Larry Jaques wrote:

whatsoever. I couldn't carve my way out of a wet paper bag with a CNC
carving machine.

So learn.

I'm not really all that interested in carving. I've tried my hand a time or
two, dating all the way back to the days when I used to make myself
replacement laser guns for my Star Wars action figures out of balsa.
Carving has never really tickled my fancy. For that kind of thing, I'd
much sooner work in clay, where I can put material back if I've removed too
much.

Heck, it wouldn't take much of your spare time, not more than
two or three hundred hours. Maybe less if you used a Foredom
Dremel, or HFT rotary tool for the fine details.

I do have a Dremel with a flex shaft attachment, but knights look like
complicated little critters. This is something I'd really rather trade for
beer, really. I'm hoping to hook up with a carver at some point.

I'll work up to the turning soon though. My biggest problem at this point
is with getting the pieces to look *just* like the prototype. I can get
the features in there, but I haven't had great success getting an accurate
reproduction of a turned salt shaker yet. I figure nail the salt shaker a
few times, and then try something much, much smaller.

(Or scale them up and make some honking bigass chessmen...

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