Chess set plans for the lathe

Not entirely turned, but no real carving either-

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.

Mart> >