Homemade Chessboard

07 Jul 2019 in DIY

I was not sure if this was going to work..

Some day a friend of mine comes with an idea of making his own chessboard. In the same moment I knew I had to make my own too.

The approch

I don’t have the right tools to work with wood yet. That way, cutting the wood into little squares by hand would probably lead to a poor job. So, I got the idea to use an MDF board of the right size and use table edge tape cut into squares to make chess positions.

• No wood cutting necessary

List of Materials

Material	Quantity	Price
MDF Plate	32 cm x 32 cm	R$5
Table Edge - color 1	120 cm x 35 mm	R$6
Table Edge - color 2	120 cm x 35 mm	R$6
Table Edge - edges	132 cm x 22 mm	R$6,5
Table Edge - sides	132 cm x 22 mm	R$6,5
Contact Glue	200g	R$10
TOTAL		R$40 (~ $10)

Making Off

32cm x 32 cm MDF plate

draft for bonding

plate after contact glue

pasting squares

done with the squares

now the sides

and the edges

time to remove the left overs

the final result

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Thanks to Rafael Medeiros for the idea and help.