As to sanding, I would give mirka sandpaper a try. It is quite expensive but it lasts about twice as long as the next best thing. It is actually a hybrid fabricky sandpaper. The dust actually comes through the thing instead of building up on the surface. works really well, and I find I get a much better finish using that then conventional sandpaper. Ideally I would not need to sand when turning (I just use planes and scrapers on my flat work), but I'm not that good yet so this stuff works quite well.
Very cool James! Love your attitude and humility. Great reminder to your fellow rookies that patience can be a great substitute for experience - these look absolutely phenomenal!
Great set, James! One little point: Instead of filing that crown, make a small profiled chisel. And use very short, gentle taps with brass hammer. These will be well controlled and fine cuts. Than use rasp just for finishing touches. You do great job! Greets!
I really like this video. I have a colleague retiring this year, that does chess club at school. I am planning on turning a queen for him, so your video will be a great help to me. My little spin on it though, is that I give away a pen to retiring teachers. I think I will have the pen coming out of the bottom and it will sit on a base. It should make a nice desk pen. Thanks again for your videos.
HI James I am getting there. I have made the walnut pieces at one end and hopefully start the top ends by using ur block medath. then start on the white pieces. great fun.
Rather than use the Dremel router tools, i'd have tried a carbide grinder tip. This might require a slow speed to avoid burning the wood. Also, when I used the Dermel to carve a Knight, I used one of my father's small burrs. These are not Dremel tools, but rather are used in the Jewelry trade to cut mounting holes in gold setting for diamonds and other stones. These burrs have the same shanks as the Dremel tools, and will work in a Dremel Motor.
Hi James! Thanks to you I have started turning two chess sets. I am using black walnut and hard maple. I sand and finish with bees wax. Also I wanted to share with you a chuck I discovered by oneway. It's specially made for this application. I also discovered that with this chuck I didn't need to flip the pieces which eliminated that slight wobble due to a new center hold! I want to thank you for inspiring me :) I have never turned in my life and started because a client need to replace a few Victorian era spindles. I should have started with the chess set ;) keep up the good work and I look forward to your videos!
Wow Katelynn, I love hearing news like that! Thanks so much for watching, and for your comment! Please post a video of what you make - I'm subscribing!
Great series Jim. I'm just starting out with wood turning and have learned so much from your work. I will be attempting to make a chess set for my son's Christmas present. I better get started now. Thanks again for posting this series. Looking forward to the king piece.
Hi James, I have had a few accidents with some projects however I turned the damaged piece off and inserted a replacement piece using a spigot. With good grain matching you cannot see the join, saves your piece and hard work. Hope this helps. Great videos, Thanks. John G
I realize this is an older video.....but if you haven't noticed it yet, your chuck gives you 8 divisions. Tape a pointer of some sort to your headstock to indicate off the divisions in your chuck.....4 internal jaws then 4 more equally spaced between them by the external jaws.... Great work too BTW....
May I give you an idea? You could cut the half shadow profile of each peace in a flat iron sheet very sharp, maybe having very small tooth like a saw, and use it to lathe the peace slowly by pushing at once movement touching the round wood fixed on the lathe. Sorry, my technical English not so good on vocabulary. I love your work so much.
What you might could do for the crown is take the chain saw rasp, cut off a section of it and mount it in a drill. Awesome job thus far. I'm working on an 8 inch bowl out of cedar for my wife to put her ball of yarn in. So neat what you can do with a piece of fire wood, a lathe, and some imagination.
Nicely done, James. For what it's worth, the bit you were using in the Dremel was not a 'rasp'. It was a router bit. A rasp looks similar to a file, but with more aggressive teeth. Dremel tools are notoriously hard to control, laterally. A fixture for your dremel or a jig for your part would offer repeatable results, especially if you plan to make several of these. For a single piece, carving and filing (or sandpaper wrapped around a file) as you did is a much easier way to control your precision.
Great work! Allthough in the final part of this series I do hope to see these lovely pieces on a proper board! That grotty old vinyl board does the pieces no justice!
