This unusual homemade will be able to make men who work with wood. The work ahead is not very difficult, but rather time-consuming. The result will delight everyone! Such a table is useful at home or will be a great gift for any celebration.
Make a chess table do it yourself for the first time you can try from any wood that can be found in the house of craftsmen. If you are confident in your abilities, have been doing woodwork for a long time, then you can use more expensive wood species. Oak, plane tree and walnut are suitable for craftswhich will be a great gift.
The chess table will look like a chessboard, under which there are 2 drawers for chess.
Drawers will surround the frames. The work begins with them. First, the frames are sawn, and then fastened in folds, which are selected at the ends of two side walls. When the four “strips” of wood are assembled in a rectangular box, two grooves for the plywood bottom are again selected on the side walls at a distance of about 4 mm from the lower edges of the walls.
When the parts are prepared, they are assembled, glued, and the resulting box is pulled together with clamps and dried.
Next, drawers are made. First cut out the compounds that are known to masters under the name "dovetail". Four grooves are made in the four walls of the drawers into which the base is inserted (bottom of the drawers). They master themselves on the same principle as any drawer for a night table.
Another element of the craft will be a side - a narrow strip of wood with a thickness of 4-5 mm. This side is first attached on the side of the drawers, and then added on the other three sides of the table.
The side, sawn "on the mustache", must be glued in a small miter box.
Drawers will be able to go along the wooden "sled", which fasten to the bottom of the product and extend flush with the edges of the two lower jumpers of the frame of the entire box.
Drawers insert and stick a guide for them. Then, stoppers must be attached to the frames.
A lid, or a chessboard, can be made in two ways.On a 43 by 43 cm board, you can burn out 5o squares by darkening those you need. Next, the table is varnished several times. This option is suitable for home.
A gift board will look great on a present. All the grooves in the squares are selected in one direction exactly along the ruler. Groove depth - 2 mm.
The inserts are carefully glued using a roller that removes excess glue. The lid is left to dry for several hours. The assembled cover is ground and polished, but before that, two small strips must be attached to the screws and glue on the side of the bottom of the cover so that it does not "lead". Screws should protrude from the inside of the side walls. Then the lid is dried further.
The lid is attached to the box, the table is assembled and decorated with a fringing around the edges.
The craft is covered in three layers of a varnish that is suitable for one or another type of wood. After the table is polished with a grinder. For special elegance, you can even attach brass legs to the edges of the table. Next, the table is carefully covered with wax and polished until its luster becomes dull.
This description can easily be understood by people whose profession or hobbies are associated with a tree. Those who are more difficult to imagine the design, can make a chess table, looking at any drawer, for example, a night table. A chess table is made in the same way as the upper part of a table in a bedroom. The difference lies only in the attached legs and carved sides of the craft, and the lid, as already mentioned, is easier not to type out of habit, but simply to burn out and varnish.