Chessboard

[Paul Phillips]

I haven't been able to give back much but thought this might be one people would like. I threw this together over the weekend as a birthday gift for my son, sort of a Lord of the rings theme, I used an "Elvish" font for his name (Gregory) and found a Dwarfish runes font that I used for various other personalized words, the verse at the bottom is the first line from the song that the dwarves sing in the book (and movie) the Hobbit. I just borrowed some ideas that I have seen over the years of searching this site, the chess pieces I used from the Epilog chess set. I just resized the OG live hinge box file and scaled it up for 4mm BB from HD with a laquer finish and a piece of cherry from laserbits. I think my next one I will use a piece of white corian and fill with black. I'm posting the file I used in case anybody wants it, it's sized for my 32"x18" ULS machine. The chess board itself is about 9.75", I wasn't sure what to do to hold the chess pieces so I just grabbed a sample box I had laying around and put some extra walls in it. I wish I had more time to make it a little nicer but My son was very happy with it. Enjoy!
Paul
PS. Oops, file's too big, I'll post separate.
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[Paul Phillips]

Here's the first file, had to split it up, saved as ver12.
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Trying to figure out how to save the chessboard part from 2mb to 488kb, will post it asap.

[Paul Phillips]

Trying to figure this out, ok, the file I used was way to big to post, but I was able to take a piece of it and save it so you can just duplicate it to reproduce the whole board, sorry for the mess, I was hoping this would be easier, but at least it's recreatable for someone. the square holes fit the 3mm acrylic perfectly. I just used white and black acrylic for the pieces, the circles are for checkers.251389
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[Mike Null]

Paul

That's a neat gift and very nice work as well.

Thanks for sharing the file.

[Chad Fitzgerald]

thanks, i love it.
4mm, ?? i have 1/8(3mm)and 1/4(5mm) bb plywood. is 4mm, 3/16?? curious
thanks again.

[Paul Phillips]

Chad, it mic's at .18" so I assume it's 4mm, but that would actually be closer to 4.5mm so maybe it's 3/16"? Can't remember, I've had it laying around for awhile.

[Dee Gallo]

That's a unique take on a chess board, very personalized for a young kid - plus it has its own storage, good going! I like the squares with the holes, very nice design.

cheers, dee

[Paul Phillips]

Thanks Dee, that means a lot coming from you. :) I think I will do more as gifts for friends and family and will post the refinements/improvements. The "young kid" is actually turning 23, (I can't be that old!)
PS. Just joined the grandparent club last year also!

[Jim Dawson]

great looking piece!

[Keith Outten]

Here's the first file, had to split it up, saved as ver12.
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Trying to figure out how to save the chessboard part from 2mb to 488kb, will post it asap.

Paul,

You can upload a zip file up to 2 meg.
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[Paul Phillips]

'Doh! (Slaps head) Thanks Kieth, now I know (It's actually 1.91mb) Ok, so here's the whole file for whoever wants it.

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[Paul Phillips]

Also, thought this would be nice for someone to have, some celtic clipart I've gathered including a celtic style chess board in case you want to change the theme. Also the Tolkien fonts I used.

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[Gus Dundon]

Nicely done! The design is excellent. It really looks good.