Wow James! really awesome work, especially for a first time chess build. i am a big fan of wood turning though the last time was in high school wood shop. LOVED that class! I think you did wise to hand carve the queens crown, since you only need to make two. it's fun to use power tools for certain phases of the project, but the hand carved edges only add to it's uniqueness on the more valuable pieces. Just waiting for your work on the kings and the board. Cheers!
Great job man! I've watched a bunch of your chess set vids, and its really encouraging. Now I'm looking to buy a lathe and get started. Thanks for making these videos!
Hi James it been a while since I have written so how are you hope you are well.I see you are up to the queen so the set must be just about all done I cant wait to see the finished Chess set I know it will be fantastic. I have been very busy building up stock for the night markets. I like the way you use the file for concave good use of what is on hand .OK for now I will see you later James John
john horsfall Hi John! One more queen and 2 kings - then adjusting the weights, adding the felt bottoms, and final finishing. It's been a hugely fun project and I've learned so much! Thank you so much for watching and for your comments!
You could draw the pieces on thin cardboard like a cereal packet, cut them out, then just keep the outside part, and cut it down the middle, so you have a template to offer up to the piece, so you cn keep all the pieces consistent
Excellent job! I really like the size of the Queen compared to the bishop. Great video. Are you going to make a video to show the placement of the weights and felt pieces?
Being someone who loves chess set I always wanted to try hand turning my own, since the peices are so clearly designed for it. But seeing how long it's taking you to do this... I'll stick with 3D printing.
Kisma 83 Wow - I'd love to make you one! But you should know - from raw wood to finish - each piece takes about 4.5 hours - or 144 hours for a set - plus the price of wood, and finishes. I've never worked for minimum wage - so send me a bid at jamesjwegner@gmail.com and I'll see if I can do one for you. Thanks for even thinking about it!
Beautiful piece James it is too bad you lost the crown on the prototype it was looking great as well that bit you showed didn't look like a rasp it looked more like a straight edge bit and that might have been the problem. Take care Albert
Great great great videos :) after I have seen the first video of a beautiful horse I decided that I want also make me own chess :) (from olive and oak wood) I wish you everything good Martin from Slovakia
I really enjoyed the video, as I have all the videos on the chess set. though I know this is well past the time when you turned this piece, a thought occurred to me. Could you have roughed out the diameter for the queen's head, then drilled eight holes in the circumference of that head piece at the crown line before you turned the final shape of the entire crown? I have not tried this, but it is just a thought for the future. Great chess set!
James, I'm a beginner at this, too, and am in the process of making a chess set as well. I've been experimenting with lots of different kinds of wood, usually having to glue two or more pieces together to get enough thickness for the pieces. Besides Walnut, what other woods have you had success with? BTW, I like your relaxed, honest style. You appear to be the kind of guy who makes the best of neighbors. Good luck to you.
+Morgan Fisher That could be. If I make another, I'm going to put the rounded blank into a vee block, and drill 8 holes with my drill press in the correct places to the correct depth. Then turn the piece. That should save a huge amount of time. Thank you for watching!
Jerry Andersen Thanks Jerry! I just keep checking with the caliper tools to keep them as close as I can. Some are a little off but oh well - I don't want them to look like they were made by a machine. Thanks for watching!
¡Guao!... tú me dirás a mi que yo estoy loco; pero ya he visto este mismo video 3 ó 4 veces... jajajajaja... ¡Excelente video!. Además la pieza de la Reina te quedó perfecta ¿Por qué digo esto?... Porque cuando tú terminaste de tallar la corona y la pequeña esfera en el tope de la pieza, ni la corona ni la esfera oscilaban de un lado para otro, si no que ambas se mantenían en el eje del cilindro de madera, lo cual es un signo de que la pieza ha sido tallada perfectamente... Si tú hubieras tallada la pequeña esfera de la corona unos milímetros aparado del eje del cilindro, cuando tú hagas girar la pieza, la pequeña esfera hará círculos, oscilara de un lado para el otro ya que no la tallaste justo en el centro, cosa que NO HA OCURRIDO en este video. /// ¿Podrías hacer un video en donde tú nos enseñes la manera cómo fabricar un tablero de ajedrez?, pero ¡¡Eso sí!!, por favor que ese video te quede tan magistral como éste que has filmado acá... ¡Gracias por el video! /// Otra pregunta: ¿Tú enseñas (das clases en persona) a tallar en madera?... ¿Enseñas en tu casa o en algún sitio que tengas destinado a tal propósito?... Deberías hacerlo, eres muy bueno en esto de tallar con el torno. Un saludo cordial desde Venezuela.
