Chessboards 10-12 (in the series of 64) have been released.

Chessboards 10-12 (in the series of 64 Great Chess Games) have been released. These are tournament friendly boards. The squares measure APPROXIMATELY 2 1/4" x 2 1/4". There are still 6 boards (#13-18) that aren't quite complete and should be finished soon. All boards now come with a complimentary set of 32 wood chess pieces (Kings Measure 1 3/4" high) and a small hardwood box for chess piece storage.

• Board #10 has 147 distinct pieces of wood. This board is made up of the following 9 species of woods: Squares: IPE & Maple, Inlay Around Squares: Paduak& Purpleheart Border: Cherry, Mahogany& Walnut Bottom Strips: Poplar and Redwood.

• Board #11 has 146 distinct pieces of wood. This board is made up of the following 9 species of woods: Squares: IPE & Maple, Inlay Around Squares: Paduak& Purpleheart Border: Cherry, Mahogany& Walnut Bottom Strips: Poplar and Redwood.
  

• Board #12 has 91 distinct pieces of wood. This board is made up of the following 7 different woods: Squares: Walnut & Maple Inlay on One Sides of Squares: Purpleheart Border: Cherry, Mahogany& Walnut Bottom Strips: Poplar & Redwood.
  

The Sander is Fixed - More chessboards coming soon

Turns out the good folks at Woodmaster sent me the wrong size threaded rods for my broken Drum Sander. The ones they sent were too short. Of course I found this out AFTER I put them in the sander. But...much to my surprise, I was able to re-use the old rods. I spent the better part of my Saturday drilling for the new support brackets and putting the old threaded rods back in, but my beloved drum sander is working again. I tested my fix by cleaning up 3 chess boards and I'm almost ready to post those 3 boards for sale on the Website. I've also completed the initial face glue ups on about 95 cribbage boards and I've started on gluing up the bottoms for those boards. I have to say some the tournament size Cocobolo boards are pretty wild looking! The grain patterns of book matched Cocobolo are just amazing. The 10 most prettiest/most exotic looking boards (of the 35+ Tournament style Cocobolo boards) will be in a series titled "Favorite Comic Strips of the Past & Present". The 10 boards are named after my 10 favorite comic strips and each board will include a signed Anthology (collection of various comic strips) from my self-published comic strip, "The Help Desk".

The Saga of my Broken Drum Sander Continues...

The saga of my broken drum sander continues . I found out that the threaded support rods aren't the only stripped out part on the sander. It turns out that threaded rods thread through brackets that supports the entire roller bed-the part of the sander where you place an item to sand. Fortunately, I found this out AFTER I called the maker of the Drum Sander (Woodmaster Tools) and was told that I would likely findthat these brackets wouldhave stripped out as well. But all is not lost. Woodmaster sells a retro-fit bracket that should (hopefully) allow me to fix this problem and finish sanding up the 9 chessboards that have been sitting in the queue awaiting completion for the last several months.