Chess Box

2nd piece ever? Wow, you’re on a fast track to becoming a pro. Nice selection of colors.

(Go to Wikipedia and look-up Cocobolo for an excellent photo of chess pieces.)

-- Branlon, Board Director, South Central Indiana

That is super nice. Great craftsmanship, beautiful wood selection, really a “one of” , piece.

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

Nice job!

While you are waiting for the lathe, Lee Valley sells a set of wooden chess pieces very cheap.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

circular saw???? boy, you have one good hand. did you glue it one square at a time or did you glue strips and crosscut?
I am also making a chess board for a friend (this is my second try – the first one had 7 rows so it was not that usable). mine is very thing (less than 1 cm).
I found that gluing the endgrain is really hard (ended up using biscuits), and i am now contemplating how to frame it so it will not break the frame or twist (I am sending it from dry Christchurch to humid Tel aviv).

fantastic piece. the finish is also excellent. i with my 2nd (or 10th) piece were that good.

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Nice looking finish. How did you do it?

I glued it up in strips than crosscut. I used a guide fence for my circular saw, which helped. After gluing I used a router and a jig to flaten, than alot of sanding. It is about 3/4” thick.

The finish is a MinWax wipe on poly. Real easy to apply.

-- T. Nelson