I really like your videos. I too have recently gotten in to turning and posting videos on my RUclips channel. What do you use for recording and editing your videos? Since watching I have decided to start making my own chess set.
+Larry Dillon That's great! You're going to have a lot of fun! I use Adobe Premier Pro - but I already had a subscription. Just Google for free video editing software. Thanks for watching!
That is a wonderful job, I like it so much. I noticed that you do finishing (adding the sealer and color..etc) while the piece is on the lathe, and not after you finish completely, any reason for that? what do you use for finishing beside the sealer?
Nice job on the queen. Question: When you are making the concave profile with the chainsaw file, is there a reason you are holding the file by the handle instead of the other end? Reason I ask is that the file would be "more aggressive" holding the file the other way. Teeth of the file have a direction like the teeth on a saw. I checked two of your other videos and you hold it the same way. Could be strickly by habit of course. May save a little bit of time is the reason I ask. Looking forward to the king. Dwight
Dwight L Hi Dwight. I really have not been paying attention to which way I begin holding it - but - as one side heats up (and it does) I switch sides - pretty frequently. I will put a handle on this file soon. Thanks for watching and for your comment!
I discovered in high school that I played better with bigger pieces. My high school chess club had a huge board with 1'-high pieces and I almost never lost when I used it. I have no idea what that says about my mental world...
Would it be possible before turning the top part the crown to mark your 8 points, then drill using small bit, then a dremel to hollow out the bottom of each hole. Then turn the rest of the top so it would leave only the bottom 1/3 of each hole leaving only the 8 equal points?
I have never done wood working, acctually, i have never worked but i would love to do things like this! How much does everything combinee cost? Like the electronics and the materials etc
Thanks James, this was very interesting and educational. I'm glad you showed your process, including mistakes.
As to sanding, I would give mirka sandpaper a try. It is quite expensive but it lasts about twice as long as the next best thing. It is actually a hybrid fabricky sandpaper. The dust actually comes through the thing instead of building up on the surface. works really well, and I find I get a much better finish using that then conventional sandpaper. Ideally I would not need to sand when turning (I just use planes and scrapers on my flat work), but I'm not that good yet so this stuff works quite well.
fleurdelispens I love this RUclips community! Everyone is so helpful! Thanks for watching and for your suggestion -- I will definitely look into it!
Very cool James! Love your attitude and humility. Great reminder to your fellow rookies that patience can be a great substitute for experience - these look absolutely phenomenal!
Daniel Allen Thanks Daniel for your very kind words. I appreciate them. Thanks for watching!
Great set, James! One little point: Instead of filing that crown, make a small profiled chisel. And use very short, gentle taps with brass hammer. These will be well controlled and fine cuts. Than use rasp just for finishing touches. You do great job! Greets!
Saša Minić Hey - thanks for the tip! And thanks for watching!
Beginner? LOL I can't wait to see when you experienced! :) Fantastic job
+DetectorOCD Nice of you to say! Thank you for watching!
Very true
I really like this video. I have a colleague retiring this year, that does chess club at school. I am planning on turning a queen for him, so your video will be a great help to me. My little spin on it though, is that I give away a pen to retiring teachers. I think I will have the pen coming out of the bottom and it will sit on a base. It should make a nice desk pen. Thanks again for your videos.
Aaron Sparrow Thanks Aaron - please post your queen when you're done - And thanks for watching!
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Thanks for watching!
HI James I am getting there. I have made the walnut pieces at one end and hopefully start the top ends by using ur block medath. then start on the white pieces. great fun.
That's great! Post a pic of your pieces. Thanks for watching!
