TellicoTurning
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This has been on my bucket list since I started turning... we have an art show coming up with my local art guild and I wanted to enter a chess set...
this is my first and not too shabby, even if I do throw my shoulder out patting myself on the back.... the pawns are 2" high and the back row, I call them the royals, graduate upward to 4 1/4" for the king. The pieces are all weighted with birdshot and have felt on the bottoms.
The woods are Walnut for dark and Pecan for white..The board is Maple and Bubinga. I'm not much of a flat worker, so the board could be a little better... it has a slight arch in it towards the center. I don't have a drum sander and was leery of putting it through my planer... 1. it's too wide and 2. I ran a glue up through it once and destroyed a blade, jammed the blade guard to the point I have to drill out one of the screws...
Anyway, take a look and tell me what you see...
this is my first and not too shabby, even if I do throw my shoulder out patting myself on the back.... the pawns are 2" high and the back row, I call them the royals, graduate upward to 4 1/4" for the king. The pieces are all weighted with birdshot and have felt on the bottoms.
The woods are Walnut for dark and Pecan for white..The board is Maple and Bubinga. I'm not much of a flat worker, so the board could be a little better... it has a slight arch in it towards the center. I don't have a drum sander and was leery of putting it through my planer... 1. it's too wide and 2. I ran a glue up through it once and destroyed a blade, jammed the blade guard to the point I have to drill out one of the screws...
Anyway, take a look and tell me what you see...