metal chess kits? to go on wood

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Rockler, or woodcraft had the brass pieces plus a small weighted cylinder. For the bottom of the piece on clearance a. Few. Months back. You may be able to find them there
 
Also there's a british guy mike darlow that's a skew guy. That wrote a book on turning. Chess pieces... he may reference a source in his book. Or he may show you some other way
 
PSI also use to sell them.I bought a set from them a couple years back and still haven't gotten around to working on them yet.
Good luck!
 
called psi and woodcraft, they each say the other sells it, or rockler or craftsupplies sells it, call those and get runaround back to the others etc :frown: so still nada
 
Woodcraft used to , but discontinued them. I tried to find any available right around that time and the only place I could find was Craft Supplies UK, but it looks like they've dropped them now too.

I think the only thing you could do now, is talk to someone like Mike Redburn who knows the casting world and see if you can get a set made in brass or Sterling. Either isn't going to be cheap as the casting labor will be 3/4s od the price. Silver is about $30 an ounce right now and Brass about $12.
 
One way is to make them yourself. I checked some of the more obscure sources who used to have such things, but it appears you will need to call around and see if anyone has "new old stock". Otherwise -- here is another approach --

This set of drawings goes back to 1980 and one of the more famous turners of the time

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Russianwolf said:
You could get a set of chess men that you like and make Silicon molds of the uppers and lowers and cast in Metallic PR. It would have the look but be lighter.
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nah my goal is to find real metal :frown:
was planning pieces to be metal with turned trustone for bodies
then chess board has few types of wood, with a glass top
so stone, glass, metal, wood, a bit of each element :biggrin:

maybe i can get my uncle or someone to cast brass/bronze
but i doubt it would be as smoothly done as some factory :frown:
shame nobody seems to sell the kits anymore, wonder what happened
seems like thered atleast be some random guy with an unused one :biggrin:
 
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