Wooden Chess Board With Drawer Plans

Trim all four edges to be sure they are smooth and flush.

Wooden chess board with drawer plans.

Select the contrasting wood species you desire gather up some glue and a few other tools and materials and you re ready to start building. The uniquely designed chessboard top works with natural wood movement to keep the top stable. Then plane a light chamfer around the outside top surface of the board and sand in stages up to its final grit i go to 600 grit. Place the wood in the planer and make a trim cut.

Two built in drawers are perfect for hiding away your chess pieces. This chessboard gives you the best of both worlds a few interesting woodworking challenges and a great excuse to play a few matches when you re finished with the project. Posted on october 27 2011 june 29 2018 author gina categories games tags chess chess boards chessboards do it yourself drawings free woodworking plans games projects post navigation previous previous post. Make a chess set and playing board with a storage drawer.

On the table saw. See more ideas about chess board chess domino. For my own board i went with 2 inches. Use a tape measure to make sure the chess board is 17 1 8 in each direction.

Use a t square to make sure the chess board is perfectly square. Outside of spending time in the shop there s nothing better than a game of chess with a friend or a couple rounds of checkers with the grandkids. According to the world chess federation the dimensions of a chessboard square should be between 5 and 6 5 centimeters 2 to 2 5 inches. You can certainly buy 1x2 boards and skip.

This can be done by making a couple of passes on your table saw with the blade set up to 1 4. Plan is a reprint from issue 48 of today s woodworker magazine. Some of the key features on this chess set are. If you re a chess junkie as well as a woodworker you ll be smiling from the first cut through the last checkmate with this clever project.

Rip boards to 1 1 2 in. This is a birthday gift i made for someone this year. It is my first time doing any kind of wood turning but with little practice you can get it down pretty quickly. The unique feature of this chessboard is its go anywhere design.

And it s easy to do. Now cut the groove around the edges of the chessboard for the splines that secure the board in the lid. You ll love playing chess on this custom built board. Jan 26 2017 game board plans including chess boards checker boards and dominos.