A chess set

Wow Bob, very nice project! Thanks for sharing.

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You can never be accused of not looking after details….beautiful wood…especially the cocobolo set.

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Beautiful Work!!

What type of lathe duplicator are you using?

Lew

That’s one heck of a project. Beautiful!

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

Sweet!!! Great looking chess set.

-- Dennis Zongker

Very nice!!!!!

-- Mike

Thanks fellas.
the duplicator is just a run of the mill offshore rig . I paid about $100.00 for it and it seems to do a reasonable job for small stuff at least.
The bigest problem duplicating is getting all the segments the same length. The rest is in the details.

Bob

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I’m impressed!!!!!!!!

But can you play?

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Roman, I have trouble with checkers! <g>

Bob

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Bob, that is so cool!
What a great job. I am impressed with the detail. WOW!

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Great Bob Nice job on the board and the men.

Looks like a handy duplicator.

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OOOOO no not again. I can’t make this.
YOU MADE ALL THE PIECES!
What a wonderful chess set. You have made an heirloom.
I’ve been wanting to make a chess set but my skills are still not developed enough to do this kind of work and
I need more power tools to help me. Thanks for showing the way.

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By gosh, Bob, that is really nifty!! How ‘bout a game?

-- Thos. Angle

Bob, I love chess boards and have made a couple feeble attempts of my own, but this one is just outstanding in design and construction. Not to mention the pieces! Great job!

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

Most Excellant Bob – what talent you have … someday

-- Canadian Wood Chuck (Bruce)

impressive set!

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Very nice work Bob. I’m mildly chess addicted. Studying the Queen’s Indian right now.

Truly awesome…

Thanks for sharing.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Wow, that is nice! Those cocobolo pieces are beautiful.

Kerry

-- Alberta, Canada

Beautiful chest set and board! Exquisite detail and design. One of the nicest sets I’ve seen. Thank you for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Bob, you’ve done a great job with this board and set. That obviously took a lot of patience. I like the wood choice.

Thanks for posting it.

-- Martin, Kansas

Bob, well done. This is definately on my list to do one day. I went so far as to make a few pawns when playing around one day, but I don’t have a duplicator and am not very good at duplicate turning yet. Everyone says it is so easy if you lay out a template, but I disagree. Now I have 4 pawns for four different chess sets.

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I’m happy you folks are enjoying this project. It’s one that I enjoyed making as well. There are a few things I would do differently the second time but that goes for most of my stuff.
It you are going to do any amount of turning duplicate pieces a decent duplicator is a good investment.
The finish is not as fine as hand tunring but wonce you are in the sweet zone you can finsh the pices like a purist. <g>

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Bob, this is truly spectacular! How did you do the knights?

Hi Rikkor:
The bases are turned on the lathe and then the out line is cut with my bandsaw or scroll saw. The rest is just a bit of carving with sharp knives. ( like a cabriole leg)
I trace the shape on each block first from a profile I made using a drawing program (Freehand) I have the drawings somewhere if you are interested.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

I have the drawings somewhere if you are interested.

I am. Thanks for the reply. As I said, that is a wonderful set.

Hey Bob .. great posting. truly nice work all around

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Most Excellent work!

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Rikkor:
I rounded up the pics of the original knight pieces and the outlines.
You can enlarge or reduce them to suit your project.
Hope this helps.

Cheers

Bob

From chess set

From chess set

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one word comes to mind….wow. I attempted to turn some chess pieces once. I think I got 1 pawn done :) Thanks for sharing! Inspirational.

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Thanks Nicole.
There were times when I could easily have put them up on the “I’ll finish this up later shelf”. <g>

Bob

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Wow, I looked at making the pieces for my set and walked away with my tail between my legs. Good for you for taking it on and nice job too! Congratulations.

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Great work, I gotta try this someday

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