chess pieces

[naijin]

Hi there has anyone made any chess pieces on the rotary axis? if so how and where can I obtain some vector files?
Cheers
Nick

[SteveNelson46]

Thingiverse has some good 3D .stl chess files. Most of them are for 3D printing but a few can be adapted for wood carving.

https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=ch ... t=relevant

[martin54]

Could be wrong (often am ) But try a search on the forum, I am sure there was a post about it some time ago although it may have contained an external link
Plenty on 3D sites, some free & some paid for, still not got my rotary axis set up as I have to do some major surgery to my CNC in order to fit it.

[sharkcutup]

Check out the pieces on Next Wave Automations website - https://www.nextwavecnc.com/cncprojectplans

They may not be rotary axis files but they are 3D Chess Pieces!

Sharkcutup

[Mark Jones]

I looked at the pieces on thingy verse and found a set made by a program call scad. The Author had split the 3d pieces in half so I was able to import the King, Queen, Bishop, Knight and Pawns with just a few key strokes. I set my z to 1" and imported these files through the import feature. I am just learning about 3d models and this was very easy compared to other models I have imported these past 2 weeks.

Went out to the shed and pulled out some of my resawn maple and walnut boards off of a ready to use stack. I resawed this lumber from logs in 2020. It's been stickered in my uninsulated shed for 3 years. Just have to glue up some boards and give it a go on the 3d carving.

[Rcnewcomb]

Look into the Milo Scott continuous turning method.

Cutting and King and Queen using the standard 3D finish toolpath for rotary took an hour.
Using the Milo Scott method took 13 minutes and yielded better results.

[Mark Jones]

The link you had left I was not able to open it up. I did a search for Milo Scott continuous turning and looked at a few videos.

With no rotary axis on plans for the future I will use the split and glue them together method first.

Glued up the maple and walnut today. Will sand a surface flat and load it up in the cnc in the morning and give it a go.

[Rcnewcomb]

Apologies for the bad link. That is what I get for multi-tasking.

Here is the real link: ->Link

[Rcnewcomb]

Real-time video clip of prototype chess pieces being carved in 2"x2" construction pine using a 1/16” tapered ballnose bit.

[BKeith]

Why slit and glue? Why not just do them as two-sided pieces? Od shapes like the knights would probably do better as two-sided instead of rotary.