Floating Chess from Wood and Epoxy Resin with LED
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In this video we show how to make a Chess from Wood and Epoxy Resin with a floating effect and light. This chess is completely handcrafted with a minimum set of tools in the color mahogany. Wood burning. DIY.
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Setting up the board, queen always goes on her color.
Or another way to say it: Queens on d1 and d8.
@@logosgotbannedagain2225 You're a queen! Sorry couldn't resist.
@@logosgotbannedagain2225 Yes, but "queen goes on her own color" is much easier to remember than "queens go on D1 and D8," especially for beginners.
I think the board look's amazin! And everybody here is a queen
I came here to see how many would point this out. 😆
The Board is completely awesome. I think that the Queen and King are in the wrong spot - that is the only negative. Excellent craftmanship.
Yes on the black side they are.
The squares are wrong too. The square on the bottom right, where white's king rook is, is supposed to be a light square
@@JensWoodworkingThings on both sides they are. Remember Kings face each other. They are also gentlemen and give the queen her colored square. In other words black queen on black square, white queen on white square.
It's 2023 okay, who says they aren't in the right spot? 😤
@@lasagnapapa Not sure I understand your drift. It does not take away from the beauty of the piece. The comment was intended to educate.
Love the idea of floating chess with LED lights! 😍 Planning to make one for game nights with friends! 💡🎲
If I played chess more, I'd totally want one. One minor improvement though, consider putting a strip of diffusing paper over the LEDs to make it look like a glow instead of intense spots of light underneath the board.
Was thinking the exact same thing, although you can get a diffuser spray in a spraycan I've used to frost resin before quite successfully.
And acquire quality chess pieces
@@nightshade99 Or make a mold and pour epoxy to make them fancy
Too often do people forget to diffuse their lighting
No need to use diffusing paper. A light sanding on the underside with a coarser grit sandpaper to knock off the high-gloss shine and opacity would do the job just fine.
Keep a piece of tool box drawer liner folded up by your bench, put it down when you are doing your sanding, it’ll hold the piece while giving you stability to sand and also just shakes off when done. Is simple, but incredibly helpful.
Замечательные шахматы !👏👏👏
the sounds of work being done are far better than one maddening audio loop for 20 minutes. cool project but it felt like customer service had me on hold the entire time.
The music was absolutely terrible. Just background sounds would have been a lot better.
Many words are going thru my head right now on how to describe this work of art. All I can say is this is one beautiful chess set.
Truly amazing, what a beautiful board indeed. Thank you for inspiring us all with this
we all agree- great job but diffuse those lights - but again GREAT JOB!
It is a cool idea. A few ideas for variants. Have a shined metal plate on the bottom instead of the clear plexi, instead move the plexi up above the LEDs so that the pieces can't damage them. Alt construction ideas. Make bars of the epoxy the same size as the square stock. You could glue up sets of 2x2 and then the production speed could be faster and more cost effective.
Amazing project. Kind of want to do it for my father. 1. Definitely consider using diffusion paper or spray to cut the led spots. 2. Maybe make or have a storage battery so it can work on the go that has an adapter inside for both plug and play or on the go. 3. Consider using glass/epoxy or Glass/epoxy/wood pieces so the color travels to the pieces. Specifically the black pieces.
Hey guy, say less.
or he could use the 144/m LEDs and lower the intensity
Or just have a normal chess? Why make it colourful and glowing? Especially if it is for your dad. I would understand if it is a child that wants glowing chess board or something like that. But adult man.. Yeah..
@@velvet3784 that's sad that you get distracted so easily over colorful lights
The interesting thing is that in the light the white fields are wooden and the black fields are made of glass, but are not backlit - that’s why they are black. And in the dark they change places and from wood they become black and transparent ones become white, or multi-colored :)))
My son loves checkers and has recently learning chess and is now playing it more than checkers. After watching this I’m going to definitely make him one. Great job and thanks for the inspiration 👌
Thank you so much 😊
He'll go back to checkers when he realises how tasty the red ones are
@@WoodSeason can you tell me all the dimensions ???
Beautiful!! Wish I had that kind of talent! You're a true craftsman and I enjoyed watching you work!!!
Excellent result. When setting up, the lighter square should be bottom right and the queens go on their own colour.
the lighter square is on the right side and his queens are on their colors as far as i can see....
my mistake he did have the queens on the wrong square but the last two shots he fixed it
@@jorgeclaymeister9060 Still wrong on the last two shots
This piece is soooo sweet, especially in its simplicity. I hope to build one someday. Thanks!!
