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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 281 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.
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Critterman
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posted 281 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!!
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TreeBones
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posted 281 days ago
This is very nice, someone received a great chess board. Well done.
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Grumpy
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posted 281 days ago
Great design, I like it. How’s the chess playing going. Are you ready to take on the experts?.
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CharlieM1958
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posted 281 days ago
Great chess board!
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mgradwohl
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posted 281 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.
chamoruboy
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posted 281 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.
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GaryK
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posted 281 days ago
Great job! I really like the twisted rope around the drawer.
-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.
mgradwohl
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posted 280 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!!!
MsDebbieP
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posted 280 days ago
choke..choke…
nice!!!! worth every penny (just out of my price range)
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Roz
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posted 270 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."
rikkor
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posted 270 days ago
That”s a chessboard. I like the beveled sides.
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