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Candidate35
Jan 12, 2016
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#201
Well yes pesos is far different than USD. Sadly I don't think those pieces are in stock according to their website and from a mock shipment they say undeliverable to my location. I'm holding out hope something can be arranged though so I'm waiting for their email response. Fingers crossed!
Jan 12, 2016
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#202
I'd think they could too but surprised they said undeliverable when I tried to set up one. I'm sure that won't be an issue however, I'm more concerned about the pieces being listed as "exhausted" instead of " in existence" as their other products are. We'll see!
Something a bit different: Xiangqi sets I've made.
Cherry-wood set made from a tree in my grandmother's yard which was cut down.
This set ended up being too large to be practical, so I made a board for some other pieces I had made previously.
verylate wrote:
cool xiangqi sets. how do you keep the wood discs from splitting?
When I was making it several of the blanks did split, and a few of the pieces have split slightly since then. But the whole set is very rustic anyway so it's not really a matter to me. Xianqi sets are rarely refined.
These look pretty nice, Jack. Can you write Chinese, or did you just copy the characters? I've always struggled with proper stroke order, and could never attain decent harmony and elegance in my caligraphy.
Fun fact - I never got serious about Xiangqi, but I do remain unbeaten against my (Chinese) sister-in-law.... :)
FrankHelwig wrote:
These look pretty nice, Jack. Can you write Chinese, or did you just copy the characters? I've always struggled with proper stroke order, and could never attain decent harmony and elegance in my caligraphy.
Fun fact - I never got serious about Xiangqi, but I do remain unbeaten against my (Chinese) sister-in-law.... :)
I can't write Chinese. I have taken some Japanese classes so that helped, but mostly I was only copying the characters from photos.
As a game Xianqi is slightly easier to reach an intermediate level in playing. I'll agree with verylate that it is an aggressive game with much of the strategy being of the threat-counterthreat variety.
Candidate35 escribió:
RobertoLM, is there a website you purchased that from?
This one was obtained in "El mercado de Artesanias de la Ciudadela, México City" (A craft's traditional market). I see you had contacted Omcor Chess.
Similar, but not the same, Arsel has one similiar model too.
http://www.arsel.com.mx/ajedrez.html
Jan 13, 2016
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#208
Well I haven't heard back from Omcorchess yet so losing a bit of hope there.
Jan 13, 2016
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#209
Candidate35 wrote:
I'd think they could too but surprised they said undeliverable when I tried to set up one. I'm sure that won't be an issue however, I'm more concerned about the pieces being listed as "exhausted" instead of " in existence" as their other products are. We'll see!
The sales rep told me the pieces will be available at the end of the month. He asked me if I wanted to be notified when they were in. He knew I was from the US, so it's clear that they ship here.
Jan 13, 2016
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#210
Candidate35 wrote:
Well I haven't heard back from Omcorchess yet so losing a bit of hope there.
Chill, dude! Try writing to oscarculbeaux@omcorchess.com. Oscar wrote right back to me.
Jan 13, 2016
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#211
Jack_Burton wrote:
Something a bit different: Xiangqi sets I've made.
Cherry-wood set made from a tree in my grandmother's yard which was cut down.
This set ended up being too large to be practical, so I made a board for some other pieces I had made previously.
Very impressive, Jack. Very impressive.
Jan 13, 2016
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#212
Interesting, cgrau, where did you get that contact email? The one listed on their website that I saw was elenavalero@omcorchess.com. I'll contact them early next month then, thanks!
Jan 13, 2016
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#213
Candidate35 wrote:
Interesting, cgrau, where did you get that contact email? The one listed on their website that I saw was elenavalero@omcorchess.com. I'll contact them early next month then, thanks!
C, he responded to the inquiry I sent via their contact link. Buena suerte!
Another Mezquite-Sacred Fir mexican chess-set. The "Tiger".
All jade. Mayan theme hand carved in Guatemala
I like the knight design on this set of mine:
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