An Experiment that Worked Out

When I was 14 I told my dad I wanted to make a chess board. He said that was one of the hardest things to make.  With the tools he had, he was correct. It would have been almost impossible to come up with a chess board that I would have been happy with.

Now that I have quite a collection of tools, including a table saw and a planer, I decided to give it a shot by using some scrap wood that I had in the garage. I started working on it after I finished the trains, and it turned out a whole lot better than I was expecting so I cut out some checker pieces and gave it to my dad for Christmas.

Rachel was absolutely delighted with the checkers set and had me play several games with her before we wrapped it up for Dad.

I was pretty happy with the way this turned out.

I especially like the border on this that I used my router table to make the corner fancy.