@@BlackForestDesigns hi james i c if my son can post for me as I am not to sure how to post. thank u.
Great job. You have me interested in getting started turning wood. Thank you for filming my friend and again, great job.
Appreciate that! Thanks for watching!
Rather than use the Dremel router tools, i'd have tried a carbide grinder tip. This might require a slow speed to avoid burning the wood. Also, when I used the Dermel to carve a Knight, I used one of my father's small burrs. These are not Dremel tools, but rather are used in the Jewelry trade to cut mounting holes in gold setting for diamonds and other stones. These burrs have the same shanks as the Dremel tools, and will work in a Dremel Motor.
Hi James! Thanks to you I have started turning two chess sets. I am using black walnut and hard maple. I sand and finish with bees wax. Also I wanted to share with you a chuck I discovered by oneway. It's specially made for this application. I also discovered that with this chuck I didn't need to flip the pieces which eliminated that slight wobble due to a new center hold! I want to thank you for inspiring me :) I have never turned in my life and started because a client need to replace a few Victorian era spindles. I should have started with the chess set ;) keep up the good work and I look forward to your videos!
Wow Katelynn, I love hearing news like that! Thanks so much for watching, and for your comment! Please post a video of what you make - I'm subscribing!
Nice I love the Queen and it's always good to see the detail split in the bishops head.
A gorgeous queen. Really nice work. And a usefull comments during work. Thank you for your video.
I really enjoy your turning vids!Im getting ready to start turning the chest set today,with the help of your vids!
Beautiful. I'm useless in carpentry but you make me appreciate my China and India hand-crafted sets much much more. Thank you.
Great series Jim. I'm just starting out with wood turning and have learned so much from your work. I will be attempting to make a chess set for my son's Christmas present. I better get started now. Thanks again for posting this series. Looking forward to the king piece.
Thomas A. Umile Hey Thomas - thanks for watching and for your kind remarks! When you make your, please post it - I'd love to see it!
Well done! Thanks for sharing
I really love these kinda wide heavy handful queen!
Great Unique Work Sir!💐
Wow! For your first time making a Queen -vYou made it look very easy my friend . She looks great !
Chris Meadows Wow thank you! And thanks for watching!
You just keep up the awesome work and my friend I will keep on watching lol
They look better than the overpriced ones, I'd buy them for sure!
Thanks for watching!
nice work James keep up the good work,
Rod from the UK
Rodney Cambell Thanks for watching Rod!
Hi James, I have had a few accidents with some projects however I turned the damaged piece off and inserted a replacement piece using a spigot. With good grain matching you cannot see the join, saves your piece and hard work. Hope this helps. Great videos, Thanks. John G
I realize this is an older video.....but if you haven't noticed it yet, your chuck gives you 8 divisions. Tape a pointer of some sort to your headstock to indicate off the divisions in your chuck.....4 internal jaws then 4 more equally spaced between them by the external jaws....
Great work too BTW....
Thanks for watching!
Excellent job...! The set is looking really good...!
Cheers...
Thanks Adam - I appreciate it!
You are outstanding. I'm gonna start my own set thanks to you
Go for it!
May I give you an idea?
You could cut the half shadow profile of each peace in a flat iron sheet very sharp, maybe having very small tooth like a saw, and use it to lathe the peace slowly by pushing at once movement touching the round wood fixed on the lathe.
Sorry, my technical English not so good on vocabulary.
I love your work so much.
What you might could do for the crown is take the chain saw rasp, cut off a section of it and mount it in a drill.
Awesome job thus far.
I'm working on an 8 inch bowl out of cedar for my wife to put her ball of yarn in.
So neat what you can do with a piece of fire wood, a lathe, and some imagination.
Thank you for the kind words. And thanks for watching!
Nicely done, James. For what it's worth, the bit you were using in the Dremel was not a 'rasp'. It was a router bit. A rasp looks similar to a file, but with more aggressive teeth. Dremel tools are notoriously hard to control, laterally. A fixture for your dremel or a jig for your part would offer repeatable results, especially if you plan to make several of these. For a single piece, carving and filing (or sandpaper wrapped around a file) as you did is a much easier way to control your precision.
