Carving Chess Pieces
Posted on Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 4:01 am
Making Chess pieces
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Wooden Chess Sets You Can Make $7.65 Designed for serious woodworkers, weekend crafters, and chess enthusiasts, this collection of nine different chess designs includes traditional designs of kings, rooks, and pawns as well as butterfly-themed and tool-themed designs. Using the popular compound cutting technique, woodworkers can create dramatic three-dimensional pieces by wrapping the patterns provided around a block of wood and cutt… |
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The Lewis Chessmen (Objects in Focus) (Objects in Focus) $5.34 These enchanting chess pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales’ teeth in the form of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns in the shape of obelisks. They were found in the vicinity of Uig on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, in mysterious circumstances some time before 11th April 1831. Various stories have evolved to expl… |
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Making Wooden Chess Sets: 15 One-of-a-Kind Projects for the Scroll Saw (Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Book) $12.40 Chess pieces and their boards are a thing of beauty that serious players often like to display around their home. The 15 one-of-a-kind designs in this book are sure to become conversation pieces, like the Berlin, with its vertical board that mounts to the wall. Other patterns in the book are inspired by the beautiful cities of Paris, San Francisco, and Venice. From classical to modern these chess… |
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Rajasthan Stone Art Unique Chess Sets and Board $53.49 A unique chess set and board that can be used as chess for playing, as decorating item, and also as a collectible piece from India. Stone carving artisans of Rajasthan have intricately carved the stone pieces. The chess sets and board come in a neat wooden box. The top of the box has stone board well fixed in a frame. When not playing, the chess pieces can be securely kept inside the box. The insi… |
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Soapstone Carved Chess Set $26.65 29385 Three colors of soapstone inlay form the board of this unique chess set. Pieces range from 1 3/4″ to 2 3/4″ high. Board 12″ x 12″ x 1 3/4″ high. Set… |
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Wood Carving Chess Games Sets Pieces and Board Handcrafted Gifts India $127.99 Chess games set made in pure wood. Elegantly handcrafted by the wood artisans from north west India. The pieces are stored in the storage area opening like a drawer on the two sides of the chess box. This is not just a chess board pieces set, but also a collectible piece that you would be proud to own and give as a present to your friends and family…. |