DIY Checkerboard Set from an Upcycled Door – Scavenger Stylish

• By Joan
• February 28, 2024
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DIY Checkerboard or Chess Set from an Upcycled Door

Months in the past I shared with you this DIY Parcheesi recreation created from an outdated hole core door.

And this backgammon recreation, additionally constructed from a hole door.

From 2 doorways I used to be capable of  minimize sufficient items to create 6 outsized board video games.  The subsequent recreation board on my listing is everyone’s favourite, the checkerboard.

Verify again with the Backgammon board for all the data on what I did to fill within the edges of the hole core doorways.

My door piece is 24 inches sq..  A normal chess or checkers set has  8 squares horizontally and vertically so every of my squares are going to be 2.4″ (divide 24 /10) which is the 8 squares plus an equal border across the whole perimeter.

Mark off your squares or use a stencil in case you’re fortunate sufficient to search out one to your precise specs.

Paint the whole board a base shade within the lightest shade you select to your checkerboard then fill within the darker squares with a shade of your selection.

Beautify the border of your checkerboard with any colours or design of your selecting.

I used a black paint pen so as to add somewhat curiosity across the border.

A body is constructed from salvaged plaster lath, sanded and nailed to the aspect of the door.

End with a coat of clear or classic wax relying on how aged you need your mission to be.

Checkerboard Items

The DIY checker items are 24 slices of a department, half painted black.

DIY Chess Items

The chess items are somewhat extra concerned.  I discovered some nice directions on-line and modified them for my very own use.

I wanted my chess items to be large and chunky and somewhat rustic seeking to go together with my folks artwork door chess board.  The squares on my board are 2.4″ so I’m making my chess items out of this extraordinarily thick, 2 inch, piece of outdated wooden.

I ran my outdated piece of chunky wooden through my desk noticed a number of instances giving me  items of wooden as large because the wooden was thick, 2″.

With the identical setting on the desk noticed, I minimize the wooden posts down into 2 inch cubes till I had 16 cubes.  These are the pawns.

You probably have a smaller chess board use a thinner piece of wooden, simply be sure you’re making even cubes out of your wooden.

Lower 4 extra items, 2 pawns excessive, or 4 inches.  These are your rooks.

The king and queen are 6 pawns excessive.  Draw a arrow within the heart of your items.

I used a desk high scroll noticed to make my king/queen minimize.

The knights are 3 pawns excessive.  Mark as proven and as soon as once more use a desk high scroll noticed, jigsaw or band noticed to make your minimize.  Lower 4 knights in whole.

The bishops are 2 pawns excessive (4 inches).  I used a miter noticed set at 45º to trim off the surplus.  Lower 4 of those.

All your items ought to now be minimize.

Sand your items properly.

I used this Varathanestain and poly in Kona to stain the darker chess items.

And this Waverly white wax to present a end to the lighter chess items.  You might additionally use paint, watered down paint or simply go away a pure end.  Use what you have got.

To be able to showcase my model new chess items I needed to paint yet another checkerboard / chess board, I had given the opposite one away final 12 months. Oops, however this fashion you get to see another choice for a border design.

As soon as once more, this recreation board is all hand painted.  The yellow dot is the tip of an eraser dipped in paint.

All arrange and able to play a recreation of chess…if solely I performed chess 😕

When not in use, the sport boards make nice folks artwork  for  your partitions.

As all the time, keep impressed.