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Rlyss · 08-06-2004, 06:01 AM

Hi everyone.

Many many years ago I made a chess board out of wood. I had a plywood base, added cubes of dark and light wood for the squares, added a strip of wood to the border, varnished it like crazy. You might see a pic of it <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/214/1224/1024/chess.jpg">here</a> but I don't think it'll work. Maybe the copy and paste thing does the trick, I'm not sure. If the pic does work, keep in mind the bad digicam, bad lighting, and it's about ten years old now and it's been beaten around a bit.

Anyway, I've been wanting to make a new one. I decided against tiles for the last one (I don't think they look good), and used native Australian wood instead, and it looks fantastic (if i do say so myself!).

So I'm looking for some interesting, uniqued ideas on what materials I can use to make a chess board. Some of my ideas have been:

- Pebbles of two different colors, as squares, with a thick layer of glass over the top. Make the squares out of very thin plywood (or balsa wood?), fill them with pebbles.

- Old computer parts (green motherboards for one color, perhaps old cooling fans for the other)

- Coins

- Old notes from high school cut into squares (yellow paper, white paper perhaps). That would give a cool effect.

Any design that has a rough surface (coins/pebbles/computer parts) would have a layer of glass over the top.

Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, comments, advice, anything?

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08-06-2004, 06:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
Rlyss The Pusher Location: Edinburgh	Chess board ideas Hi everyone. Many many years ago I made a chess board out of wood. I had a plywood base, added cubes of dark and light wood for the squares, added a strip of wood to the border, varnished it like crazy. You might see a pic of it <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/214/1224/1024/chess.jpg">here</a> but I don't think it'll work. Maybe the copy and paste thing does the trick, I'm not sure. If the pic does work, keep in mind the bad digicam, bad lighting, and it's about ten years old now and it's been beaten around a bit. Anyway, I've been wanting to make a new one. I decided against tiles for the last one (I don't think they look good), and used native Australian wood instead, and it looks fantastic (if i do say so myself!). So I'm looking for some interesting, uniqued ideas on what materials I can use to make a chess board. Some of my ideas have been: - Pebbles of two different colors, as squares, with a thick layer of glass over the top. Make the squares out of very thin plywood (or balsa wood?), fill them with pebbles. - Old computer parts (green motherboards for one color, perhaps old cooling fans for the other) - Coins - Old notes from high school cut into squares (yellow paper, white paper perhaps). That would give a cool effect. Any design that has a rough surface (coins/pebbles/computer parts) would have a layer of glass over the top. Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, comments, advice, anything? [img]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PgDhAk0SYzjB1LQMn6MwsUq4hO6jwsCnoY2wFjZOInGNH4LScGDNOeGm1QCkbNxXgSGMbXvQsamiokRf6Ofa002a3T6g/chess.jpg?dc=4675483788822338554[/img] Last edited by Dorito2; 08-06-2004 at 08:02 PM..