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.

Martin [ transmitting from 2015 to 2015 ]

On 4/20/2015 9:41 AM, Ralph E Lindberg wrote:
On 2015-04-19 12:39:48 +0000, Lewis Kauffman said:

On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 7:53:09 PM UTC-4, fipster wrote:
Does anybody know of any web sites dealing with chess piece designs
for the lathe. I would like to
make all the pieces entirely on the lathe (no carving)

Not entirely turned, but no real carving either-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlJ7tB04_E0

Interesting but old, the question was from nearly 12 years ago