Sewing circle or Circular saw?

[liadethornegge]

Well, I didn't end up having my own little sewing circle. Instead I engaged in some woodworking. I ferreted out a nice piece of birchwood in my father's woodshop, measured out a good size on it (constrained by the shortest side being 195 mm) and marked it out as a gameboard. Hnefatafl on one side and Nine Men's Morris on the other. I was unsure how to mark the edges and whatnot, but had the idea of using a heat stick thingy to burn it in. Said and done, I did. When I was nearing completion on the hnefatafl-side my father asked if I wanted to fill every other square with a pattern, because he has the stuff to burn patterns into wood. I didn't want to fill in every other square (he was thinking Chess and you could use it for chess if you ignore one row and one column) but I did want to fill in the corners and the centre square. Said and done, there it is.

I also marked the board on both sides with my mark (LT joined up for Lia de Thornegge). We used a router to hollow out the places for the pieces on the Nine Men's Morris side. My mother had glass marbles I could steal for this. I'll have to find oval glass pieces or something else for the hnefatafl game. My father asked how to make chess pieces - you can turn most of them - so he might get it into his head to make a set. I won't complain. I will also make a little leather pouch for the game pieces.

Once the fabrication and decoration was done, my father heated up some cold pressed linseed oil and slathered it on, let it soak in for fifteen minutes and then wiped the excess off. The result is what I link to above. When it's completely dry - probably tomorrow - I will take an old pair of pantyhose and buff it up to a nice shine and I will have my very own gameboard for SCA events!

My father also recognized Nine Men's Morris as a game he played as a child. (He called it Rävspel, but I think he meant Kvarn).

Comments

[johannaelisabet.livejournal.com]

Det finns rundslipade platta glasbitar som brukar användas som dekoration i blomkrukor. Du kanske kan använda dem som spelpjäser. Det går att etsa in en markering om du vill skilja på pjäserna. De finns i de flesta affärer som har blomkrukor. Det brukar finnas i många färger.

Johanna

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Precis de jag tänkte använda också :) Finns även hos Uppsala Färg i ett antal färger.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Very nice indeed! If your Dad's going to turn chess pieces for you, why not ask him to turn you some nice hnefetafl pieces too?

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

And get 7 shotglasses!

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean 14! They've got to be small enough to fit inside my little squares. They're only 21 mm square. Dunno where to get such tiny shot glasses. And 14 of them all at once.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

You only need 7 in total, not seven a side.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

*thinks for a minute or ten*

Oh yeah.. that's right... I'm stupid.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Yes, but cute :)=

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

I might do. But I kind of like the idea of glass pieces

[belfebe.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[amonik.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!