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DIY Beer cap & wood burner chessboard

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Channel: Robb's Homemade Life · 2016 · Howto & Style

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Here is a quick project you can let your kids do. Take a piece of scrap wood or cheap underlay ply and some beer bottle caps and make a rustic chessboard and pieces using a wood burner and a jigsaw. I haven't seen anyone else make this, it was a lot of fun and came out pretty good.
 I used a jigsaw, a 16-inch square piece of 1/8 inch plywood, a woodburner kit, a speed square, a yardstick, some Minwax Cherry finish, a brush, and 32 beer bottle caps with designs that would lend themselves to substituting for chess pieces. You can also paint the underside of the bottle caps black and white to make checkers.
 The wood burner is a lot of fun to play around with. The model I bought has a temperature control and came with a nice variety of tips that allowed e to make many designs.
 I am a rank beginner at woodburning, if you want to  know more there are many good videos on youtube showing what wood burners are capable of.

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with Versa-Temp Variable Temperature Control
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Robb Moffett
 Robb's Homemade Life

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