WIP- chess set ideas

Just a small progress post, I’ve been thinking about the table we’re building and I sort of want to put a chessboard in the top. Yet to work out the logistics for that, I know how to make the board by cutting and gluing strips of light and dark wood, but I don’t know how I’m incorporating it into the table. I’m also designing chess pieces based on characters of mine, as seen on the right. Would love to turn them on a lathe but I don’t think that will happen anytime soon, since I’d need a lathe.

I still need to decide who or what to make the pawns, knights, and kings, but pictured are little chess versions of my characters Beffery, Ollo, and Alphie, from left to right. All transparent areas in the design represent carved indents, non horizontal ones I'd need to detail off the lathe.

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