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Project by Matt (Upper Cut) posted 1963 days ago 3274 views 2 times 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.

-- Matt Gradwohl, Upper Cut Woodworks, http://uppercutwoodworks.com/




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Dominic Vanacora

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#1 posted 1963 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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#2 posted 1963 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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#3 posted 1963 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.info

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Grumpy

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#4 posted 1963 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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#5 posted 1963 days ago

Great chess board!

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

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Matt (Upper Cut)

264 posts in 1980 days


#6 posted 1963 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.

-- Matt Gradwohl, Upper Cut Woodworks, http://uppercutwoodworks.com/

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Pete Santos

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#7 posted 1962 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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#8 posted 1962 days ago

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

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX

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Matt (Upper Cut)

264 posts in 1980 days


#9 posted 1962 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!!!

-- Matt Gradwohl, Upper Cut Woodworks, http://uppercutwoodworks.com/

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MsDebbieP

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#10 posted 1962 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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#11 posted 1952 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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#12 posted 1951 days ago

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

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