FLEX PAD CHESS BOARDS (thin type)

I'm nobody but I think that linen looks excellent in the photos and I actually think it looks really cool "showing through" the red and black squares, too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Hey Shelby, when you mail out these Flexpads in the cardboard tube can you minimize the amount of stickers, labels and invoice pouch on the outside of the tube? I'm sure I'm not the only one who recycles the shipping tube and uses it as frugal roll-up board storage. Peeling the labels wrecks the surface of the cardboard tube. You'll be saving 6 trees. Thank you for your consideration.

Hi Shelby,  I think this also looks good.  I will add one thing if I may:

These look really good.  I like the photos.  While I appreciate that the industry as a whole has gone to flexible/rollable playmats there are times where I'd actually like/need some sort of hard surface.  It would be nice if either:

a) some of these boards could be made available with a folding hard back - like the original linen board that's being replicated, or

b) perhaps you could make some sized blank folding boards that one could lay a flexpad on.

I think this could be useful in many situations where free tablespace with two opposing chairs  is hard to come by.  Hotel rooms, dorms, some outdoor areas, etc.

Wow... Just Wow!

OK, so the original linen boards weren't red/black and they didn't have notation

So what... I want one of THOSE boards

@ShelbyLohrman  Any chance I could get something like this printed?

It's looking great Shelby. 

Very Nice!!!! My current Dreuke linen board spends more than 1/2 time with my wife using it as a lap desk. I'm looking forward to seeing these on your site and getting one [or two]. -Bill

Yeah. Don't mind me. I was being cheap. LOL. I haven't even used the shipping tube for storage yet because my son and I use the Red&Black literally every day before school since we received it. It's his favorite out of all my boards. Thanks for making it happen!

I spoke with Shelby last night and saw the pictures.

He forgot to mention a couple things about the notation.

First, he is going to make the letters and numbers a smaller font size.

He also is going to make some of this board with no letters or numbers at all.

Hey, that last board looks like my linen board! 😏. Oh, it is. 😉

This is not my board order so accept my opinion with a grain of salt. The green does not look dark enough in comparison. I think the green needs a touch more "K" in the color formula. And the light squares need a touch more "Y". A pic of the Flexpad overlapping onto the original linen board would be helpful. 

I pretty much want one of all of them...because that's just the kind of person I am

I like the pics, however the colors do seem a bit muted/faded compared to the original.  Is that on purpose?

Well, I can answer this, sort of.

The linen board is mine and I can tell you the color of the light squares is really more yellow than pictured here.  
When talking with Shelby we decided that too much yellow in a board would not be so good with a lot of sets with whiter, less yellow pieces.  For example look at how nice the Ultimate plastic set looks on the pictured board.  If the white squares had as much yellow as the original board, they wouldn’t look so good.

Shelby tells me the green of his board is pretty much an exact match to the green of the original.

I asked him to put some wood pieces on this board to see how they look.  

The light squares look too white and the green squares seem too muted.  In fact, the vinyl board reminds me of a tile floor in a warehouse.

Thanks! I'm debating how much I wanted it now. How long will it take to get the production models in?

The green in the actual board looks darker than the flex repro unless that is all camera. But the shade of green looks different by itself. 

Thanks! I think I will wait for the production models.

In the one picture on FB, the green did not looks as deep as the original and was lighter. Maybe it was the camera? It looked like a standard green they used to use a lot on vinyl boards in the days.  Are these also made in the USA?  Thx Mike

I didn't used to worry about how my pieces looked... then these forums ruined that for me, as has been stated in other posts here. Now I'm that way with these boards!  I bought the Purple/Black Bobby Fischer board off of Amazon before I learned all about this here, and it was the best thing ever.  Then, I succumbed to peer pressure and bought the butter yellow ultimate pieces.  The yellow and black on the Purple looks awesome.  Now that one is the best ever.

...until this thread.  So I ordered a wood grain board recently, and put my wooden pieces on it. That is the best one... well, you get it.  So now I feel the burning need to upgrade to the red and black board.  I even ordered some Wood Expressions checkers to hold me over for the 5 week production lead time.

Thank you for all of this work, Shelby! This is fun to watch.