custom Made Chessboard

Hello

I was wondering if anybody in here had custom made Chessboard. I was thinking to have one made but wondering if it would be more expensive compared to the ones already made for sale

Thank you

You can get some great deals on custom made solid wood chess boards. I have three custom boards from Bill Nelson at "Bill's WoodPile", and just ordered a new board yesterday from Brad at the "BnVShop," both on Etsy. Prices (for the boards I ordered, sans frames) were under $150, including shipping. And the quality of the boards I have received has been VG+, and I'm pretty picky.

I checked them out on Etsy. Their boards look great! Thanks Loubalch!

Home Depot and Lowes seem to be getting a lot of our business of late 

LOL. I'm posting on this very thing later.

He said chess board, not cheese board! An easy mistake if you live here in Wisconsin.

On Wisconsin.

Here in Wis-con-sin, chess knerds eat cheese curds, and yogurt is the most popular active culture!

MMMM, cheese curds and frozen custard with a side of butter burger. Can't be beat.

LOL. We missed Culver's on our last trip to America's Dairyland, but hit Kopp's twice.

oooooh, Kopp's. Best custer this side of anywhere!

I am getting ready to make a felt squared chess board I will be mounting 2 inch squAres onto foam core or Masonite then clear lucite and framing the whole thing.

Please post photos when you finish. We'd all love to see it!

Most definitely!

Finally got to Kopps last week.  So decadent.  It was well worth the years it probably took off my life.  :-)

Yeah, but if those are years of senile dementia, you won't care!

I have a custom made board, built by customchess.com If you're referring to luxury boards using exotic hardwoods, you will probably get a better deal having it custom-made vs buying one already built, since you don't have to go through a retailer but you can deal directly with the guy building the board. In additiona, you can design the board and select the wood exactly the way you want it. On the other hand, you'll have to wait for the board to be built, and you possibly won't have the quality assurance you'd expect to get from a retailer like HoS, and you'd have to trust the maker if things go wrong.

In general, though, I'd recommend sticking w/ basic veneer boards rather than buying luxury hardwood chess boards. I'd rather put money into pieces, and prefer a plain board, which is less distracting when playing a game.

Here's the board (w/ a club-size vintage Jaques):

And here's another one I had custom-built that broke during shipping:

Here's what it looked like when it arrived and I opened up the packaging:

 

And despite my advise to the contrary, I couldn't resist the temptation and just recently bought another one, which is currently being made. If all goes well, it will look like this once finished:

Nice boards, Frank!

Well, my good chess playing friend does framing for a living.  With a neighbor that is a mechanical engineer and a woodworker with all the equipment, we made a couple of boards 10 yyears ago or so.  One of the boards was solid wood that we made using the wood strip method.  The other was a veneer board that the wood shop store manager convinced me to build.  I bought a frame for each one and my friend, Wayne, simply framed the boards.  I have since sold one and given the other to a friend.

Like Frank, I have come to the point where I don't care for the expensive, high end wood boards.  So, the ones I currently use are less expensive veneers, excepting the 2 Drueke boards I own.

But when you can get solid wooden boards custom made for under $150 with shipping, it's hard to resist. This way, I get to match the woods in the boards to those of my chess pieces.

2.5" Padauk/Northern Ash (.75" thick)