New Designs for the Wood Grain MousePad Chess Boards

The first 2 designs went over so well,  I decided to make 5 new designs!    

Would love to get your opinions!  Put them up on my Facebook page and sold 40 the first day.

This is the Camphor Burl

Wow...I really like these and I'll get one as I await my wood board.

They all look great Shelby. Great job.

Looks lovely, but is postage to Australia really $168?

buy these boards here...

http://amchesseq.com/Chess-Boards_c_12.html

Nice boards.  The walnut burl is my favourite so far.

I still think the grain patterns should run horizontalally instead of vertically. After all, our field of vision is a lot wider than it is tall.

Compare the above to a board with vertical grain to the one below. I orginally ordered this board with horizontal grain, but the construction was so poor I had to flip it over to get a decent playing surface. BTW, I decided to keep the board (for a 50% discount) and took it to a local woodworking shop for extensive planing.

I just ordered the 20 inch mousepad walnut chessboard.....nice!

http://amchesseq.com/Walnut-MousePad-Chess-Board-20-with-Black-notation--Made-in-the-USA_p_111.html

OMG, thank you for this.  I was wondering why there were no analysis size flexpad or silicone boards because those are what I would want considering the bag I hold analysis pieces in.  But alas, was always stuck with carrying around a rolled vinyl for it.

A couple of those examples have the A8 square wrong --- should be light, not dark

Update: never mind --- I see Shelby already mentioned this

That was a test. You passed BTW. 

Shelby,

I vote for a 2" mousepad board. It's the perfect size for 3.75" sets with king diameters around 1.5" (1.5"/2.0" = 75%).

I know most of us have probably grown up playing with cheap 3.75" plastic sets on standard 2.25" boards (1.5"/2.25" = 67%), I always thought it looked a little weird with pawns swimming in their squares just to stay afloat.