Syncubus Hey thanks for your suggestions, and thanks for watching!
It's a pleasure too watch you at work.
looks great james i always want to make a set some day i hope ill get there
Thanks Robbie! I love watching your videos too!
Great Job Mr. Wegner!
Thank you for the chess videos
Thanks for watching!
Nice video!!!! I really enjoyed watching it.
+Душан Цветковић Thank you for watching!
Wow very nice chess set, altogether at the end look gorgeous. I like the fact you did your own designe and details of the pieces, Congratulations!
Great work! Allthough in the final part of this series I do hope to see these lovely pieces on a proper board! That grotty old vinyl board does the pieces no justice!
Laurence Livsey So right Laurence - the vinyl board is from my tournament days. Will get to a "real" one soon! Than ks for watching.
Wow James! really awesome work, especially for a first time chess build. i am a big fan of wood turning though the last time was in high school wood shop. LOVED that class! I think you did wise to hand carve the queens crown, since you only need to make two. it's fun to use power tools for certain phases of the project, but the hand carved edges only add to it's uniqueness on the more valuable pieces. Just waiting for your work on the kings and the board. Cheers!
Bill Kucera Thanks Bill!
Very nice, inspiring!
I found this while looking for videos on making chess pieces, your videos are helpful. Thanks
Glad to help! Thanks for watching!
Great job man! I've watched a bunch of your chess set vids, and its really encouraging. Now I'm looking to buy a lathe and get started. Thanks for making these videos!
+Matt Cahill Yes - get started! Great fun! Thank you for watching!
Nice looking queen!
McGinn's WoodShop Thanks! Appreciate you watching!
Excellent stealthy set!
Another fine piece to add to the set James
Stevie 406 Thanks Steve - I appreciate it!
Very nice
+John Raimondo Thanks for watching!
Turning wood is so fun. But you make it look so easy.
Barrett Friesen Appreciate that Barrett! Thanks for watching!
Good idea with the Dremill, but the wrong bit. Next time try a pointed grinder tip.
Yup. Thanks for watching!
Hi James it been a while since I have written so how are you hope you are well.I see you are up to the queen so the set must be just about all done I cant wait to see the finished Chess set I know it will be fantastic. I have been very busy building up stock for the night markets. I like the way you use the file for concave good use of what is on hand .OK for now I will see you later James
John
john horsfall Hi John! One more queen and 2 kings - then adjusting the weights, adding the felt bottoms, and final finishing. It's been a hugely fun project and I've learned so much! Thank you so much for watching and for your comments!
Just plain awesome! Thanks for the video.
Wood turning is a cool art
Turning out beautifully. You do great work with your skew. Hope to get to your level some day.
Jim
Jim Holladay Thanks Jim. The skew is a tough nut to crack. When I make a giant mistake - it's usually with the skew. Thanks for watching!
Very cool chess set!
Thanks for watching!
Very nice turnings!! Don't know if I'll have the patience when I get my new lathe set up!! I'll certainly try to emulate your skills!
Very good
Thanks for watching!
Man that is great. Ive wanted to make my self a set for years now just havnt gotten into yet. They look great.
Thanks for watching!
fantastic job, beautiful!
Thanks for watching!
You could draw the pieces on thin cardboard like a cereal packet, cut them out, then just keep the outside part, and cut it down the middle, so you have a template to offer up to the piece, so you cn keep all the pieces consistent
Excellent job! I really like the size of the Queen compared to the bishop. Great video. Are you going to make a video to show the placement of the weights and felt pieces?
***** Yes! The last in the series will be the weights, felt bottoms, and final finishing of all pieces. Thanks for watching!
That's very cool!God job!
Bálint Horváth Thank you so much - I appreciate it!
This was fantastic, thanks for sharing it with us.
Looks amazing
Appreciate that - Thanks for watching!
Being someone who loves chess set I always wanted to try hand turning my own, since the peices are so clearly designed for it. But seeing how long it's taking you to do this... I'll stick with 3D printing.
enjoyed your queen video ,try a 1/16 stump cutter for the crown you can get them at any woodcarver's supply store.
