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Chess set for school charity

Project by mgradwohl posted 694 days ago 741 views 1 time favorited 12 comments Add to Favorites Watch

One of the first projects I ever built, for my daughter’s school auction. Walnut and Maple Chess Set, with a small drawer underneath. I had the drawer lined with padded purple velvet. It’s a good place to store the pieces that the kids made out of high quality modelling clay.

Can’t remember where I got the technique for making the top, but I stole that idea, refined it, and then added the small drawer underneath.


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Dominic Vanacora

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posted 694 days ago

Very nice wood selections. I love the idea of making your own chess set. That we really make it their own. Nice project, Great Workmenship. I should note that the rope edge is a nice touch.

-- Dominic, Trinity, Florida...Lets be safe out there.

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Critterman

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posted 694 days ago

Excellent! great use of grain and love the way you put the rope around the top of the felt in the drawer. Very Classy!!

-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA

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TreeBones

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posted 694 days ago

This is very nice, someone received a great chess board. Well done.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/

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Grumpy

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posted 694 days ago

Great design, I like it. How’s the chess playing going. Are you ready to take on the experts?.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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CharlieM1958

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posted 694 days ago

Great chess board!

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

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mgradwohl

190 posts in 711 days


posted 694 days ago

I don’t play chess yet, and someone bought the chess set at auction, so it’s gone. I’ll have to make a new one and learn the game.

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chamoruboy

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posted 694 days ago

How much did it go for? Seen some like that for sale for 2 to 3 hundred bucks that weren’t nearly as nice. It’s good to practice and learn on things you are going to give away or sell and then make your own nicer and improved based on the experience.

I plan to make a poker table for a friend and after that I’ll make my own.

-- Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and love.

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GaryK

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posted 694 days ago

Great job! I really like the twisted rope around the drawer.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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mgradwohl

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posted 693 days ago

Chamoru,

This sold at a school auction for my daughter’s elementary school. Her school was private and had some pretty affluent families attending, it sold for $3500!!!

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MsDebbieP

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posted 693 days ago

choke..choke…
nice!!!! worth every penny (just out of my price range)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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Roz

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posted 683 days ago

I have seen several of the chess board but never one with a storage drawer under it. Very nice.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."

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rikkor

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posted 683 days ago

That”s a chessboard. I like the beveled sides.

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