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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Chess boards

Seems a lot of people have been making chess boards lately.

Bill Wilson is such a prolific woodworker. I'm always impressed at the volume of projects he cranks out. Here's his multi-use chess board: chess, checkers and dominoes. I love the chess pieces.





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Jim Allgeier from Cape Charles, VA built this chess board based on my design from a few years ago. He used Maple and Cherry (I like that combination for a chess board) and gave this to his ten-year-old son for Christmas.





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Over on Facebook, Bert Collett posted his chess board made with black walnut and curly maple. The box is black walnut. The base and drawers are old heart pine. Just gorgeous.


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Unrelated to chess (but using a similar technique to create the grid pattern) I just completed my first cutting board. I kind of screwed up the alignment of the pattern, but I'm still fairly satisfied. 



4 comments:

  1. Those are all excellent projects. Great work guys, I love those handmade pieces as well.

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  2. Did you talk about a video of making your cutting board ?

    I remember you was talking about a software to "design" it ?

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  3. Yes...the video will feature Cutting Board Designer as well as the actual build. Tomorrow.

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  4. I think it would be cool to build my own chess board. I looked around on the net and have seen a little but not much about doing so. One day maybe I will try my hands at a board.

    Dave

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