Making A Chess Board - End-Grain Style
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- I made a chess board for a friend recently and decided to make a second one with the leftovers. Here is how I built a regulation sized end-grain chess board out of black walnut and ash.
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This is beautiful...endgrain has depth and your techniques are flawless...like using a glue that allows the wood to expend and contract. I wish I had known that before.
What happens if you dont? (Use wood expanding glue)
Great job. Like how you used the rabbeting bit to recess the board into the frame.
Stunning man. Absolutely stunning.
Started looking at chess stuff after watching Netflix's The Queen's Gambit. Top Job brother!
Absolutely marvelous! I bet your friend's dad loved it. Thanks for the inspiration.
Lol marble ous
FYI, set up the chess board with a white square in the right corner. You set it up sideways, and yes, it makes a big difference.
Good info. Someone already pointed that out to me. I don't play chess myself, so I never had a reason to know that before.
Not like you can't rotate the board 90 degrees or anything...
It is just a good tip in case he, or anyone watching, ever does another one with the alphanumeric grid references carved in.
"Light at bottom right". That's how I remember. I think I'll attempt this project myself, only with much worse results.
Humm, this is supposed to be a chessboard but it's not. Where are the coordinates, the letters and the alphabets? Not hating but it's an incomplete project. Nice job from a no chess player BTW.
Love the finish
I like the final outcome
Very nice job !!! I love its simplicity and overall gorgeous finish. Well done my friend . 👍
Great work, currently working on a board for my granddaughter, great tips 👍
love that u can see the grain, u don't see that alot... since u have experience, would it be a good idea if I wanted to use a long metal wire, heat it up and use it to burn in and separate all the individual squares?
So are you saying you would just have one big board and use the wire burning method to make the grid pattern? I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work.
Bonito. Lástima que hayas colocado mal las piezas en el tablero. Juegas tú ajedrez??!
Love it man. Like all of your projects, it’s awesome.
Thanks Wesley!
Beautiful well done
I think it looks great!
This is beautiful. Thank you for posting this video, I enjoyed watching your work and more importantly your comments.
Very nice.
I would put polyurethane on it. And make it little more thick.
Endgrain has a tendency to twist and bow.
Anyway very nice video.
Looks great!
That is a very nice chessboard. I hope that you love doing woodwork.
Great work! When I eventually get set up, that's my first project; a Chess board. I like your design!
Thanks!
Very cool!! I'm making an end grain chess set right now
Awesome! I'd love to see how it turns out.
Gunflint Designs unfortunately I won't have a video on it but once it's done I'll have photos on my Instagram account @jtwoodworks
Coordinates makes it look a lot more elegant
in my opinion.
looks great, really nice finish.
Thank you!
Great job!
As a player, there needs to be more contrast between the frosted and clear pieces. It's beautiful, regardless.
beautiful
Very simple and beautiful, thanks
Love the board but disagree with the glass pieces. I think you'd be best to either go with some hardwood pieces or stone on a board that nice.
Love it! That looks fantastic!
Great work. Just a suggestion... the white case must be at the right (6:24). Thanks for the video.Regards from Brazil.
Thanks for the heads up Marcelo. You can tell I am just a builder and not much of a chess player!
Great chess table. Do you have the dimensions of the table and the surrounding trim
Very well done work sir 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great job on the board. Wish I had the skill and tools to do that. I have an old board that I made in high school that needs a new edge around it. Just don't have tools to get it done.
Thanks Tony! Have you looked to see if your area has a Maker Space somewhere? You could probably build a new edge easily and have every tool you can imagine at your fingertips.
Gunflint Designs thanks for the info. Nothing like that around here .
I would say hold the high gloss lacker, I hate playing on shinny boards, very distracting - actually ignore me, board looks truly stunning...great job!!
Thanks Kaine! High-gloss might have been too much, but I wanted a thick coat of something to keep it protected. Satin might have been a better choice.
It looks stunning with the glass pieces on it though! You might be on to something on ease of use though. There is a balance (hence staunton style in general)
Nice job. I would suggest that your frame should have been end grain as well; the two opposing forces (end grain top, face grain frame) are likely to cause issues over time.
That's a good point. To account for that, I have a good 1/8 inch of space all the way around between the two pieces, and then I used a really elastic adhesive to join them together. So any wood movement has a place to go and shouldn't brake the glue.
????? break the glue
First time in your chanel. I loved it! I've learned about making this board. Congratulations and thank you for sharing your knowledge!
You're welcome, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Beautiful chess board! I also enjoyed watching your process. Your videos are very well made. FWIW: the chess pieces at the end clip are set up on the wrong edge of the board. The dark square of home row (a1 or h8 in chess notation) should be on the left side of the board with a rook. I'm gonna go check out some more of your videos. thanks!
