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

Kape, Jim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 156523457X ISBN 13: 9781565234574

Casa editrice: Fox Chapel Pub Co Inc, 2010

Riassunto

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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Recensione

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. --Wooden Chess Sets

L'autore

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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Fox Chapel Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 156523457X
• ISBN 13: 9781565234574
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 135