Woodturning a Modern Chess Set

In this video I am woodturning a modern chess set out of hickory. The design was inspired by French artist Yves Tanguy who created his well-known design in the late 1930s. These pieces are intended to fit on the regulation size, end-grain chess board that I made that has individual squares that are 2 ¼” x 2 ¼”.

I was hoping that the hickory would have been dense/heavy enough for the pieces, but they just didn’t feel right, so I ended up adding some lead weights into the bottom of each piece. I also show you how to apply felt to the bottoms of the pieces.

General guidelines for how I sized the pieces:

1) The base of the king should have a diameter that is about 75% of the width of a square on the chess board.
2) The height of the king should be in the range of 2 – 2.5 times the diameter of the base
3) The base of the pawn should be sized to be able to comfortably fit four pawns onto a square on the chess board.

I’ve seen some modern chess sets that have some ambiguity when it comes to identifying the pieces, so I tried to incorporate aspects into my design to make it clear what each piece is without have to compare with another piece to figure it out.

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