On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:58:04 -0500, Silvan
brought forth from the murky depths:

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

So don't learn, Grasshoppah.


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.

Yeah, a drunken carver'd do a right proud job, woonhe?


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.

g


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

4-footers are for sale online somewhere.


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