Haha, thanks for the heads up. My wife and I actually looked up how to set them up because it's been a long time since I played and I didn't want to look dumb. I didn't realize there was actually a front and back to a chess board.
Gunflint Designs lol...I here ya! it's a little pet peeve of mine in TV and movies to see if they set up the board properly. most set the pieces in the correct sequence on the board, but have the board turned 1/4. this isn't a chess video, it's a wood working video, and u rocked it!
I can imagine two people who think they are Gods and are at a stale mate. They are trying to make pieces disappear but little by little the peices all become kings and queens but different. Then you start hearing music. Then you start seeing color. Its getting louder and more vivid. Then the chess board starts making music. The party has just begun. We are gonna make it fun for everyone. I have a vision where we can live in a way that leads to life not death.
Love the wood,is that walnut?where did you buy that awesome wood..?been watching your videos,your spot on...
Thanks Damon! That is black walnut and ash. My family actually has a small tree farm so all of my lumber comes from trees that my Grandfathers planted. th-cam.com/video/smBRsF9NTAI/w-d-xo.html
Man, I've had the opposite experience with lacquer as far as Not being forgiving. Perhaps I should try brushing it. I always spray it, and I find any imperfections or uneven spraying shows up. Board looks great btw.
Very nice!
this is a 'forgiving' video
Great job man!!
beautifullly made
Thank you Anne!
Looks really nice. I love how the board is raised a bit from the base. Question... Does the wood glue really bind the pieces together well after 3 coats of lacquer?
As long as the wood glue gets to fully dry before coating it in lacquer then everything holds together well.
Thanks for the reply. I meant your last glue up when gluing the board to the base in the 4 corners with expandable glue. It looked like that was gluing all sections that already had multiple coats of lacquer.
Oh I see what you're saying... I don't honestly know since I've only made two of these and they were pretty recently. So only time will tell. But I can tell you that I don't have any concern about it. The lacquer should be well bonded to the boards and the flexible glue just needs to keep them from separating. These things should never really see any abuse, so I don't think they will just fall apart.
Nice man
Great peace
Are there plans for this anywhere?
Love it, nice design!
Very cool. Nice job
Adding File & Rank would make that Board more valuable.
Definately.
Awesome work!
Muito lindo mesmo seu trabalho. Parabéns
Cool! Thank you!
This looks great! What kind of tung oil did you use? I'm a beginner at finishing wood, and thinking about trying this for my next project and I'd like it to look similar to this. Also, did you start with turning blanks? It's hard to tell in the video how big your squares are, but I'm guessing 2" or 1 3/4" ? Not having any luck finding local suppliers who carry walnut and ash blanks, so maybe you have a recommendation for an online supplier?
I believe I used Homer Formby's tung oil on that one. Each square is 2x2, for an overall playing surface of 16x16. I actually have a small hobby tree farm in my family, so I get all of my lumber straight from the tree. th-cam.com/video/smBRsF9NTAI/w-d-xo.html
I'm afraid I'm not a great source for information on where to get lumber.
Nice!
Just curious. Was there a reason that you routed the recess into the frame after assembling? Why did you not route before assembly? I am newish to finer woodworking and looking for more tips and tricks.
Nice chess board and thanks for the video.
Can you please tell me how did you make the 'soft' rounding of the edges of the top surface of the chessboard? And also, what kind of varnish did you use for the surface?
Thanks for sharing!
Nice work! Where can I get custom brands made? It's a really cool idea using the drill press, thanks for that.
Thanks Joe, glad I could help! I got my brand from www.brandingirons.com
For some reason an End-Grain board costs about 400-800 dollars.
How much did it cost to you make this one?
That's a tricky question because I mill my own lumber. It's not so much about the materials in it, but the time and tools needed to build one.
B e a u t i f u l
I will tell you what I think, it’s very nice 👍
I like it!!! good job.
Hi What thickness did you end up with? the thickness doesn't have to match the square width does it?
I don't remember for sure, so I'll take some guesses. The frame is probably 5/8 thick, and the board is probably 1" or more. Since the board sits into the frame half-way, we are probably talking about 1 to 1-1/4 overall thickness.
Seen bunch of these videos before I start to built a chess board for myself. Is it recommended to use the auto clear coat over the wood chess board?
I'm not sure what auto clear coat is? I used lacquer, which is easy to work with and dries pretty hard, so it should be durable enough to stand up to years of chess pieces sliding across it.
thats awesome
the only problem is the set up at the end, black square on the left bottom
Thanks Pedro. I'm a builder, not a chess player so I had no idea that there was a front and back to a chess board. I have had lots of people point this out to me since I posed this video... some of them weren't as nice about it as you.
