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does anyone make their own chess sets?

does anyone make their own chess sets?

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just curious, but i was wondering if anyone makes chess sets... if so, what kind of materials? wood? metal? plastic? carp?

it might be the fact that it's 2:30 am here and i need sleep now, but i've suddenly felt the overwhelming desire to carve a chess set out of wood. any advice will be appreciated if i still feel this way in the morning.

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Your title is missing an a.

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Being that you`re in the U.S. You could always use empty bullet casings of various calibre. Would be novel 😉

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Originally posted by Darth Sponge
just curious, but i was wondering if anyone makes chess sets... if so, what kind of materials? wood? metal? plastic? carp?

it might be the fact that it's 2:30 am here and i need sleep now, but i've suddenly felt the overwhelming desire to carve a chess set out of wood. any advice will be appreciated if i still feel this way in the morning.
I always thought making your own chess set was a practice strictly reserved for prison inmates with life sentences.

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Originally posted by hopscotch
I always thought making your own chess set was a practice strictly reserved for prison inmates with life sentences.
As such, a perfect hobby for today's suburbanite.

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Originally posted by hopscotch
I always thought making your own chess set was a practice strictly reserved for prison inmates with life sentences.
Just like transporting rocks in your pants.

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I made one once from Aluminium and brass Tubing... with a ceramic board surrounded with mahogany edging.

3/4" pipe draw cut to a decent pattern ...design one. draw file for a nice finish and lacquer it. Get the tiles for the board from any bathroom shop 1" squares.

I put ali legs on the board so it doubled as a coffee table.

That was yonks ago.

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Paper = http://www.fishgoth.com/origami/chess.html
Diagrams at the bottom of page in pdf format.

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Originally posted by Darth Sponge
just curious, but i was wondering if anyone makes chess sets... if so, what kind of materials? wood? metal? plastic? carp?
Carp?

Now that could be interesting. When you take one of your opponent's pieces, maybe you would be allowed to slap them in the face with the wet fish.

I suppose your front line would be eight prawns, and your royalty would have to be scallops (king and queen species of course - Pecten maximus and Aequipecten opercularis).

Any suggestions for the other pieces?

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Originally posted by howitzer
Any suggestions for the other pieces?

Seahorse for the horsie?

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Originally posted by Varg
Seahorse for the horsie?
Or horse muscles from the beach.

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Originally posted by Tirau Dan
I made one once from Aluminium and brass Tubing... with a ceramic board surrounded with mahogany edging.

3/4" pipe draw cut to a decent pattern ...design one. draw file for a nice finish and lacquer it. Get the tiles for the board from any bathroom shop 1" squares.

I put ali legs on the board so it doubled as a coffee table.

That was yonks ago.
thats very cool.

well, it's 8am and i'm still thinking about it... don't know if i'll use mahogany or bullet casings. i think shotgun shell rooks would be nice.

i'm missing a knight from one of my sets... cat got to it. took it away somewhere. i'll start with that one.

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I like the idea of carving your own pieces out of wood. The whole bullet idea seems kind of antithetical to your original idea?

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I suggest this:

http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=15

It even balances the game, because you get to drink up the piece you've just taken.