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The squares are oak and walnut. The trim and the base are oak. The top is hinged to provide storage for the pieces underneath. I can’t take credit for the chess pieces…. ordered those from Lee Valley for a whopping $3.50!
I messed up a little and had to trim my outside sqaures a bit undersize, but I was fairly satisfied with the results for my first attempt at something this complicated.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 644 days ago
Beautiful job, you should have kept quiet about your error. It looks like you’d need a very accurate instrument to detect it. I’m the same way though, it’s hard to hold back.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1
Don
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posted 644 days ago
One of the important skills of a woodworker is learning how to recover from an error.
I find it interesting that when they used some kind of X-ray technology to look beneath the surface paint of many of the paintings of the masters, they found where the artist had obviously messed up and repainted a hand, or some other feature of the painting.
-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/
dennis mitchell
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posted 643 days ago
I have been known to start building an entertainment center and end up with a small ashtray! It looks good charlie!
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CharlieM1958
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posted 643 days ago
Hey, an artist has a right to change his mind during the creative process, right? LOL
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Don
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posted 642 days ago
”_I have been known to start building an entertainment center and end up with a small ashtray! It looks good charlie!
—www.woodsongsfurniture.com_”
Good one, Denis.
Reminds me about the guy who decided to build a dinningroom table, but discovered when he finished that the legs were uneven causing it to wobble. The repair would be easy, he thought, so he be shortened one of the legs, then another, then…
He ended up with a large coffee table.
-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/
CharlieM1958
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posted 642 days ago
When I got interested in woodworking a couple of years ago. my earliest projects were picture frames. I remember one in particular where I was having problems getting my miter joints perfect and kept recutting them till I got it right. What started out to be a frame for an 8×10 photo was just about right for a wallet-size when I was done.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Shawn
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posted 635 days ago
very cool, I may ahve to make one…still designing a cribbage board…$3.50 you say, taht was per piece I take it?
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CharlieM1958
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posted 635 days ago
No, it was $3.50 for the ENTIRE set of light and dark pieces!!! I couldn’t believe it considering how they usually rake us woodworkers over the coals for most specialty items.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Napaman
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posted 23 hours ago
charlie…this was not your first project post…but in the PULSE PAge…its one of THE oldest projects…I am bored…so thought i would go backwards and see the old stuff—-the oldies but goodies…very cool stuff…
-- Matt, Napa, CA...177 days to sanity...
CharlieM1958
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posted 8 hours ago
Get a life, Matt. LOL!
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Napaman
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posted 5 hours ago
lol…thats what I was thinking as I was going through it…I went through the last 3 pages of the PULSE…(projects only)...
lol…great commment…i am smiling…BUT NOW I GOTTA KEEP GOING>...who knows it may bring OLD MEMBERS back…people who put up one project and have no idea there are 10,000 projects???
we’ll see…
matt
-- Matt, Napa, CA...177 days to sanity...