+Stan Judd Thanks - will try it!
Nobody ever starts with the knight. :D
LOL. Thanks for watching!
Very nice I am about to start one myself did the board to day.
Thanks for watching!
that was fantastic Mr. James!
Kisma 83 Appreciate it Kisma. Thanks for watching!
James Wegner i wonder if i could order one set?and how will that cost?
Kisma 83 Wow - I'd love to make you one! But you should know - from raw wood to finish - each piece takes about 4.5 hours - or 144 hours for a set - plus the price of wood, and finishes. I've never worked for minimum wage - so send me a bid at jamesjwegner@gmail.com and I'll see if I can do one for you. Thanks for even thinking about it!
Beautiful piece James it is too bad you lost the crown on the prototype it was looking great as well that bit you showed didn't look like a rasp it looked more like a straight edge bit and that might have been the problem.
Take care
Albert
Thanks Al. You are probably correct. My non-steady hands did not help much either - lol! Thanks for watching!
truly a art great job
Thanks for watching!
Great job again.
Great great great videos :)
after I have seen the first video of a beautiful horse I decided that I want also make me own chess :) (from olive and oak wood)
I wish you everything good
Martin from Slovakia
Martin Mark Thanks Martin for your kind words, and for watching!
a small rasp in the dremel would most likely work well, or a small sanding sleeve. Looks good though. Nice work.
Appreciate that! Thanks for watching!
I love your work, you should build a store that sells your work.
that is so awesome!!!
Thanks for watching!
I really enjoyed the video, as I have all the videos on the chess set. though I know this is well past the time when you turned this piece, a thought occurred to me. Could you have roughed out the diameter for the queen's head, then drilled eight holes in the circumference of that head piece at the crown line before you turned the final shape of the entire crown? I have not tried this, but it is just a thought for the future. Great chess set!
Great idea Jerry! Will try it on the next one. Thanks for watching!
man o man ,this was great ,i hope i can buy a lathe so i can work like you! :)
Thanks for watching!
James, I'm a beginner at this, too, and am in the process of making a chess set as well. I've been experimenting with lots of different kinds of wood, usually having to glue two or more pieces together to get enough thickness for the pieces. Besides Walnut, what other woods have you had success with? BTW, I like your relaxed, honest style. You appear to be the kind of guy who makes the best of neighbors. Good luck to you.
Nice job James ! A burr in the Drexel will have much finer "teeth" and have much less chance of tear out.
Gerry Montie Thanks for the suggestion Gerry! Have not done the white queen yet - may try that. Thanks for watching!
I love the chuck :-)
Yes - that was clever. Found that on Luke Sellers channel. Thanks for watching!
Damn, how unfortunate that prototype queen got torn up a bit. Looks really great after everything.
Thanks for watching!
Hell yeah, it's a keeper!
+ colmhain Thanks for watching!
Personally, I would have waited until the shaping was done and sanded to apply the stain.
Thanks for watching!
@@BlackForestDesigns Yep. Also, I just fixed a typo I made in the original comments.
I want to be that beginner!!
+Jesús Restrepo Oh - I am! Thanks for watching!
Superb Craftmanship! What are you planning for the Board?
+ Avabel Toudou My son will be making the board. Thank you for watching!
+James Wegner Are you going to film it?
Great job. I`m wondering if you could have used a larger round bit for your dremel to cut the grooves in the crown.
+Morgan Fisher That could be. If I make another, I'm going to put the rounded blank into a vee block, and drill 8 holes with my drill press in the correct places to the correct depth. Then turn the piece. That should save a huge amount of time. Thank you for watching!
Boy does that look Great!! Can you talk about how you get the size so right?
Jerry Andersen Thanks Jerry! I just keep checking with the caliper tools to keep them as close as I can. Some are a little off but oh well - I don't want them to look like they were made by a machine. Thanks for watching!
nice job.....
