jtpr wrote:
> Charlie M. 1958 wrote:
>> I had a few days off over the holidays, so I tried to put them to good
>> use making sawdust....
>>
>> http://www.loyno.edu/~cbmarsh/holidayprojects.htm
>
> Very nice. I'd like to do a chessboard like that for my son. How
> difficult was it to make the top? Any tips?
>
> -Jim
>
The real secret to the top was a tip I stumbled across in a magazine:
Start by gluing up 8 alternating-color strips in whatever width you want
the final squares to be. In other words, for a 16 x 16 board, use 2" x
8" strips. Once this dries, recut the panel into 8 strips again going in
the opposite direction across the two colors. Now if you invert every
other strip and glue them back together, you are left with a perfect
chessboard (hopefully). I came back and glued trim around the outside
edges just to finish it off.
It was not too hard, but I would caution that you try to be very precise
in your cuts. I have a cheap table saw with a fence to match, and that
made the process a little more difficult than it should have been.
Charlie
Beautiful work
"Charlie M. 1958" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I had a few days off over the holidays, so I tried to put them to good use
>making sawdust....
>
> http://www.loyno.edu/~cbmarsh/holidayprojects.htm
>
Nice work. And luckly for us, they didn't make blu-ray cases the
same size as dvd cases, thus ensuring pretty much continual work
in the media storage construction field.
Charlie M. 1958 <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had a few days off over the holidays, so I tried to put them to good
> use making sawdust....
>
> http://www.loyno.edu/~cbmarsh/holidayprojects.htm
>