Halloween Checkers

[lairdknox]

It must be chess board day.

I just posted a way to get a better glue up. Forget about aligning all those pesky corners.

Making a hardwood chess board

There’s an easy way to glue up chess boards without dealing with all those little squares. Say you want 1" squares. Start by cutting four 1 x 8.25" strips out of each color. Glue them together, alternating colors. Use a couple of bar clamps to hold them tight. Once dry cut 1 x 8" strips perpendicular to the original cut. Flip every other strip, glue up and clamp. I made a board this way in high school wood shop out of maple and mahogany. I started to turn the pieces on the lathe but the semest…

Love the chess pieces.