954 days ago
by degoose |
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From yesterdays post you know that I have a new friend.. he makes chess pieces… and I am making a chess board for him… it has to be larger than the standard international size.. which is 45 mm [1 3/4 inches] per side of each square…
This new board is made from Queensland Maple [flindersia brayleyana] and Silver Ash [flindersia shottiana].. and the squares have been beefed up to 70 mm [2 3/4 inches.]
First step .. rip and dress to size… I am actually making two ...
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954 days ago
by degoose |
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When making a traditional chess board from timber, the two different timbers are cut into 4 boards each… glued together in alternating stripes and then cross cut and rotated and reglued to make the checker design.. This also gives the squares the same direction of grain pattern.
I know that most people shy away from cutting all the squares and then gluing up each piece … but as most of you will know, I have had much practice and for me it is no more difficult than glueing two...
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1436 days ago
by degoose |
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I bought some nice Glass chess pieces at a garage.. read yard… sale.. lolThought I would post some pics of the the Why Do I? board set up for chess..I think It sets it off.I posted here ‘cause I wanted to avoid an accusation of reposting the same things twice?I think that keeping with the theme here I will post pics with shot glasses used as checkers.. lolTake a piece and take a shot lllooottttssss of fun hey.Anyone for a game? !!
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950 days ago
by degoose |
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Here be a few photographs on a border design for one of the chess boards.
This board is NSW Rosewood and Camphor Laurel
The border was made by cutting triangles of NSW Rosewood and Silver Ash and laminating them between strips of Camphor Laurel and Queensland Maple..alternating the colors..
Then it was a matter of making a lip in some Rosewood and glueing the Triangular feature to the solid rosewood and mitre cutting the corners… this is actually harder than you might think...
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1660 days ago
by drknoxy |
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I found this website, and now am inspired to make my own.http://www.straightupchess.com/store/index.cfm?category=2
I thought this was a really cool idea though I’m not sure yet on how I would want to install the glass or plexi row/stands.
If you look closely it also has vertical slits between each checkerboard column. (i think)I wonder how this could have been accomplished
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202 days ago
by Retsof |
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I have been thinking about what I could build for my 10 year old daughter for Christmas. She enjoys board games like Monopoly and Clue, so I thought I would build a fancy board game box to hold a Monopoly set with a drawer to keep all the money, cards, and game pieces organized. I looked at the others posted on LJ and a few other places on the web for inspiration and I played around with a few designs of my own in SketchUp.
As with most things I draw in SketchUp, I was spending so much t...
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1487 days ago
by degoose |
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Just a notion I had to make a different border for the drunken chess board..The Idea is to take the border 1/2” away from the outer edge of the board.. and hold it there with brass pins.???What do you think?
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953 days ago
by degoose |
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Well today I intend to make the frames for all the chess boards… I think I have… no … I know I have 5 boards needing frames… and a few of them will have a box made under to contain a drawer to store the pieces…
The largest will be fitted to a table… with a drawer.. I have in mind tapered legs… not sure…maybe…we will see..
So it is off to the workshop… after I have my morning coffee… to make some sawdust…
I think the frames should contrast to the actual boards..and maybe have a little...
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558 days ago
by CartersWhittling |
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Hello. After my last post I was ready to start joinery on the main carcase. So I decided to do a dowel joint. I just used a simple block of wood with a 3/8” hole and fence clamped to it. The hole was placed so that it would be centered on 3/4” stock. I have lines drawn around the jig to locate the centre of the hole so I could align the jig to my marks on the work pieces.
Here is the carcase disassembled with the dowels in place.
You may be able to see in the picture the...
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196 days ago
by Retsof |
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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...
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