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Step 13: STEP OF DOOM! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Step 14: Almost done with the board! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Step 15: Final preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Step 16: Final preparations, part 2 - Aerosol fumes are my frie- I CAN TASTE COLORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Step 17: Board Creation, ahoy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Step 18: Final result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Related Instructables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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Step 2: Piece-planning
Having decided that I'd go for a square-size of 1.25" per side, I now had to decide how I'd build up my pieces. I've made one of these sets before, so all the really difficult thought processes were handled - all I really needed to do was to map it out for myself. And so I did. (I may have adjusted some of these heights later on. I can't quite remember. Damn you, lousy medium-term-memory!) I realize that it's silly to draw out a box for each and every piece since, in theory at least, all of a given group (i.e. pawns) will end up being the same size. I did it anyway to help myself keep track of what I'd done, and where, and such.
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Image Notes 1. I math goodly. Just adding up and documenting (to counter possible mis-mathing later) the total length for the back-row pieces.
Step 3: Supplies!
I went and got stuff - and a LOT of it. I purchased: 1x 12"x12" (OR SO THEY CLAIMED! (more on that later) ) x0.5" wooden board 16x Acorn nut 1x box of like 70 hex nuts 32x washers 32x flange nuts 4x slotted nuts 4x wing nuts 4x drywall anchors 4x finials (again, more on that later) 5x 4"x10"x0.008" sheets of ...um, tin I think. 4x large flat angle brackets 4x smaller vertical angle brackets 1x 24"x12" piece of plexiglass 2x threaded rods @ 3' long x 0.25" diameter, 20-thread 1x bottle of superglue 2x Piece that I can never remember the name of - I'll highlight one in a future step 2x whiz nuts 1x can of metallic-fleck blue spray paint 4x flat metal pieces with holes pre-punched in 'em 24x flat-headed screws (not talking about slotted vs phillips here, I mean the actual head of the screw is flat. Not rounded, or hex-y, or whatnot.) 32x hex-headed slotted screws I already had on hand: a vise a hacksaw sharpies in red and black tape 1x can of sterling silver spray paint 4' of metal edging a power drill with assorted bits a centering punch an industrial strength (not even kidding) paper cutter. Seriously, this thing could cut your leg off without a lot of effort. Plus it's like 2 feet square, weighs like a ton. Trust me, you'd know if you had one.
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Image Notes 1. Bucket o' hex nuts 2. Acorn nuts! These actually came in four 4-packs, but I grouped 'em together here for convenience. 3. Test base 4. Test of the original blue paint I found in the workshop. Yuck.
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Image Notes 1. The whole apparatus - at this point, the flange nut is NOT, to the best of my recollection, glued on.
Image Notes 1. Flange nut and washer, becoming best friends forever
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1. I didn't spin this thing *up* initially, I spun the rest of the contraption *down*. Glee!
Image Notes 1. The key-shaped King head, which I later decided against. 2. I can't decide if this is more of a Samurai-ish head, or just a Big Honkin' Important Piece-ish head. 3. This is the original design for the rooks, with angles and sides alternating from layer to layer. It looks spiffy from this angle, but from any overhead point of view, it looks off-kilter to me.
Image Notes 1. Note the lack of flange nuts. The base that the queen already has is wider than the top of the flange nut, and thus, putting it on one looks goofy. I
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assembled the washer/queen-base exactly the same way that I did the other bases, with the spare rod, and the superglue, and so on.
Image Notes 1. Finials were a pain in the neck to find, largely cos I wasn't sure what they were actually *called* at first. I managed to find these at Ace Hardware - this is only part of what you actually buy, so don't be confused if you ask for finials and get a thicker cylindrical thing instead of this ;)
Image Notes 1. Lots of people seem to think these guys have poor balance - and I can totally see why. They're freakin' HUGE. Thing you gotta remember is that the head is *hollow*. The center of mass is still well over the base of the piece, so you really don't have to worry about balance too much. They do kinda poke the pawns in the head though...
Image Notes 1. I ended up having to superglue the nuts in place, one at a time, since they don't line up neatly if you just spin 'em down the rod. Clearly, this is a conspiracy designed to keep awesomeness such as this from becoming a global phenomenon. >.>
Image Notes 1. I'm pretty sure acorn nuts were designed for people to make chess pawn heads with.
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Image Notes 1. Holes to be drilled. You can barely see the notches that were made by the center-punch as little white dots in the larger red dots - these will keep the drill from sliding around on the smooth metal surface.
Image Notes 1. This screw's head has already been painted - I found an old silver scrapbooking-intended marker pen laying around and tested it out to see if it matched the spray paint - lo and behold, it did! Saves a lot of paint that would otherwise have been wasted on touch-ups and the like.
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Image Notes 1. By the end of the drilling, I was just using one of these and my hand - moving two clamps was just not going fast enough.
Image Notes 1. The diameter of the drill bit is almost exactly the same as the diameter of the screw, sans head and threads.
