title: Wooden Chess Sets You Can Make: 9 Complete Designs for the Scroll Saw
author: Diana L. Thompson
description: Wooden Chess Sets You Can Make by Diana Thompson, presents nine chess set designs that can be made on the scroll saw. It's an easy-to-follow guide for the young, beginning around the shop. The book is an introduction to compound sawing, which the author describes as a technique of making two cuts on one pattern to create a three-dimensional piece. The patterns are presented so they can be cut out and adhered directly to 1-1/2" stock. The chess set designs include a woodworker's set with the pieces resembling a saw, drill bit, hammer, pliers, screwdriver and screws. There's also instruction for making a chessboard. The 66-page softcover sells for $14.95.
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  Photo credits:
  
  Dwayne Gosnell: 7, 48, and all step-by-step photos
  
  Mike Mihalo: front cover, 2–3, 4-5, 6, 8, 9, 16–17, 18, and all photos of
  finished chess pieces
  
  Courtesy Shutterstock: Sandra Cunningham 16–17 (Christmas tree background);
  Fortyforks, 17 (top right); primopiano cover, 1, 2, 4–5, 17 (wood background);
  Verock 19, 23, 26, 30, 34, 39
  
  © 2020 by Dwayne Gosnell and Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., 903 Square
  Street, Mount Joy, PA 17552.
  
   _Woodcarving a Christmas Chess Set_ is an original work, first published in
  2020 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc. The patterns contained herein are
  copyrighted by the author. Readers may make copies of these patterns for
  personal use. The patterns themselves, however, are not to be duplicated for
  resale or distribution under any circumstances. Any such copying is a
  violation of copyright law.
  
  Print ISBN 978-1-4971-0137-1  
  eISBN 978-1-6076-577