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May 27, 2022
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@ZIMBABWEED19 Please can you post some close up pictures of such a repair? This sounds easier than messing about with ebony sawdust
IpswichMatt-- I will try to send pictures. I have to get my computer repairman to help. I am a novice when it comes to computers.
Here are the pictures of some of the chess pieces that I repaired with starbond black ca glue.
These repairs are less obvious under normal lighting. These pieces looked just like the cracked ebony pieces pictured earlier in this post. The crack is filled with solid black ca glue. If I had a lathe and the polishing equipment of a professional restorer, I would have been able to do a better job. I do not have to use "replacements" that do not match the rest of the set.
Jun 2, 2022
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ZIMBABWAEED19 wrote:
These repairs are less obvious under normal lighting. These pieces looked just like the cracked ebony pieces pictured earlier in this post. The crack is filled with solid black ca glue. If I had a lathe and the polishing equipment of a professional restorer, I would have been able to do a better job. I do not have to use "replacements" that do not match the rest of the set.
@ZIMBABWAEED19 Sorry, but it seems to me that the ebony dust and polishing method proposed by @IpswichMatt is finer though. That way there is not even a hairline crack left on chessmen.
There is a complaint here about chess bazaar :
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/chess-bazaar-beware-of-guarantee And many others are unhappy.
Many, MANY more people are VERY HAPPY with their products, including myself. Based on more than 20 sets I purchased there, not just on one. But you'll never hear from those people, only from the whiners.....
Pardon me for asking, but what do you do with that many chess sets?
I tell my wife, "I love them all - they're like my kids. Except much better-behaved."
She was not amused.