Ideas for a wire chess set.

[QuietiManes]

I was thinking about doing a wire chess set. Since someone suggested it in another forum...and I love chess.


Came up with this. These are rough (obviously), the rook should have crenelations and I did the king and queen designs in the same piece. It's like 5 AM and my fingers hurt from working on a wire Nine Tailed Fox (from Naruto) for my son. So, I took a short cut. The picture should make it clear how I'm planning to make things look. The knight is abstract, it always bothers me when the horse is the only thing with any detail.


The pawn is about 1/2" x 1" tall, the queen would be just under 2" tall, the king is about 2 1/4" tall, both by 1" wide, the other 3 are about 1 1/2" x 3/4".


It is done in 18g galvanized steel.


Anybody still reading? Great! I'd love to get some feedback, good, bad, anything to either confirm it is just the best thing ever OR how it could be improved towards that goal. So don't hold back.


Click the thumb for a better view, one of these days I'll remember to re-size the picture (it was way too large to fit on the screen at full size).


Cheers.

 

[10 ball]

I was chess crazy a few years back. I found when playing on a none standard board (eg decorative sets etc) found if difficult to spot moves / set plays and my game suffered big time!

 

[QuietiManes]

Yeah, I think it's important that the pieces are easily recognizable too. I thought these were "standard" enough that they wouldn't cause any issue.

 

[freakinacage]

Yeah they look nice. Why the king, queen mix?

 

[QuietiManes]

Thanks. The pieces are similar enough that I didn't see a huge reason to make both of them while I was just playing around with the idea, had no plans for these to be the finished pieces, I certainly wouldn't be doing all 32 pieces in such a sloppy fashion so it's not like I could play with them even if I did the king and queen separately. Plus my finger tips were getting raw and it was way past bed-time.