Thank you so much 😊
I made it . Hint . Paint the inside cavity bright white and use more lights . The squares light up so much better .
👏👏👏 Ficou maravilhoso! Parabéns!
I have watched your video twice in one sitting. I am exhausted. I think I will go take a nap. You do great work. Thank you!
Absolutely fantastic project! Always looking for new resin and wookworking ideas. The music was fine.
That looks amazing! I love the lights underneath. (a tip for the videos: don't use annoying music and certainly don't use it for almost 22 minutes, haha, it drove me crazy!)
just muted it 1min 22sec in lol
😠 and different tunes - not one repeatedly looped for the whole video or no music, the sound of you working, possibly with a pleasant background sound.
I'd sooner listen to the tools. The only music I thought was great in any building video was for _"Guy Makes Big Ball Out Of Plywood"._
Came here to say the same, glad someone beat me to it. Honestly the sound of a craftsman doing his work is very soothing, even ASMR like. That'd make the video infinitely more watchable. As it is, I had to skip ahead to the finished product because the music was so annoying.
Much, MUCH rather listen to the tools and maybe hear the craftsman speak about what he is doing.
Wow! This is amazingly beautiful!
Burnt wood game is on-point, I bet you're great at marshmellows over the fire (or butane torch), too! Great project, thanks for sharing.
For all you folks complaining about how the board is set up. He's a craftsman, and an amazing one. Nowhere does he claim to be a chess master, as all of you obviously must be.
I would definitely try some type of diffuser for the lights like others have said. One other thing I would change is to have the lights cover the entire bottom instead of just the edge. It looks great in the dark, but with the lights on (how I assume you’ll usually play), the middle is pretty dark.
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Also has a lot of wood material in the bottom to work with. I would carve our some space there for lighting and a rechargeable battery.
The interesting thing is that in the light the white fields are wooden and the black fields are made of glass, but are not backlit - that’s why they are black. And in the dark they change places and from wood they become black and transparent ones become white, or multi-colored :)))
Amazing and Beautiful Love the details of the wood
From the look < only in my eye , to have the hard lines in the black drew out the smoke far nicer than braking them up, stirring up the black the second time took away from the 3-d look. However this was totally fun to watch thank you for sharing your project. Keep them coming .
Parabéns, a tua mesa de xadrez ficou linda!
Wow. That's amazing. A super cool chess board! Spectacular. 😍
Thank you so much 😊😊😊
Your chessboard is awesome! You are a great chessboard maker! I have never seen anything like it! I would like the figures on the board to be transparent too. Light passed through them. Thank you very much for the pleasure of seeing such an extraordinary chessboard! And even more fun to contemplate the process of creating this masterpiece!
check the video from Craftstation, they have transparent figures
Amazing craftmanship the led's made it go even more over the top 👍
Every one has improvements but can't do anything like this just embrace true craftsmanship
The best wood working I've ever seen. You inspired me to make a chess set and it came out great. Thx for the idea and inspiration!
This is amazing! I love it, well done 👏
Thank you so much
Beautiful craftsmanship. Loved every minute
Thank you so much 😊
WOW! I love the storage. Great idea. LOVE THIS VIDEO.
Lindo trabalho!! Parabéns!! Faz para vender, tbm???
muito bom o seu trabalho...parabéns
That looked like it was so much fun to build.
Amazing chessboard. With wooden pieces would look even better.
Really beautiful and unique,,,great work,, but I think glass or resin chess pieces as the glass or resin would reflect the lighting, would love to see how that would look too!.♟
Шедеврально! Сам хочу! Буду делать только на батарейках! Под это можно использовать самую дешманскую смолу - с отвердителем ПЭПА например - она немного желтит но тут вообще не принципиально!!! Можно еще доску саму перед лакировкой белой краской пройти и стереть излишки - тогда белые клетки как венге будут.
Спасибо большое
very cool. interesting choice to have the dark squares light up rather than the white squares.
Completely over the top. Give me my classic wooden board and a nice Staunton set any day.
Trabalho lindo!!! Parabens!!!
Incrível parabéns 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Craftsmanship. Magnificent!
Thank you so much
I’m so jealous I love this chess board !! Amazing work
Very nicely done. Great work.
You are very talented and very skilled! This is a beautiful chessboard! Congratulations!
