Gluing felt bases back on

Just curious if anybody (or everybody) glues the felt back on pieces when they fall off.  I am mostly referring to plastic chess pieces.  Mine seem to fall off all the time and I always glue them back on.  I would be shocked if the majority of people do but I am to OCD to leave them off.

So... What do you do?

Maybe try using one of those glue sticks....you don't want to use an excessive amount of glue such that it could seep completely through the felt..

I refelted a cheap plastic set with furniture felt (sold so that chairs could slide on wooden and tile floors). I think that I used rubber cement. I did this in 1999. At the time, I owned two plastic sets. Now I have dozens, but the set that I refelted remains my favorite.

This is also an excellent general purpose glue for wood, plastic, rubber, almost any surface.  Bonds very well...

http://www.amazon.com/00107-3-Ounce-Weldwood-Contact-Cement/dp/B000M2SKNU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450590127&sr=8-1&keywords=contact+cement

Note the brand name is "Weldwood"....but the glue is general purpose...

use it SPARINGLY when gluing felt onto bottom of chess pieces...

Does anybody sell sets of felts sized for the standard (3.75" King) sets? I could use some.

I've re-felted several of my sets.  What I do is pick up sheets of felt with adhesive backing from Wal-mart and cut squares out big enough for each piece.  Then I stick the piece on the square and trim the felt around the base of the piece.  Works great.  Here is an example of what I use:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Adhesive-Back-Stiff-Felt-6-X9-18-Pkg-Bold-Colors/48594062

Besides that, all you need is scissors.

I just refelted a few pieces the other day. Like Oatmeal I cut squares to fit the pieces, attached with adhesive, and then trimmed the excess. I just attached with some Elmer's wood glue. Usually I'd use white glue, but the wood glue was right there. Alan Dewey has an excellent instructional video on this, which I commend to your viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTs255j9xhA&feature=youtu.be

Interesting, just watched the Alan Dewey you tube video. Only two questions I came away with it what is the difference between felt and baize and why the difference in the glue.  I always thought pool felt was baize and it was just a thicker form of a quality frlt. Not talking paper felt material here.  

Amyways Alan in the viseo makes it look fairly easy. 

i think alan means natural vs synthetic; real wool felt & hide glue vs polyester & chemical gunk ;-)

You can buy stick-on felting from Walmart but you have to cut the circles yourself.  

I could do that, but I don't trust myself to trim neat circles.

Thanks. I've done that, but I always get bits of felt fuzz sticking out. Maybe I need a better quality of felt or better scissors.

One thing you can do is to get black, white, red, whatever color felt to match the piece color. I know you're not supposed to see the piece bottom normally, but it is a nice touch -- I think.

I think sharper scissors would fix that problem.