Pedro Marques Moreira what do you mean?
Anthony Patricio - the left rook (black or white rook) its always on a black square
Pedro Marques Moreira but if he's to rotate it, it will be placed correctly, right?
Anthony Patricio - 90° yes
do you sell the chess board? thanks
How did you measure the frame so that the rabbeted pieces fit together?
sick. great video.
After a couple years, how did the board hold up with wood movement? Thanks for making this, it was beautiful.
Also wondering about this!
will an end-grain board not collapse if the wood expands or or shrinks? or does it depend on the dryness of the wood as well as the wood species? I am going to build a board myself and am deciding if just to follow the grain.
You definitely want the wood to be dry. Technically, this style should be stronger because everything is glued edge grain to edge grain. If you go the other direction, you end up with lots of end grain to end grain joints, which isn't very strong.
amazing work, using your design as reference to make one for my sister (newbie here). What is that glue you used? Can’t seem to find info on it. Is it some sort of silicone?
wont this warp a lot depending on the season?
I'm not worried about it, but because I'm curious I've just had it sitting out and check it every week or so. It's been 6 months and is still completely flat and no cracks.
Its very nice and an interesting process. I'm not crazy about the void on the bottom of the board or the stamp on the squares. Chess players, like myself, will be very particular about their chess sets and will want them to the board to resemble a minimalistic style. Meaning perfectly smooth on top and bottom with no distractions on the board. The board I have for example can be flipped and used on both sides. The stamp and the awkward negative space in the bottom of the board here would make it well... awkward. Otherwise, solid piece of work. I would not turn away the board if someone gave it to me. The glass piece set also looks very interesting and its why I clicked on the video.
Thanks for the feedback. In this case, it is not meant to be flipped over. You should never see the void or my brand unless you are looking for it.
Where did you have your brand made? I'd like to have one done soon but I like the quality of yours.
Dark square bottom left but it has already been pointed out lol
It's a really nice job and some good workmanship. A couple of areas to improve:
1) I prefer a 45 degree mitre angle for joining the frame, I think that would have looked a bit nicer with better symmetry.
2) I prefer the frame to be the same level as the board, ie don't raise the board up above the frame, so the frame is more a border. Personal preference though.
3) Your pieces are a little large for the board so it looks a touch a cramped. I like the glass vs timber contrast though.
4) As others have said, you always setup a chess board with "white (square) on the right" so your Queen sits on her own colour and king-side castling is short not long. Yes it makes a difference.
Thanks for sharing.
U have arranged pieces on the wrong side. Left corner cube's colour should be dark.
I think it looks pretty fucking cool. Everyone keeps pointing out the setup flaws but this is a pretty nice board nonetheless.
Hi, where did you get your branding iron
brandingirons.com
The way to use biscuits is to put glue in the slit so they soak and expand to lock the pieces together. not like you did.
Really nice job of that, what kind of lacquer are you using, is it spirit based.
Thanks Paul! I was using Watco Clear Lacquer - I think I picked it up at my local ACE Hardware. I have had really good luck with it. It is Oil based
www.rustoleum.com/en/product-catalog/consumer-brands/watco/lacquer-clear-wood-finish
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Beautiful work but the layout is incorrect. White square should be on the lower right when you are sitting in front of the board. Queens goes on her color.
I don't understand why people use multiple pieces of wood. Wouldn't it be easier to just use one and stain the pattern on?
No
Can i buy it
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lol his face
Glass chess pieces beeeeh.
A1 should always be square .... but real nice build man
square ? haha ... as well as being square, it should also be black .. hahaha
Me wondering if he'd make me one while I watch with no any owned power tools
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I am curious, not sure if you mentioned it but how thick was the wood pieces and how wide were the strips? Trying to figure how how large each square should be so i can order some wood, walnut is so expensive now I have to order it online, kinda frustrating haha. Beautiful work my man!
Beautiful. Just stop saying forgiving.
make and send me one
My Birthday is coming up in April,,,,LOL
Can i have one of your art bro? 😅
yeah well done, just remember that the right hand corner square should always be white. ...thats the rule.
Can u make it for me bro
If only the pieces were set up correctly.
I love the board, but does it drive anyone else crazy when people don't set the pieces up right?
I'm not a chess player, I'm just a builder. I had no idea there was a right and wrong way, but I've had several people point it out to me thanks to this video. I won't make that mistake again.
@@GunflintDesigns don't worry yourself both pieces could be played as white in a way, as they are glass I see no black pieces. Some chess fans just love being really anal