Having a lathe, at some point, the idea of turning a chess set comes up.
But there's that damned horse/knight thing. All the other pieces are
pretty straight foreward - pure turning. Not necessarily challenging,
though a good opportunity to play with a skew- curved edge of course.
Making 16 of the same thing could get a little boring. But there's
no reason why all the pawns have to look alike do there could be
opportunities to do variations.

But there's the knights. Turning a horse head might be a multi-axis
challenge - or an exercise in futility. Now if you have a bandsaw, or
a scroll saw . . . And if you've got a flex shaft and some burs . . .

So here's one approach - so far. An image file of a knight, some
primitive CAD to work out the cut sequence, and now it's just
grinding away everything that doesn't look like a horse head.

Have you got a method you'd be willing to share?

charlie b

Hi, I actually do have a chess set and made out of wood. Yes the Knight was
a challenge. I turned the bottom and fitted a head on top........
If interested I will send a pic.......did not see your pic?
jloomis
"charlieb" wrote in message
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Having a lathe, at some point, the idea of turning a chess set comes up.
But there's that damned horse/knight thing. All the other pieces are
pretty straight foreward - pure turning. Not necessarily challenging,
though a good opportunity to play with a skew- curved edge of course.
Making 16 of the same thing could get a little boring. But there's
no reason why all the pawns have to look alike do there could be
opportunities to do variations.

But there's the knights. Turning a horse head might be a multi-axis
challenge - or an exercise in futility. Now if you have a bandsaw, or
a scroll saw . . . And if you've got a flex shaft and some burs . . .

So here's one approach - so far. An image file of a knight, some
primitive CAD to work out the cut sequence, and now it's just
grinding away everything that doesn't look like a horse head.

Have you got a method you'd be willing to share?

charlie b

Attached are two image files I posted to a.b.p.w.

Carving the horse head first then turning a base for it
would be easier, but I want the grain to flow to be
continuous. But your approach provides more flexibility
(and limits a screw up resulting in trashing only one
part of the piece).

I would appreciate seeing how you solved The Knight
Challenge. I used to do lost wax casting and jewelry
so I have carving burs, engraving tools etc. for doing
small detailed carving. This may be an opportunity
to explore the wood carving branch of woodworking.

I look foreward to seeing your photos.

charlie belden
san jose, ca

"charlieb" wrote

Attached are two image files I posted to a.b.p.w.

Where are the attached files?

Lee Michaels wrote:

Where are the attached files?

Put up a page for you

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/T...ssPieces1.html

charlie b