[blindwoodworker] Re: Plexiglass Chessboard
- From: "John Sherrer" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindwoodworker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:17:46 -0400
Souhnds like you have an awsome chess board.
If you want to play chess by email with blind folks all over the world, let
me know, I will hook you up.
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Rossi" <dr25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindwoodworker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 8:13 AM
Subject: [blindwoodworker] Re: Plexiglass Chessboard
John,
I do not believe that John was attempting to make a Plexi glass board, but
essentially use the plexi glass board as a template to arrange the wooden
squares.
Your method of making the board is the one I've read about several times
in various places. The eighth inch difference in square height is pretty
helpful for an adaptive chess board.
I'll just take this opportunity to brag about a chess board I have. It
was my design, but I did not build it. The board is made of a sheet of
steel with eighth inch deep pockets every other square. The steel is set
into a frame of walnut. The guys who made it for me went the extra mile
and set my name, cut out of brass, into the walnut frame.
I had designed the board to be steel since a good friend of mine, who is
also blind, had a pottery studio for years. She was shutting down her
studio, and I asked her to throw me a chess set before she wrapped it up.
She made me a lovely classic set of pieces and I glued refrigerator
magnets to the bottoms of the pieces so that they stick to the steel board
and hold them in place quite nicely.
The guys who actually made the board for me, also threw in a set of
classic chess pieces that had been milled on a CNC lathe. One set of men
is steel and one is brass. They are heavy enough to withstand hands
bumping around them, but they glued strong magnets to the bottoms of the
men anyway. They are quite steady and resistant to movement. *GRIN*
Lastly, just because I think it is fun to talk about, the way they inset
my name was to use a water jet cutter to cut my name out of brass, then
use the water jet to cut the negative of my name through the wood, then
pressed the brass into the wood.
Lastly, they used bluing for steel to darken every other square in the
board. It is a really interesting looking set.
Later.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail: dr25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: (412) 268-9081
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