Customer Reviews

Wooden Chess Sets You Can Make

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I was new to using a scroll saw; I did have experience with other tools as I like to tinker with various building projects. However, this illustrated book walked me and my 10 year old son threw building an entire chess set and board. It is the center piece of our family room and we use it almost daily. The explanations and pictures were excellent. I highly recommend this book to anyone that is looking to making their own chess set.

I do suggest that one has a miter saw and a table saw as well as the scroll saw. I also used a router to finish of the edges of the chess board.

I felt this book was what I expected. Very good explanations and great photos. Was very pleased with my purchase. I was a little dissapointed by the error in the photo on the front. Chess players would not approve.
White square on the right please. I plan to make two of the sets from the book.

Patterns are very crisp. Book has great helpful hints to assist you prior to the time you start sawing.

Book was very useful and patterns are decent. Would have been nice if they would have put more copies on each page to reduce the number of coppies I had to make. I ended up coping on the front and back with the back rotated 180 degrees to save on paper. Not an easy project but will be beautiful when complete.

If you want to make a wooden chess set and don't want to turn it, get this book. There are many more designs here than I could have imagined; some are traditional, and some are hilarious. Some of the animal-themed pieces would work very nicely as standalone pieces.

Compound cutting isn't the easiest thing to do on a scroll saw, but it's a blast; you cut here, you cut there, and then you open up the package to see what comes out. I highly recommend this book!

Great book with a good variety of chess sets. I liked the samples of the chess piece in different woods.

I'm about half way through my first set. The pieces look great and the instructions are clear. I knocked this down by one star because there is only one or two chess piece patterns per page with a blue background, so printing is tedious and expensive on the inkjet. Placing as many patterns on a single page with a white background would have been preferred, with 4 pawns to a page for the volume parts.

Too limited in the amount of times you may reproduce the patterns. No sense in buying a book of patterns and then cannot use them! Very disappointed!