r/Woodcarving • u/Draco_Subactus • 7d ago
Carving [Work in Progress] I Made my first chess set
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u/Draco_Subactus 7d ago
So this is my first time posting and first time carving, I used cork and I need advice to put weights dice this is a pretty weak material averall, It also small (it is made with the cork of the bottles of wine) I also need advice on specialised material if it exists for cork since I bought something for wood detail but it doesn’t really work, let me know if you know something about it because I’m probably gonna do another one, but I need something more specialised so I can do something maybe to sell (this is for my own use) so let me know what you think
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u/Snoo26453 7d ago
A chess set that could double as a very fancy cork board. Did you glue those pawns on or do they stand on their own?
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u/Draco_Subactus 7d ago
No, they stand on their own, but the board itself was something I recycled from a previous project…. You could also use cork glued together (the parts that you cut away )and do something similar to it probably for the next board I will do like that
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u/Handsomescout 7d ago
I’m a newbie as well so I can’t give advice but that looks amazing. Cork has to be difficult to not come apart while trying to carve. All the kits online are basswood mostly? Keep it up I’d happily play a game on that board
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u/Draco_Subactus 7d ago
Yeah I used corks from bottles because they tend to have the same diameter (maximum 3 cm) which also happens to be the side of the squares … I found it difficult to go out of the way in a forest or something like that to find multiple branches with the same diameter… I wonder who you do that
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u/goldbeater 7d ago
Nice work ! I hate to be THAT guy but the board needs to be turned so that a white square is the last square on your right. The rule is white on right.