Chess boards...

Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 12:25am [email protected] (Silvan) says:
I'm getting ready t <snip> I'm just trying to think up a way to do it
that isn't *too* ambitious or too Norm intensive. <snip>

From out of the archives, in a cloud of sawdust, thunders - CHESS
BOARD.
http://www.valrosewoodworks2.homestead.com/fEndCoffeeTableMakeChessBrd.html
About the only way you can get less ambitious about making one is making
one out of tiles.

Don't any of you guys ever check the archives?

JOAT
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George wrote:

> Yep, that's the way the kids do theirs. Seems every third or fourth time
> someone forgets the lecture about allowing for kerf width, though, and
> ends up seven by eight and trying to match the rest....

Just FWIW I had already made a mental note not to forget to allow for kerf
width. :)

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T. wrote:

> Don't any of you guys ever check the archives?

Yeah, I usually do, but for some reason... Well, I really have no answer to
that. STFW and all that. Touché.

Thanks for the link to all the purty pictures though.

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Yep, that's the way the kids do theirs. Seems every third or fourth time
someone forgets the lecture about allowing for kerf width, though, and ends
up seven by eight and trying to match the rest....

Had one kid make one of tiles inside a round tabletop. Looked pretty good,
too.

"T." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 12:25am [email protected] (Silvan) says:
> I'm getting ready t <snip> I'm just trying to think up a way to do it
> that isn't *too* ambitious or too Norm intensive. <snip>
>
> From out of the archives, in a cloud of sawdust, thunders - CHESS
> BOARD.
>
http://www.valrosewoodworks2.homestead.com/fEndCoffeeTableMakeChessBrd.html
> About the only way you can get less ambitious about making one is making
> one out of tiles.

Michael wrote:

> Glue two inch planed strips, like a butcher block board, so that you have
> a board 16 inches wide. Let it dry. Probably should use cauls.
>
> Then two inch strips against the grain and plane. Then align them so they
> are a checkerboard and glue again.

Hrm... Shouldda thought of something like that on my own. It's a much
easier way of looking at it than anything I was pondering.

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"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I'm getting ready to make a nice chess box for Dad, and I want to make a
> real board this time.
>
> I can think of lots of ways to do it. Squares of veneer, dark one-piece
> board with light inlays, plywood with ~1/8" thick squares glued on...
>
> I don't have a bandsaw. My table saw is not much good for resawing. I'll
> be thicknessing the wood by hand. That makes thin-square ideas
> unattractive.
>
> So I'm thinking of a bunch of squares say 1" thick, and thinking about how I
> could build such a thing so that it wouldn't explode or wrench itself out
> of shape.
>
> It sounds like a bitchy glue-up without mechanical alignment for one thing.
> I don't have a biscuit joiner or a T&G bit or anything like that, so I'd be
> thinking of maybe cutting T&G on my table saw (if I can work out a way to
> get it to come out consistently, that is) or using dowels to assemble the
> whole thing like a bunch of Tinker Toys...
>
> Also, I'm playing with the idea of doing a split board with dual hinges, so
> it could open in clamshell fashion. That would solve the problem of what
> to do with the awkwardly huge lid of this thing, but it would be a lot
> harder to execute successfully.
>
> Anyway, just some initial thoughts. I know there are a lot of ways to skin
> this particular cat. I'm just trying to think up a way to do it that isn't
> *too* ambitious or too Norm intensive. I've never tried to assemble
> anything made from that many little pieces before.
>
> --
> Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
> http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/

You probably know how to do this but I'll tell you anyway. I'll tell you how
I make a chess or checker boad. Saw 9 strips of alternating dark and light wood,
1 5/8 " wide by 15 " long by 3/4 " thick. Glue these strips together by
alternating light and dark wood. After glue sets, use your table saw to cut
cross ways 9 strips 1 5/8" wide. that will provide 9 squares on each strip.
Reverse every other strip and lay side by side into a checkerboard. Some
adjustment on the length of the strips may be necessary. Glue the strips
together into a checkerboard. Cut the ends even on the table saw. Sand smooth
and cut and mitre some border pieces. Glue and clamp the boarder pieces

Good luck
Bill
>

"T." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Sat, Nov 8, 2003, 12:25am [email protected] (Silvan) says:
> I'm getting ready t <snip> I'm just trying to think up a way to do it
> that isn't *too* ambitious or too Norm intensive. <snip>
>
> From out of the archives, in a cloud of sawdust, thunders - CHESS
> BOARD.
>
http://www.valrosewoodworks2.homestead.com/fEndCoffeeTableMakeChessBrd.html
> About the only way you can get less ambitious about making one is making
> one out of tiles.
>
> Don't any of you guys ever check the archives?

Naaa, what would you have to do if everyone checked the archives :)
>

Glue two inch planed strips, like a butcher block board, so that you have
a board 16 inches wide. Let it dry. Probably should use cauls.

Then two inch strips against the grain and plane. Then align them so they
are a checkerboard and glue again.

Good luck.

M.


"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm getting ready to make a nice chess box for Dad, and I want to make a
> real board this time.
>
> I can think of lots of ways to do it. Squares of veneer, dark one-piece
> board with light inlays, plywood with ~1/8" thick squares glued on...
>
> I don't have a bandsaw. My table saw is not much good for resawing. I'll
> be thicknessing the wood by hand. That makes thin-square ideas
> unattractive.
>
> So I'm thinking of a bunch of squares say 1" thick, and thinking about how
I
> could build such a thing so that it wouldn't explode or wrench itself out
> of shape.
>
> It sounds like a bitchy glue-up without mechanical alignment for one
thing.
> I don't have a biscuit joiner or a T&G bit or anything like that, so I'd
be
> thinking of maybe cutting T&G on my table saw (if I can work out a way to
> get it to come out consistently, that is) or using dowels to assemble the
> whole thing like a bunch of Tinker Toys...
>
> Also, I'm playing with the idea of doing a split board with dual hinges,
so
> it could open in clamshell fashion. That would solve the problem of what
> to do with the awkwardly huge lid of this thing, but it would be a lot
> harder to execute successfully.
>
> Anyway, just some initial thoughts. I know there are a lot of ways to
skin
> this particular cat. I'm just trying to think up a way to do it that
isn't
> *too* ambitious or too Norm intensive. I've never tried to assemble
> anything made from that many little pieces before.
>
> --
> Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
> http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
>