Subj : piano keys to chess pieces
To   : Shawn Highfield
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Mar 22 2021 22:06:00

Hello Shawn!

** On Monday 22.03.21 - 11:13, you wrote to me:

 SH>   I was thinking it would be laminate, but I'd try my hand
 SH>   at carving through it and into the wood.  Leaving some of
 SH>   the ivory as accent.  I'd probably turn it into the white
 SH>   king or queen in a chess set I'm carving for a freind of
 SH>   mine.

Sounds like a nice project.

As far as I know, piano keys have always been made with wood and  
laminated with ivory and now plastic.

A carved king/queen would only have the white on one side.   
Ideally, you might like two keys that you can place back to back  
(each one cut thinner?  ..or remove the white part from one key  
and put it on the other?) so that you have the white on two  
opposite sides for one chess piece?

 AA>> I would have to get rid of the sofa bed first..

 SH>   Amazing how much stuff we end up with isn't it?  I got
 SH>   rid of garbage bin loads of it plus trips to the dump and
 SH>   I still have an insane amount of crap in both this
 SH>   apartment and my friends basement.

There was a period of time when I had accumulated hundreds of  
pounds of magazines and newspapers in just a handful of years.  
There's probably still even more stuff that I could "release" to  
the dump.



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