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I wanted to share some pictures of a chess board that I made a few years ago. I made the main parts of the board out of Bubinga (my favorite wood) and Maple. Around the edges I through in a Purple heart accent. I added some feet to keep the board very stable.
I’m sorry that I don’t have a ton of build pictures for this. I think they are on my other computer or backed up on an external hard drive.
The best part of this build, I have taught both of my kids how to play chess on it and they like trying to beat the old man. I’m hoping this will continue down the family line for a while as a heirloom.
Awesome John, that is nice.
Very classy !!!!
looks great.
That’s great!
John, I am still waiting for you to turn all the chess pieces 🙂
rrmccabe wrote:
1 minute ago, rrmccabe said:John, I am still waiting for you to turn all the chess pieces 🙂
No real desire to do that. Too many other projects with a higher priority.
Not something I could do. I don’t like repetition.
I would have to make every chess piece different. Probably not good for chess.
Maybe CNC 🙂
That’s really nice great job
That’s quite nice man.
Beautiful Chess board. I really like the purple heart accents!
Awesome board!! Love chess, played it since I was a kid. I’m no master by any means but it’s hard to find good players.
Wow John that’s a beautiful set!
Jimbo
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Beautiful job Rich and that’s awesome being able to teach your kids on it too!
superb. good job