Workers Of Wood

Any ideas on how to make Chess pieces without a Lath?

Bushwhacker

Whittle..
cast...
fired clay...
bandsaw...
coping saw...
nuts and bolts...

Lots of plans out there to do them on the scroll saw too.

HandyDan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:18 pm Lots of plans out there to do them on the scroll saw too.

I was hoping Stick would make them for me.

Bushwhacker
Thanks guys, I'll check scroll saw plans

Bushwhacker wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 6:27 pm

HandyDan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:18 pm Lots of plans out there to do them on the scroll saw too.

I was hoping Stick would make them for me.

Bushwhacker
Thanks guys, I'll check scroll saw plans

I ordered a book that contains instruction on making a gig and the cutting out of the pieces plus patterns of the pieces.
I'll post how this goes.
Thanks again

Bushwhacker

I made a scroll sawn set last year, for our 2x4 Challenge. It included the board and storage case:

Outstanding, Dan!!! Did you include instructions on how to play, too?
Herb

DaninVan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 12:15 pm I made a scroll sawn set last year, for our 2x4 Challenge. It included the board and storage case:

very nice dan.
I would like to see the storage box if possible.
Bushwhacker

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:23 pm Outstanding, Dan!!! Did you include instructions on how to play, too?
Herb

Nah; it went to my Grandson (8 yrs.old) for a B-Day present, after the challenge. He actually does know how to play.

Bushwhacker wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 10:03 am

DaninVan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 12:15 pm I made a scroll sawn set last year, for our 2x4 Challenge. It included the board and storage case:

very nice dan.
I would like to see the storage box if possible.
Bushwhacker

I'll see if I can finds some pics. Basically I ripped 3/8"x 3 1/2 x 8' strips and then glued up two large panels for the top and bottom. The sides were single pieces of the 3 1/2" strips. The length and width are from the chess board dimension of 8-2" squares in both directions.
(The pics are on a different computer.)

Oh; I mitred the box sides and drilled 1/8" holes in both directions and dowelled them with 1/8"dowel.
I also dadoed (3/16") the sides along the top and bottom to accept the two panels, which had the edges rebated to slip into the grooves.

Those dark chess pieces are stained, not a different wood species.

OK; different box but same style and build...
The box is filled with KAPLA blocks (that's why it looks full).

I had never heard that term Kapla Blocks before, had to look them up. For you who are the same,

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=What+a ... &ia=images
Herb

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 1:40 pm I had never heard that term Kapla Blocks before, had to look them up. For you who are the same,

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=What+a ... &ia=images
Herb

They're a lot of fun for the kids; they love building stuff with them. My grandsons have two complete sets plus a couple of smaller commercially made sets...maybe 500 pieces in total.

We had tinkertoys and those building blocks that looked like little bricks.Also lincoln logs. My dad made a ton of square shaped logs like the round Lincoln logs
My kids had Leggos.
Herb

Tinkertoys and Meccano, yessss!

"Meccano" We called those erector sets, and you are right the premier educational toy.
HErb

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 4:48 pm "Meccano" We called those erector sets, and you are right the premier educational toy.
HErb

I'd cancel my plans for the day to be able to play with that again!

It is funny the different toys that each generation comes up with, the kids now have a bunch of stupid games, with the exception of Zoob BuilderZ, and Great Gears, Still have the Tea Sets for girls though.
My kids went through the digital age and understand electronics way better than I do. We went through a Mechanical Age because of the war and people were needed to build war machines.
HErb

All these assembly type 'toys' are invaluable for building hand eye co-ordination and subtly teaching spatial relations and physics principles. That's why girls need to play with this stuff more. The boys, not so much with the tea party BS.
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DaninVan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 9:29 am

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 4:48 pm "Meccano" We called those erector sets, and you are right the premier educational toy.
HErb

I'd cancel my plans for the day to be able to play with that again!

One of my nephews still talks about how when i got back from Vietnam, I visited them and he and I got on the floor and spent the day playing with tinker toys. He is in his 60s today.

Bushwhacker

After spending over 3 years sitting behind a desk, I got out and got a job building houses and never looked back.
Herb

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:18 pm After spending over 3 years sitting behind a desk, I got out and got a job building houses and never looked back.
Herb

When I retired from the Army, I got a job as an apprentice Carpenter, (Union Job), then began to build houses.
You learn a lot that will be helpful for all of your life building houses.

Bushwhacker