HELP REPAIRING A BROKEN KINGS CROWN

Grow up. 

@MickinMD has a good point, if it is a tiny piece there may not be enough surface area for the wood glue to "grab".

 

If you have a small enough drill, you can make a hole (drill from the bottom so it does not show) in the cross and a hole in the body of the King, and use a toothpick or a paper clip as a dowel.  The same idea as using 'biscuits' to join wood to make a cutting board or a table top.  The trick is going to be getting the holes in just the right places with the proper alignment.  Whatever you use as a dowel or biscuit would also add surface area for the glue to grab as in comment #24.

@MickinMD I used a glue called Titebond, similair to gorrilla glue. So far so good. But I am on my guard if the piece does fall to the ground again.

@Rsava

It just fell of my board during an analysis session. Freaked me out cuz I thought a set made for Blitz would withstand hard impacts on tile flooring.

Oh yeah I remember one day I saw a post on the GM Blitz edition and you were on one of the posts. You were updating us with how you had trouble getting replacements rooks for your off weighted rooks from the original set they sent.

That post really helped me out to have them send me replacements for my Black Knights because they were 38gs versus the white knights which were 51gs, which was double the percentage of the 10% leeway stated on the description. Thankfully I perservered with the emailing just like you did and after a really long complaint, they decided to send me two black knights of 50 grams.

I love this set so much that I also considering to buy another set from them. But if the customer support team failed to satisfy the problem than I would have cut ties.

The positive is that they were able to help me (it was a battle though)
the negative was that since I live in Guam, the shipping took 30 days! and when I recieved the pieces after a long anticipation, there were noticeable defects. It sucks because I specifically asked them to double inspect my order because I live far far away and going back and forth shipping replacement pieces would be a hassle. So as a first time buyer, they broke a promise.

At least now, its tsall good!!
Hopefully my email battle would not only help me with my second purchase, but other chess lovers who are willing to buy a set from them because TIME,COMMUNICATION AND QUALITY is priority to customers.

How is your set doing BTW?

@KillTheHorsie

Dude that it such a great idea. Sadly I only saw this post now. But the next time it breaks off, I will do this method for sure.

@MickiMD

I apologize. I did not use Titebond, I used Loctite super glue.

You're telling us that your knights were a little light in the saddle?

@oregonpatzer

ya

I wouldn't hold my breath on the your next purchase. I know some people love them but I now have three sets from them. The GM Blitz set, the Fierce Knight set, and the 1950s Soviet Latvian set. 

I had the problems with the Blitz set as noted, I had problems with the Latvian set (as noted elsewhere) that took a loooooonnnnnnnnggggggg time (3 months to ship, another 28 days to receive) to resolve and the resolution was less than good. I just pulled out my Fierce Knight set to use (after a long time of not using it) and the dark pieces (red stained) had a white substance over them. When I rubbed it off (came off easily) the finish is pitted. It is too much of a hassle to deal with them so I will just settle for pitted pieces. I did not pay that much for the set.

Good luck in your future dealings with them.

 

Great suggestion! Being a former machinist, that approach appealed to me. I`ve done similar repairs using a Dremel tool to make a small groove to set the crown with gluing with Crazy Glue.