes:
“Dear Sirs,
I’m from Albany NY originally. When I was a teenager, my friend and I used to play darts on an American dart baord. The board was shaped in a diamond, had a red background and the numbers were green or blue and white with a thin piece of wire separating them. They had a red center cork and an outside cork also.
They came in a couple of thicknesses 1″, 1 1/2″ & 2″. A guy in Waterford used to make them. Waterford is very close to Albany.
I would like to start playing again and I have searched on the internet with no success in finding these boards. This man in Waterford can’t be the only person that made these boards.
i you know can you give me an idea where I can get a new board like this? Also the wooden darts by Apex that we used on them.
Thanks”
I wasn’t sure about the second cork concept, but the diagonal/red board reminded me right away of something I had seen on George’s baseball darts website called a “Troy” board. You can see one towards the bottom of this page. There’s also a write-up at Bullseye that you can read here.
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I found the American style Troy boards. A guy named George Haines makes them for $70.00 plus $12.00 shipping. You can email him at vipdarts9@vipid.com Hope this helps.
hey albany..come up 50 miles to glens falls…stop in any of four or six bars..and we’ll play a game of darts with the board you remember..outside cork and all.electronics are out and the old leagues are back in. we don’t call ‘em troy boards but three feather darts instead of four are called troy darts by us.try devines billiards on the boulevard, queensbury ny for the equipment .
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