chess pieces.
Years ago, I started a set out of a bar of ø1.25 brass that had been "laying around" for 6+ years.
I wrote the code long hand, and keyed it in to a bar-fed Warner & Swasey 2SC with a GE-1050 control (no way to back it up... just a tape reader).
This was my lunch-time project for 2 months... normal production during normal hours, but from 7:00 to 8:00pm, I was a chess-piece making fool.
The other set was made from remnants of dura-bar.
I never finished the set; they made me a programmer after one of my pieces was found by day shift in the parts catcher, and I never went back to running a machine.
But that was 15 years ago, and I only have four or five of the pieces left. So please, MBG... make an old machinist happy, and make a nice, unique, awesome chess set! |