Important to mention is that the idea came last year from my colleague Flaviano who suggested making a wooden chessboard, after which I took it to the next level and started the granite chessboard.
It’s not finished yet and it won’t be for another couple of weeks, but it’s starting to shape and that’s why I thought it might be ready for “show & tell”. Here’s how it went until now.
First I had to choose the granite materials and I decided for a Balmoral Red and a New Venetian Gold because of the small quantities I needed and the fact that I found some material scraps. Also, I had to choose another piece of granite on which the squares will be later on “glued” and initially I went for something grey, but then my brother had a great idea and partially because of the granite texture, partially because of the size, partially because of the needs, I finally decided for another piece of New Venetian Gold.
After this, the squares needed to be cut to size, more specific 8cm x 8cm thus resulting in a total of almost 70cm for each side of the chess board (borders included).
Once the squares were cut, they needed to be perfected on the corners and polished on the upside borders for a better design and this took a lot of time.
I hope that by the end of the week I will finish the borders surrounding the chess squares. Once that will be done, I will have to order the metallic table legs and that’s the tricky part, because the great idea behind this chessboard is that it can be flipped over and used as a chessboard or as a garden / balcony table for coffee, tea or anything you want.
I’ll keep you posted how it goes with the final details, meanwhile I leave you with a teaser from another project already on the roll and the invitation to leave your impressions. Cheers!
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