Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

Well this doesn't entirely answer your question, but have you checked out
the new chess set pieces that Woodcraft has in their new catalog. You turn
the bodies using the pen mandrel and pen barrels. I just thought it was
interesting, and there was no carving involved. I wouldn't mind doing one of
those myself someday. Peace.


On 9/5/03 6:51 PM, in article ,
"fipster" wrote:

Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for the
lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

try this site
http://www.shopsmithhandson.com/arch...oney_maker.htm
should do what u need
Pete
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 00:34:00 GMT, Nick Silva
wrote:

Well this doesn't entirely answer your question, but have you checked out
the new chess set pieces that Woodcraft has in their new catalog. You turn
the bodies using the pen mandrel and pen barrels. I just thought it was
interesting, and there was no carving involved. I wouldn't mind doing one of
those myself someday. Peace.


On 9/5/03 6:51 PM, in article ,
"fipster" wrote:

Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for the
lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

In article , Peter wrote:
try this site
http://www.shopsmithhandson.com/arch...oney_maker.htm
should do what u need
Pete

Speaking as a chessplayer... the knight in that set sucks.

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 00:34:00 GMT, Nick Silva
wrote:

Well this doesn't entirely answer your question, but have you checked out
the new chess set pieces that Woodcraft has in their new catalog. You turn
the bodies using the pen mandrel and pen barrels. I just thought it was
interesting, and there was no carving involved. I wouldn't mind doing one of
those myself someday. Peace.


On 9/5/03 6:51 PM, in article ,
"fipster" wrote:

Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for the
lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)


--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

Doug Miller wrote:

Speaking as a chessplayer... the knight in that set sucks.

When I play all of my chess pieces suck. ;-)

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA

By an odd coincidence, I spent a few minutes at B&N on Thursday and browsed
through the woodworking magazines. I looked at "Popular Woodworking", and
two British pubs - one was "Practical Woodworking" and I think the other is
just "Woodworking" One of the three showed the palns for a turned-only
chess set. In deference to other posts, the knight didn't look as though it
would whinny, but it looked to be a reasonably easy set to produce.

Good luck!

Ron Williams
Minn-Dak Woodturners
Moorhead, MN

"fipster" wrote in message
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Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for
the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

Somewhere, and I can't recall where, I saw a knight that was turned with a
tapering form and then parted flat on top. Then, the piece was cut at about
50 degrees through this taper. The cut "nose" piece was rotated 180 degrees
so that the two cut surfaces met. With the 50 degrees cut, the "nose" piece
had a 10 degrees downward tilt. So, the piece was mostly turned with a bit
of diagonal cutting and gluing. I presume a bit of hand sanding was
required to blend the two oval mating surfaces.

As for sources of ideas, I believe I have seen ideas and/or plans in Bill
Jones' books, in Mike Darlow's books and in "Woodwork" magazine, among
others.

Joe Fleming - San Diego
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"fipster" wrote in message
...
Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for
the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

Hmmm, I like the 'idea' approach - inspiration! I've been toying with
making a nautical set on the scrollsaw. Neptune & a Mermaid (King &
Queen of course) have me stumped as I can't carve for beans and I'm
still quite new to the scrollsaw. But a 3D sailboat for a Bishop,
Seahorse for a Knight, Lighthouse for a Rook and maybe a Clam, Starfish,
Pelican, Anchor or Ships Wheel for Pawns are doable - for me anyway.
Since I want to do our 17x22 den in a nautical theme, such a set on a
ships wheel coffee table would look great methinks. Arrrggghhh Matey!

Joe Fleming wrote:

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As for sources of ideas, I believe I have seen ideas and/or plans in Bill
Jones' books, in Mike Darlow's books and in "Woodwork" magazine, among
others.

In Mike Darlow's book "Woodturning Design" there is a set of chessmen called
Lopez, the knight looks like a knight.

On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 6:53:09 PM UTC-5, fipster wrote:
Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

James Wegner has a few videos on turning chess pieces. I am about to turn my own also. Good Luck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkUebt6lGNc

On 2015-04-19 00:22:26 +0000, said:

On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 6:53:09 PM UTC-5, fipster wrote:
Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for
the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

James Wegner has a few videos on turning chess pieces. I am about to
turn my own also. Good Luck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkUebt6lGNc

You realize the question is from over a decade ago right?

On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 7:53:09 PM UTC-4, fipster wrote:
Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

Not entirely turned, but no real carving either-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlJ7tB04_E0

On 2015-04-19 12:39:48 +0000, Lewis Kauffman said:

On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 7:53:09 PM UTC-4, fipster wrote:
Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for
the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

Not entirely turned, but no real carving either-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlJ7tB04_E0

Interesting but old, the question was from nearly 12 years ago

How about designing your own. Consider what my Dad had many years ago
that came apart and was destroyed in a flood.

All the pawn's the same - smallest. Could be a small ball with a
smaller one on top.

Then the back row.

Turrets / castles - make it a small ball with a 2/3's size of ball
cylinder coming out of the ball. It isn't tall, but then cut out of
different material (it was Bull horn ivory - green and cracked) and make
a tube that slides over the cylinder completely and in the top - saw in
the 4 corners.

Knights - small ball with long cylinder from it - slice out the head
shape with a saw centering it on the ball.

Bishops - medium ball with a small ball with a smaller cylinder on top.
The small cylinder is covered with another simple crown hat that comes
up and has four creases. Use a round file to 'saw' a cross in the hat top.

And so on - having a crown 8 sided and the King with a 8 sided and cross
- cut from an smaller cylinder...

So with a lathe, file, and saw one could do the task.

In years past, I've used files (carefully) on the wood blank on the
lathe. Be very careful if you use cloth or sand paper in the hand
and reaching around a spinning item. Grabbing can wrap you around that
wood.

Martin [ transmitting from 2015 to 2015 ]

On 4/20/2015 9:41 AM, Ralph E Lindberg wrote:
On 2015-04-19 12:39:48 +0000, Lewis Kauffman said:

On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 7:53:09 PM UTC-4, fipster wrote:
Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs
for the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

Not entirely turned, but no real carving either-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlJ7tB04_E0

Interesting but old, the question was from nearly 12 years ago

On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 7:51:29 PM UTC-4, fipster wrote:
Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs for the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)