On Sep 27, 9:39=A0am, Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm taking a whack at one today and wondered who has been down this
> road before.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Watsonhttp://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/
Finally found one that I have seen and liked. Looks simple enough,
unlike the more ornate complex ones.
Are you doing the whole set, Tom?
On Sep 27, 6:39=A0am, Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm taking a whack at one today and wondered who has been down this
> road before.
Usually one turns the head as an eggshape, then cuts (observing
grain direction) the eggshape to an oval slab. A file or rasp
makes two notches that suggest the horse-head shape.
I did it with steel rods, using a drillpress as a lathe, and a bench
grinder for the flattening operation. It's up to you whether to
add embellishments, I stopped right there (my Dremel points
weren't up to the challenge of carving a proper mane).
Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I'm taking a whack at one today and wondered who has been down this
> road before.
Start with a block of wood and carve away everything that doesn't look like
a Staunton Knight.
Hope this helps,
Scott
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:47:40 -0700 (PDT), Robatoy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sep 27, 9:39 am, Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm taking a whack at one today and wondered who has been down this
>> road before.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tom Watsonhttp://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/
>
>Finally found one that I have seen and liked. Looks simple enough,
>unlike the more ornate complex ones.
>Are you doing the whole set, Tom?
Yeah. I'm doing this one:
http://houseofstaunton.com/Store/product_name=The+Collector+Series+Luxury+Chess+Set+-+4.0+inch+King/exact_match=exact/user-id=/password=
Regards,
Tom Watson
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/