I write in the hope of enlisting your support in identifying anyone within your modelling clubs who may be able to help me in the making of two small chess pieces fashioned from copper piping.

The background story to this perhaps unusual request was that some 50 years ago whilst attending evening classes my wife set about making a Chess set from what was then imperial ¾” copper pipe.

Regrettably, the full set was never completed despite her best endeavours and two pieces were never made. These pieces were the Pawn and the King and the photos enclosed show how they should look.

The approximate height of the pieces is:-

The Pawn is 35mm overall in height and the King is 72mm in height.

The purpose of this exercise is to try to complete the set by no later than end of Feb 2017, which will be in time for our Golden Wedding anniversary but some additional work will be required once the two missing pieces are completed.

Once the two pieces are made some, further work will be required such as weighting the pieces in order to get the feel right and some plating work in order to identify the two sets.

I fully understand that imperial size pipe is no longer available and that the two pieces will have to be made from the current metric equivalent but that is not a problem.

I enclose pictures of the two pieces to show how they look and would be happy to provide the existing Pawn and King should that be requested

Please let me know what you think once you have had chance to consider the task in hand

Many thanks and Best Regards

Derek Hart

Edited By Diane Carney on 25/11/2016 17:04:52