How Do You Make Chess Pieces From Wood?
Making you own chess set can be as fun as you wish to make it. This project is about how to make simple chess pieces from wood that are easily portable, recognizable and fully functional. This project will not take more than a few hours and only costs a few dollar (assuming that you already have the tools). This chess set can also double as a checkers set if you turn the pieces over. Cut off the end of a 1-inch dowel rod so that the bottom of the rod has no dye (often used to color code the size of the dowel). Cut the dowel into 32 pieces, each 3/4 inch thick, using your hand saw. Make sure that the dowel rod is laying in a corner in the miter box as you saw so that you have nice, flat ends. Touch up the pieces with some hand sanding. Make sure that the sanding flattens the ends. The sanding should also cover the entire piece so that it will accept the stain later. Print out the chess symbols from the computer font “Unicode” (see Additional Resources). Any chess symbols will work as lo
