These pawns I turned out of various pallet wood, deadfall, offcuts etc, the three on the right are out of african blackwood, once my final design is pleasing unto me I will turn a whole set. Each pawn becomes a little quicker. I turn them all on 3” faceplates but a chuck would be just as good. I didn’t bother to put a finish on most of them. I could probably have a game of chess just on prototypes alone! A work in progress may inspire others to try as well. I swapped out my 1.5 hp electric motor over to a 1/3 hp as chess pieces take very little to run. Chess Pawns turned manually on a wood lathe.
-- Mike, Airdrie Alberta
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Scott Bryan
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posted 242 days ago
Very nice. And your use of found and offcut material is a great idea. I think that an entire set would be a post that I would like to see.
Thanks for sharing.
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Karson
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posted 242 days ago
I see you got it there. great job.
They look great.
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Mario
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posted 242 days ago
Really nice job. I would love to see how you do all of them.
Thanks.
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 242 days ago
A really nice project, I’ve always been going to make a chess set.
I’m glad you got the pictures working.
I’ll be waiting to see some more in the future.
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