Thank you so much 😊
IF ONLY THE CHESS PIECES WERE CLEAR SHEESH 🤩
Awesome craftmanship. Excellent!
Wygląda świetnie!
Dziękuję bardzo 😊
This is a great project - right in my "level" of wood working. I'm gonna bookmark it for my chessboard project later this year - as soon as I get the pieces. Two suggestions: 1) The chess pieces rattling around on the bottom are going to eventually scratch that acrylic. Maybe line it with a small layer of felt instead? 2) Did you add any "stops" on the opposite side of the hinges? I noticed you were very careful when you closed the top, but some kid or someone not familiar with it might just let it drop. Stops (maybe also felt lined) would help support it better.
no stops = failure over time
I was also going to comment on the fact that there was no stops to support the other side of the board. If I had the skill set and was making this, I would have also carved a small grove on the side of the board so that it is easier to grip when opening.
Are you sponsored by a felt company?
I thought the same thing about the acrylic, but if you do that then you lose the LED glow underneath the board. Lining it with vellum or parchment instead of felt would probably get the best of both worlds.
I’d love to own that. I may have to look into making one at some point
Absolutely gorgeous!!
Thank you so much 😊
It would be awesome if you could mold the black pieces with the same epoxy as the black board squares. You could probably do that by creating the white pieces of wood then using them to make a mold for the black pieces.
Nice idea. You might want to shield the LED light with a partial cover and place a reflective material in the bottom of the case. This will improve light distribution amongst the resin cubes and keep you from seeing the LEDs from above. Nice first project though. Cheers.
Thanks😊
😊👍👍
I was thinking the same thing!
Personally, I like the acrylic for the bottom. It allows the LED's to produce a glow around the bottom of the board. Putting felt and/or a reflective material would cancel the LED glow which I think would be a shame. But to each his own. The pieces rattling around is a good point. But I would hate to close off the light glow.
Absolutely beautiful!
Oh man, its so cool 😊
Absolutely beautiful. Masterful. I do wish there was a material list. How may I get the plans with instructions to make this?
Scrolled randomly across this and just wanted to stop by and say how freaking good this chess set looks.
Thank you so much
I can’t wait to build this for myself. Looks like a ton of fun to build
Flippin Trippin!
Show de bola , gostei !!!!
Sensacional 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Afyer seeing this . Yup . I went and made it . Did mine in cedar and pearl colored epoxy . But i did and more lighrs that you did . All squares light up the same . Turned out awesome. Thanks for the idea mate .
RGB makes this more powerful. Amazing work!
Lovely chess set. You set the king and queen up on the wrong squares though😜
Queen on her own color. It bothered my OCD too.
Thanks. You are right, it was my mistake. Everything will be right next time. 😊
Now you should make chess pieces to match the board. 👍💯💯
Pewter or Quartz Crystal chessmen would bring it up into stellar range. :)
Thanks. Next time I will make chess pieces too
So good checker bord pattern!
This is one of the nicest sets I've seen 😍 Its so beautiful
One of the coolest boards I've seen, the changing lights might be a little distracting while playing, I think that I'd keep it a solid color during matches, otherwise good job man
It's an rbg gaming board
Очень красиво получилось!
Thank you so much
RGB Chess. A *true* gamer's delight.
This is awesome I'm going to make one for my wife. Thanks for the idea.
This is totally amazing! Sorry to nitpick, but I'm a bit nerdy. The pieces are set up incorrectly. The queen and king are swapped. White queen goes on light square (d1). I thought maybe the video is mirror inverted, but it's not, and the squares are the correct orientation (dark a1).
Little did you know that he actually setup a game of Fischer Random Chess (Chess960) and this was the random starting position
@@JonathanChute haha, good point!
It's good, I like it. I do think there's some room for improvement. I'd have laid down rows or columns of LED lights as well as around the perimeter. Also I'm not a fan of the charred wood effect but that's just personal aesthetic preference.
Wow, beautiful- thank you for inspiring us!
Beautiful!!! Great job!!
Excelente e lindo trabalho 👏👏👏
Obrigado
I was looking at the thumbnail, and I know it's probably outside your wheelhouse, but a chessboard made out of two different colored epoxies, with LEDs and magnetic sensors underneath tied to a single-board computer with a program to play chess. Magnets in the chess pieces would let the computer know where the pieces were, and it could flash the squares of which piece it wanted to move and where it wanted it moved.