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Step 16: Final preparations, part 2 - Aerosol fumes are my frie- I CAN TASTE COLORS
Now all that's left to do is the clear-coating! For this step, I set up a mini-table in a separate room of the basement with a board and two sawhorses - I needed to be able to get all sides of the pieces with one spray, and not worry about missing undersides or what-not due to angles, and the low-to-the-ground boards I'd been using for the spray painting just wouldn't cut it. The reason I'm bothering with the clear coat at all is that I've noticed that the blue paint is prone to chipping. The silver paint might be too, but at least with the silver, it's still silver underneath. Much harder to see. In any case, for those of you who intend to make your own sets, if you use the clear coat, please don't do what I did and do it in the basement. You want a WELL VENTILATED AREA. Trust me on this. After viewing the photos, it's kinda hard to see that the pieces have been clearcoated - trust me though, the difference is MUCH more visible in person.
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Image Notes 1. I threw the drop cloth over the stuff back there to protect it from overspray.
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rogueaviation says:
I love this style of project. Loved the write up! Rock-on cottage industry (style) projects!!!!
Sevion says:
Wow, your girlfriend is a pretty lucky woman. :P
Dec 21, 2008. 11:23 PM REPLY excellent project I really liked how clean the final product looked in the case. I'm in need of a chess set while overseas and I can't bring myself to buy a boring old plastic one, this looks like a good project. A carpenter's rule of thumb, wood from a lumber yard is almost always shorter than they claim (that's what she said). It's a result of the width of the cutting tools, usually it's just as easy as asking for lumber cut to size if you don't have your own equipment, but I recommend bringing your own tape measure to the store for most projects
znelson710 says:
Dec 21, 2008. 7:13 PM REPLY This looks rally cool. I think the peices needed to be filled out more like with nuts all up and down, they look really skinny. this whole thing loks like its part of a contemperary art exhibit. you could have masked off the metal plates and cut the squares out of the tape then painted the metal instead of the squares being a separate material.
imshanedulong says:
Cool! I would make one, but I stink at chess (And yet I'm a nerd. Kinda ironic.).
jaredisasushi says:
This thing is amazing ;D
hihahockey says:
you know the dark squares and the white squares are in the wrong place
cybergeek says:
Not if you rotate the board 90 degrees they're not ;)
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sassygeckko says:
that is awesome dude!
cosgrove says:
Great Instructable, Had me laughing. I'd make my own, but I'd porbably end up forgetting a certain vital part.. 5/5
maclakey says:
Like the King?
maclakey says:
Jun 20, 2008. 10:58 PM REPLY Really very nice! I throughly enjoyed the beer I was drinking, oh, and of course, the well thought out and very humorous dialog throughout your instructable. I look forward to building my own!
cybergeek says:
Glad to hear it - send me a link to some pics when it's done! :-D
Koolraap says:
wow, thats SO cool. it's way prettier than those glass chessboards
cybergeek says:
Thanks! I'm thinking about maybe making myself one, but in green instead of blue...not sure if the paint exists, though :-\
Koolraap says:
green for a chess board ? wouln't do that tho. you could use yellow / purple :P
SpinWard says:
Mar 11, 2008. 9:06 AM REPLY This is beautiful. My dad doesn't play chess but he will think this is really cool! My mom work for a HVAC company and I can get them to cut the squares and bend some pieces for the edges. Thanks for the great idea!
cybergeek says:
My pleasure - I'd love to see how it turns out!
earthstation says:
Jan 4, 2008. 12:17 PM REPLY That is absolutely beautiful. I think I'm going to need to save up for a while to build this.... Just out of curiosity about how much did this cost you?
cybergeek says:
Jan 4, 2008. 1:07 PM REPLY All in all, probably in the area of $60-75, but I also had a lot of stuff that I didn't need to buy (like the edging, solid metal sheet, etc). Biggest cost, easily, was the spray paint and clear coat. If you can find a less-pricey alternative, you'll be sitting pretty. :D
papalevies says:
Feb 19, 2008. 10:46 AM REPLY Super cool project and very fine looking result but I wouldn't give it to a girl for Christmas (after all I'd rather keep it for myself ;). I hope she appreciated it.
edward32214 says:
This is AWESOME...i want one how much
Bor says:
I love it!
marcward86 says:
i really like the pieces. i was skeptical at first, but they turned out really well.
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bgugi says:
Dec 24, 2007. 9:09 PM REPLY with your board size complaint, did you not know that almost all modern wood measurements are the pre-shrunk measurements? they cut the wood green, measure, then dry, causing shrinkage. that's why your 12x12 was not 12x12.
cybergeek says:
Dec 24, 2007. 10:24 PM REPLY Aha! Thanks for the information - any idea *why* they do it like that? Seems to me like it'd be more helpful to the consumers (i.e. the people who pay everyone else to do all this) if the measurements were of the "current" sizes, instead of the "when it was fresh" sizes...
PKM says:
Dec 24, 2007. 4:30 PM REPLY Well documented and photographed, an original idea, beautiful design, your writing is amusing and the phrase "I math goodly" made me laugh like an idiot. I don't care if it's not finished yet, you get a + Looking forward to the conclusion!
mrmath says:
Is this done? You seem to have left off in mid build. How did you do the queen? How did you do the board?
cybergeek says:
Not finished yet. I finished that last step at like 5am and decided sleep would be good. More is soon to come! :D
T3h_Muffinator says:
Dude! That's awesome! I wanna make a giant version of this with welded pieces, that should be sick!
GorillazMiko says:
dang, thats freaking COOL!
Weissensteinburg says:
Now that's cool!
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