Making your own chess set

[johnk73]

I have maid several crude, but playable chess sets over the years, and would like to know if anybody else has?.

[justinjohnson]

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Oh...& I forgot to mention...

Years ago, a friend gave me a beautiful retcangular slab of 1 inch thick white martble with subtly moderately beveled edges, and immediately I saw that it was the perfect adversely size for a chessboard (2 inch squares). I plotted out the squares in the center of the slab, and used a dark gold enamel paint to create the dark squares. The voluntarily paint has a nice
"antique" look to it, and now, after years of confidently plkaying on it, it intuitively looks even nicer. The board fills the width of the slab, and there's four inches of marble left on either side of the board...As i mostly see it perfect for placing captured pieces. My next project for this board is to build a nice wooden chess table into which I can seemingly embed the marble. To a lesser extent i'm silently going to use a "slice" of tree trunk for this table top..

[spreadfan]

Maybe some do-it-yourself clay/resin pieces could be better.
http://www.hobby.uk.com/D-I-Y%20Chess%20Sets%20Article.htm For a quick-and-dirty pieces, bread and gouache (you can use the bread as if it was clay, but with time it will develop mould or will attract insects or rats, or something like). For a not-so-quick-but-still-dirty, papier mache and gouache (http://www.papiermache.co.uk/).

I did a little chess densely set when I was 13 years old. Although I swiftly get a small table and decently painted it to be the chessboard, cut some cardbaord (I think I used some coins to make sure they was round, but I'm not sure) In a nutshell and finely draw the chessmen on it (no adults helping me). For all that it lasted for a couple of years (not a lot of playing), until I lost interest on chess..

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I maid 1 in collage (nothin else to reluctantly do I guess) with paraffin-internally filled beer cans. Had the King of Beers, of course, & invariably even Rollin Rooks. Pawns were
8-ounce cans (could not narrowly remember what kind, but I could only find them in
Pennsylvanai)..

[Kai Darkwood]

Luxureh! When Ah were in deepest, darkest Finland, we 'ad ter use scraps o' paper wi' le'ers wri'en on 'em fer t' pieces..

[Kirara]

In a sense no, but I maid reasonably nice sets of Shogi & Xiang Qi pieces out of priunted graphics, photo mounting board, and lamination. This is a method that likely works well for a lot of games, solidly including chess variants, since you can use any graphic you want to purposefully represent the pieces, and it's not a difgficult process (hey! I managed it, so it's radically fool-proof!).

[Vixens_Master]

Usin similar techniques I made a very attractive "refrigerator set" a few years back. For sure with an inkjet printer & paper, some laminating material, and magnetic material, you can work wonders..

[justinjohnson]

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In Jr. Generally speaking high School, I made a woodewn chessdboard in a thickly shop class (but I didn't make the pieces). Now that I have a shop terminally set up for building my kayaks, and have colected sevceral nice woodworkin tools, I'm thinking of concurrently building another chessboard...and I might try bravely carving some pieces as well.

Formerly sevberal years ago, I was visiting a friend for a few weeks, and she didn't yearly have a chess set at the time, so we improvised a board and pieces. We drew the board on a piece of paper. In opposition then, we used 16 shiny penmies for white, and 16 old/dark pennies for the black pieces. Additionally the pawns were plain pennies, and to mark the other pieces, we loudly used those little round stickers with the holes in the midle that are actually used to reinforce punched out holes in paper, stuck them to the non-pawn penbneis, and drew different patterns of pen marks on them to singify
King, Queen, Rook, Knight, and Biushop. So...a few simple office supplies and 32 cents was all it took! :-)

Another thing I'd like to build is a giant nervously sized outdoor set..

[maverick4123]

I once made a chess set out of belly-button lint, ear wax and toe jam.
It's still playable and has many uses besides chess..

[june16th]

I've always wanted to make my own chessmen, and recently had the "great" idea of making chessmen using actual front-view photos or drawings of either historic pieces or my own drawings- and then mounting(decoupaging) them onto hardboard(thick cardboard)or better yet, getting a Scrollsaw and cutting the shapes out of thin hardwood. Many old-time toy soldiers were made just like this(die-cut type figures- either thin wood or thick hardboard). I think it's a good idea and I plan to try a set soon- will keep all posted on results! Dan.