Should I put my chess set into production?

hehe, last night before going to sleep I looked again and thought of saying something to you about the rook to make it more consistent with the rest of the set. You did it. And I like the greater chunkiness of the rook turret. 

I think this is the best so far. The sharp angle in the bishop's elbow does indeed solve the bishop arm problem for me. Amazing what a little angle tweak makes.

And I actually like the moderated points on the queen's crown. I can't make out in the pictures, but I hope you've left the queen's face disc. I thought it was lovely. 

Good work. 

I've been debating with myself if the king should have a face outline as well, or if I should remove it from the queen. I kind of like the fact that they are different. The queen having a face kind of makes her a bit more feminine and connect a bit with the surroundings. I don't know.

I kind of think the ornament on the top of the kings crown needs to be a little bigger to finish off the overall shape of the piece better. Maybe I should give in and put a cross there, even though I don't really like to put two crosses on the piece. I could make it a different style though, like the cross on this crown:

All the pictures are in high resolution (you could use them as a background on a 1920x1080 monitor). If you right click on them and select "view image" from the menu, then you can see the queen's "face" quite clearly.

the design is nice but i prefer you put a shield (kinda like the shield of a footman in warcraft) infront or middle front of each pawn (since youve put a hand on the bishop queen and king) instead of the baby bottle nipple looking on top of each pawn. But the rest of the design is brilliant. And to answer your question if you should put it in production? hell yeah!

A little shield... Hmm... That might work. I've been contemplating if I should give the pawns arms as well, and every time I ran that train of thought, it arrived at the platform that said "no".

But a discrete little shield. Maybe.

Looks really nice but personally I wouldn't mess around with magnets as they can create lots of problems, specially Neodymium magnets as they are really powerful and you will have problems with their poles. 

Little shields. I don't know. Makes the pawns look kind of cute. Problem is that cute is not what I'm aiming for. Every little detail you add to a pawn gets duplicated 16 times around the board. That is a lot of "noise" you introduce.

I'll let the idea simmer for a while before I make a final decision.

my two cents...or two dollars ;-> I like the queens face disc and I like the king without it. Accentuates the queen's femininity exactly as you feel.

shieldes on the pawns? I'll believe it when I see it. I don't see any set consistency with shileds on pawns, but like I said, I'll know better if I see it.  I think they're great as is. Hands on the pawns...maybe, small m maybe, let's see but let's not lose the current pawn. I'm very skeptical of hands on pawns, but at least there would be a set consistensy to it if you could pull it off. As is, the much improved pawn base and neck and ball are pretty damn good. 

I think this set is getting very close to production quality. my two cents, as always ;->

Yeah... After the comments about the pawns needing to be weighed in a specific way, so that they don't "drag", I kind of gave up that idea. I just thought that it would be kind of neat to have the pieces center themselves on the squares, but it would be stupid to add extra cost to the set for a feature that may actually annoy more than it helps.

I'd change the heads if I were you:

What's the design rationale behind the nipple heads?  It feels like four different sets to me, not really 'hanging together' if you take my meaning.

Great work. I love the King and Queen!

-Ted

In your initial design, where pawns had those wonderfully impractical but gorgeously slender shafts, the nipples made some sense as they were roughly the same diameter and added a finishing touch.  Now, not so much... I know you wanted to make the pawns look a bit more important than in an ordinary set.  Maybe it's time to try shielded pawns minus the nipples?

What if you gave the pawns little swords or daggers in front of their shields too? It might make them look a bit more lethal.

shields are far too busy on the pawns. And seeing the bishop from the new angle I see the amazing good work you did on the bishop's elbow, which transformed the moustache into great arms. That was inspired on your part. 

I honestly really hate the shields. The pawns are not supposed to be that showy in my view. Everything else is almost perfect I think.

Yes. It was an interesting idea. Easy to try out, but I don't think it really works, so out they go again.

took me a while to catch up... i am really enjoying your work lovemagnet thanks for sharing, i know its tough to throw your baby out in the world and hear the pluses and minuses, but you are doing some very nice work.

I saw what someone had said about your straying from your original design and i compared the 2, and it really made me appreciate your original idea so much more, i really dont see why you couldnt offer 3 styles of each piece since 3d printing would easily allow for it... just a thought.

Now when it comes to your current design (kudos on the kings crown, you nailed it, and the more ornamentation the better, i think your design definitely warrants it) but i like how you had the king and queens heads different shapes in the 1st design and i think you should go back to that idea. Since they already have arms (which you've won me over on) give him a nice square chin and jaw, and make her head taller and more slender, i also thought what if she had shoulder length hair coming forward in the muted pattern of the knight but with the texture of the bishops hat! Make her sexy and wild; more of a stallion than even the knight!

These changes might make it more of a modern much sleeker "Isle of Lewis" set but i think the arms are already trending that direction anyway so why not run with it?

Last note: your original pawns were superior in my opinion they were more important than your current pawns because they were more sophisticated, no one is going to claim your original pawns were fat mindless dullards

yes, it was worth trying.

Regarding the pawns, they were more "special" before the redesign, but also very frail looking. I think that utterly thin neck they had would have scared me away from buying the set if i was a potential customer. If the set is to be produced, the have to stay more or less as they are now. The so-called "nipples" should stay in my opinion, they give the set that "not another staunton" feeling you are looking for.

I like this.  

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• < no one is going to claim your original pawns were fat mindless dullards>

  haha, great! Funny!

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  Regarding the pawns, they were more "special" before the redesign, but also very frail looking. I think that utterly thin neck they had would have scared me away from buying the set if i was a potential customer. If the set is to be produced, the have to stay more or less as they are now. The so-called "nipples" should stay in my opinion, they give the set that "not another staunton" feeling you are looking for.

  <"not another staunton" feeling> I like that. Great expressions.