After several hours of carving with my Dremel tool over the last two days, I completed the custom checkers for this project. This was my first attempt at wood carving and with 48 sides to carve, it was a bit tedious, but not too difficult. My skills improved a good deal by day two and I took some extra time to go back over the first day’s checkers and make sure they were all pretty consistent.
I took some video of the carving process to post as a separate blog entry once I have time to edit it.
I tried out several stain colors on some scraps and decided on Ebony and Natural Danish Oil for the two colors. They are drying at the moment. After I seal them, I’ll polish them with a coating of Bee’s Wax to make them nice and slippery.
I think Lila is going to enjoy these. I know I can’t wait for our first game on Christmas Eve.
Regards,
Jeff
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Monte Pittman
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#1 posted 165 days ago
Those are nice. It would take patience to carve them.
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#2 posted 165 days ago
Lot of work there, nice job.
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#3 posted 165 days ago
Thanks Guys. It did take quite a bit of patience to carve that many sides. My right hand kept falling asleep on me. I’m glad this part of the project is over. These 2” checkers look a lot better than standard 1 1/4” checkers on the board I’m building, so it was worth all the extra work.
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