Build a Chess Board. Pt.2 - Case Construction

My adventure in building a chess board out of wood. This part deals with bulding the carcass. This is a seven part series: check out the rest of the video!

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[smokyMcDankmn]

black walnut is toxic!

the trees pump toxins into soil and kill surrounding plants... also you should cover your breathing when working with black walnut or other exotic species!!!

[stevinmarin]

Yeah, someone else commented on that too. Maybe that explains why my tomatoes aren't doing as well this year. Doh! Well, live and learn through YouTube!

[dbr00ks]

Great project! question on the cross braces INSIDE the case. Why are they notched on the end? It looks like the lower part of the rabet is flush with the side of the case, but the top of the brace looks higher than the sides of the case? If this is so, why? and how high above the side does the notch need to be.

Thanks for responding. I love your videos... this one and the one on the jewelry box are great.

[stevinmarin]

The top grid (the squares) sit in a rabbet on the frame. So the 3/4" frame supports the 1/4" top, leaving a 1/2" recessed area on the underside. Only the edge frame of the top assembly (see 5:27) sets on the sides of the case.

So the notch IS flush with the sides and the center of the brace is higher to fit into the recessed underside of the top.

I hope this sort of makes it clearer!

[jtpryan]

At 1:44 you finish cutting the dado's. Let me just mention that having lost the end of finger doing just what you were doing, that technique is extremely dangerous. You should always use a featherboard and a long push stick. When I was doing it the board bound and suddenly kicked back, causing 2 of the fingers on my left hand to "kiss" the dado blade. A long night in the hospital and surgery the next day put most of it back together, but you don't want this.

-Jimmy 9.

[deetsryan]

3:41 it's not nice to flip people off

[deetsryan]

2:33 the wood screams from being cut in half! lol

***** (five stars!)

[BryanMagwood]

hey good stuff!...Just wondering how many feet of each wood you use.

Thanks

[SockMonkeyStudios78]

hey Steve i have really been moved by your project i mean i have watched this 7 part series like 100 times (no joke) and i really like it so i plan to make a chess board just like it next year when im in a more advanced wood shop class. This year though im makeing the pieces. :)

[RanDomGirL2632]

OMG!!!

ive been playing chess at school for yeasr and havent got my own chess board when i wached this vid i made one!!!!! im only 10!!!!!!!!!! (with the help of my dad)

i played with it for a long time!!!!!

thank you soooooo much!!!

and i painted it!! red and blue!!! its so cool

thank you!!!!

[Phyle9]

That looks like such a dangerous machine!! Watch your fingers, dude!

In here that machine would be illegal! (no safety shields)

[atokombeled]

You're welcome :)

The beauty of life is that there is always something to learn from each other! :)

Actually I have been wondering for quite a

long time,how a chess board is made,so it's a

deuce now :D Well,thanks again and good luck

with the tomatoes :)