Soooooo - a game that played itself?
never gonna happen on this channel lol
@@zalmaflash It could, or you can play against the computer, or the computer can suggest possible moves ... For beginners, like me.
Wow just wow only thing that would make this epic is I change the chess pieces to glass ones and this would look great on my table in my living room I be honored if I can buy one like this great job my friend
I LOVE CHESS SOO MUCH THAT IT LOOKS PRICELESS
Cool project! Although I'm confused if the transparent squares are supposed to be black or white. It seems obvious because of the black dye, but It completely changes when you turn off the lights. It may also be the case based on the Queens' positions.
In that case it wouldn't matter and you could choose either or.
I had the same question. "Queen on her own color" is the standard, and it seemed to me that the queens were set on the opposite color, from how I viewed the design of the board.
He actually set it up wrong, because the light square is always in the lower right corner, which in how he set it up, is the wood. So the queens are on the wrong square.@@dalemcdowell2684
I love it! Can the lights be set to just one colour? How much would it cost-for purchase, without the pieces-I think it deserves pewter or stone chessmen. Outstanding workmanship!
Yeah, that remote you see in 21:00 in the upper left is used to control the LEDs. You can set it to all kinds of animations, or just one color.
It's $5 for 6 feet of leds, and they change color. Buy amazon.
❤ ! Thanks for bringing this to the table ! Hope you sell some !
Finally a glowing gamer chess .
Получилось великолепно
Большое спасибо
Having spent so much time & effort in building such a beautiful piece, why did you not mitre cut the corners of the wooden base? Being able to see the end grain of 1 piece on each side makes it look rather amateur. Other than that...Most Excellent...I Want One !!!
Great project! Good job ❤
I'm obsessed with your art!!!!!
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Some suggestions for improvements: 1. Glue the frame together with a 45° cut to each side (Mitre saw) 2. Insert the acrylic glas into the frame so it is flush with the wood and does not rest on top 3. Depending on the looks, I'd prefer to have each layer of epoxy in the same tint, so you do not have the different shades when viewed from the side.
dude, the king and queen should be in opposite position
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@@micheledonzelli4360 thanks i know it was my mistake
I know its a few months later but if you made such a beautiful board how could you set up the pieces wrong 😭
Fun fact, when he turns off lights it looks like black and white squares are reversed (21:06) xD
When I saw how he put the pieces wrong I immediately looked to see if anyone else noticed it omg. I literally died inside when I saw that
What a great effort and result. Well done!
Absolutely stunning
The only problem with using clear epoxy is over time it turns cloudy and a horrible shade of yellow and goes rubbery and looses its bond if it’s bonded to a substrate so it’s better to use a dye pigment to change its colour which stops it from turning yellow but won’t stop the cloudiness over time. Even all UV resistant epoxy does this eventually. I hope this helps someone..
This is why I only use the Liquid Glass epoxy, never had any yellowing even months-years after. I'm sure it will a little bit and maybe it has but it's not noticeable in anything I've done. I've used others that have yellowed after a couple weeks that claim to be UV resistant.
@@joshuaholden4303 I’ve tried about 15 that claim they are either UV resistant or not effected by UV at all it was only when I spoke to a chemist that I found out that all epoxy’s use phenolics or some form of a phenolic catalyst and I mean all of them, anyway she said it’s not just UV it’s most of them like UVA UVB UVC that break the polymers in the epoxy resin down. This photochemical reaction is responsible for more than just turning the epoxy resin yellowish because you can add UVA protection but to get 100% UV protection you need to give it shades like sunglasses this means adding pigments. It’s only a matter of time before it yellows or goes cloudy might take months or a year but it will happen regardless of a manufactures claims. There are better alternatives out there though especially for casting but epoxy with out dye is a no go.
Beautiful piece of work! One tip though, the music is nauseating! It nearly drove me batty after 20+ minutes of it. It also masks the sounds of you working and your tools. I'd much rather hear the sounds of your work even if there is no narration.
Was going to say the same thing lol. Playing some music is fine but you gotta mix it up, having the same song play over and over for 20 mins makes the video unlistenable after about 5 mins.
Queen in his color. XD Anyway fantastic.
Stunning build!
Great work congratulations. ... the only thing is that the chess pieces were not set properly in the end. 😊. Please no offense, just an observation. I wish I had your skill and patience.
Thanks. You are right, it was my mistake. Everything will be right next time. 😊
Queen always on her color