Thread: Competition Chess table design & Build

The drawer is now what you might describe as air tight




A closer view

The wood that will become the squares of the top. All pieces have been thicknessed to 1/2" but will eventually end up nearer 3/8" or less.




All the sycamore and walnut has been cut to width, I decided to glue them up in two sections to stop any bowing.




The two halves get glued together.

Making the checqured squares

Cutting the strips off.






Dry fitted to check everything is good.




As before I glued up in two halves to stop any bowing.




Both halves glued together, next a very light sanding on the bottom and it can be glued to the mdf panel for extra strength.

Starting the stringing

As the stringing is only 3mm square I needed to give it a base, here I'm adding the first piece of the base.




Base done, you can see in this pic I've already glued ebony to some sycamore and this in turn now needs to be glued to the base.




Shooting a mitre on the stringing.




First piece glued in.




All four pieces of stringing fitted.




During all this glue up and being an impatient type I thought I might as well give the table a coat of cellulose sanding sealer.
So here's a glimps of what it might look like when finished properly, next job is to wire wool it off

Beautiful work my Lord Nibbo!

This is an excellent WIP Nibbo, keep them pics coming i'm lovin it!

Two pieces of molding fitted to the base for the top.

Looks brilliant LN, just awesome!!!!

Great work!

The top edge is 1/2" thick and I need to add a molding to match what is fitted the lower edge of the drawer unit.
But I want to leave a clear distinct line of the upper edge.



So I thicknessed some off cuts to 3/8" and used part of an ogee cutter to get as near a radius to match a 3/16" radius as I could.



After ripping the edges off and a little light hand sanding, job done.



I needed to knock up a heath robinson style jig to hold the moldings so I could shoot the mitres



First piece gets glued into place, you can clearly see the distinct upper edge I wanted to leave.



The checquers have been glued in and the molding around the edge is fitted and all have received a coat of cellulose and been rubbed back with fine wirewool. next step is to either fit it to the base or start putting the danish oil finish on.

Fitting the top

With a long phillips screwdriver going right through the drawer cabinet I'm marking the top where to drill pilot holes.



Applying the finish

Top attached and first coat of danish oil applied.

Beautiful work. Looks absolutely amazing, you should be very proud.

Who gets to play the first game?

Cheers,
Af.

That is some really nice craftmanship Nibbo & a very nice design too.

Lovely piece LN. You make it look so easy...

ajw