¡Guao!... tú me dirás a mi que yo estoy loco; pero ya he visto este mismo video 3 ó 4 veces... jajajajaja... ¡Excelente video!. Además la pieza de la Reina te quedó perfecta ¿Por qué digo esto?... Porque cuando tú terminaste de tallar la corona y la pequeña esfera en el tope de la pieza, ni la corona ni la esfera oscilaban de un lado para otro, si no que ambas se mantenían en el eje del cilindro de madera, lo cual es un signo de que la pieza ha sido tallada perfectamente... Si tú hubieras tallada la pequeña esfera de la corona unos milímetros aparado del eje del cilindro, cuando tú hagas girar la pieza, la pequeña esfera hará círculos, oscilara de un lado para el otro ya que no la tallaste justo en el centro, cosa que NO HA OCURRIDO en este video. /// ¿Podrías hacer un video en donde tú nos enseñes la manera cómo fabricar un tablero de ajedrez?, pero ¡¡Eso sí!!, por favor que ese video te quede tan magistral como éste que has filmado acá... ¡Gracias por el video! /// Otra pregunta: ¿Tú enseñas (das clases en persona) a tallar en madera?... ¿Enseñas en tu casa o en algún sitio que tengas destinado a tal propósito?... Deberías hacerlo, eres muy bueno en esto de tallar con el torno. Un saludo cordial desde Venezuela.
+ Chane Garcia I appreciate your kind words! Thank you for watching!
It's looking great! Although it looks like you are going to have to build an awesome chess board to go with the pieces next.
Wood Corner Thanks! Yes - still thinking about the perfect chess board for this. Thanks for watching!
I really like your videos. I too have recently gotten in to turning and posting videos on my RUclips channel. What do you use for recording and editing your videos? Since watching I have decided to start making my own chess set.
+Larry Dillon That's great! You're going to have a lot of fun! I use Adobe Premier Pro - but I already had a subscription. Just Google for free video editing software. Thanks for watching!
thank you good sir!
+Darrell Angeles Thank you for watching!
That is a wonderful job, I like it so much. I noticed that you do finishing (adding the sealer and color..etc) while the piece is on the lathe, and not after you finish completely, any reason for that? what do you use for finishing beside the sealer?
Thanks. Just seemed easier for me. Thanks for watching!
you are best I like you're lathe chuk
Thanks for watching!
what chuck are you using? and can you link me to where i can buy it? thanks
Hi James. Just subscribe. I like your challenge of making chess pieces. Well done. Marc
muziqjazz Thanks for watching Marc!
Post a video doing a chessboard. Congratulations, very good job. Wander Souza. Brazil.
Wander Souza I will certainly post the chessboard video. Thanks for watching!
Hi James with the sanding and finishing of the Knight would a Dremel Tool help speed up production?
Might. Will try that next time. Thanks for watching!
Nice job on the queen. Question: When you are making the concave profile with the chainsaw file, is there a reason you are holding the file by the handle instead of the other end? Reason I ask is that the file would be "more aggressive" holding the file the other way. Teeth of the file have a direction like the teeth on a saw. I checked two of your other videos and you hold it the same way. Could be strickly by habit of course. May save a little bit of time is the reason I ask. Looking forward to the king.
Dwight
Dwight L Hi Dwight. I really have not been paying attention to which way I begin holding it - but - as one side heats up (and it does) I switch sides - pretty frequently. I will put a handle on this file soon. Thanks for watching and for your comment!
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I discovered in high school that I played better with bigger pieces. My high school chess club had a huge board with 1'-high pieces and I almost never lost when I used it. I have no idea what that says about my mental world...
Thanks for watching!
Awesome! You call yourself a beginner?!
+Cal McElroy But I am! Thank you for watching!
Would it be possible before turning the top part the crown to mark your 8 points, then drill using small bit, then a dremel to hollow out the bottom of each hole. Then turn the rest of the top so it would leave only the bottom 1/3 of each hole leaving only the 8 equal points?
+ teknonut1946 Not a bad idea. Will try that on the next one. Thank you for watching!
I have never done wood working, acctually, i have never worked but i would love to do things like this! How much does everything combinee cost? Like the electronics and the materials etc
TheJeScast It's not too expensive.
need the pattern you used to make chess pieces
No pattern - sorry. Thanks for watching!