Making Wooden Chess Sets: 15 One-of-a-Kind Projects for the Scroll Saw

Author:   Jim Kape
Publisher:   Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN:  

9781565234574


Pages:   136
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Making Wooden Chess Sets: 15 One-of-a-Kind Projects for the Scroll Saw


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Unique, heirloom quality chess set designs that will inspire collectors, players, scrollers and woodworkers to craft and display these beautiful works of art.

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Author:   Jim Kape
Publisher:   Fox Chapel Publishing
Imprint:   Fox Chapel Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9781565234574


ISBN 10:   156523457
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction *Getting Started Section 2: Gallery of Design *Classic Chess Set *Neo Classic Chess Set *Neo Classic II Chess Set *King Henry VIII Chess Set *Trojan Chess Set *Peter the Great Chess Set *Canterbury Chess Set *Paris Chess Set *Roman Glory Chess Set *San Francisco Chess Set *Venice Chess Set Section 3: Projects *Building the Classic Chess Set *Building a Chessboard *Simple Storage Box *Box Joint Storage Box *Travel Chess Set *Vertical Chess Set Appendix - Designs

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Checkmate! Here is a book fit for kings, queens and knights and a book not to be pawned. I, with my sick humor could not work a rook into my diatribe. In any event, this is a fantastic and inspiring book for all woodworkers. In a word, unique! This is perhaps the best way of describing the contents of this book. Author Kape has a great imagination and it is well projected in this fabulous book. There are, as the cover suggests, 15 one-of-a-kind projects for the scroll saw. There is a classic and two neo-classic sets that are close to traditional but certainly unique as cut with the scrollsaw. There is also a set reminiscent of the Knights of the Round Table, a classic Greek set, a Czarist set and an Olde English set. Add these to the architectural collection like Paris, Canterbury, Venice, Rome and San Francisco and you have a fully rounded out chess set collection that is to die for. Now, if you were counting you will realize that the list is short by four. These are made up by the author's plans for a chess board, a travelling chess board, a storage box and a vertical wall mounted chess set. Kape provides the sawyer with full plans and scale drawings for all of the above as well as a full list of materials. As an avid chess player and/or a scroll sawyer you will really appreciate this book.


<p>Checkmate! Here is a book fit for kings, queens and knights and a book not to be pawned. I, with my sick humor could not work a rook into my diatribe. In any event, this is a fantastic and inspiring book for all woodworkers...in a word, unique! This is perhaps the best way of describing the contents of this book. Author Kape has a great imagination and it is well projected in this fabulous book. - Graham McCulloch, www.Shortcuts.ns.ca


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Jim Kape has been working with wood since childhood. One of his chess sets took a First Place Blue Ribbon at the 2009 Excellence in Woodworking show sponsored by the Arizona Association of Fine Woodworkers. Another of his set designs won a county and state fair award in Utah.

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