Piece!

We met up yesterday again to finish off the game pieces. We still had 12 more orange pieces to shape them. Shawn realized that we could have used our dremel tool to finish off the pieces much quicker, instead of filing them down.

 

Shawn also thought of to cut off some of the pieces so that we didn't had to file the pieces much. It was much quicker this way! (Why didn't we think of this earlier?)

Due to the electric power of the dremel tool, some of the pieces cracked during the shaping.

This is my hand after filing off and working with the stones.

Nick brought out a dish of water and polishing paper.

For the defence pieces, we decided to carve out a cross on top to make it like a mini-castle, instead of leaving it rectangular.

Here's what it looks like semi-finished.

Using the dremel tool again, we carved out the outlines and the middle of the board.

Nick sanded off the pencil lines that had the grid.

Shawn, Nick and I were joking about how the game pieces reminded us of "hand-made" candies (jujubes).

We did more of the filing down so that the pieces were approximately the same sizes.

Nick used cooking oil to finish the board.

Tada! The finished product of the board!

I first thought that we should do a king piece to look like a person. Shawn and Nick thought that we should copy the ones that were found. But at the end, we all agreed that a tall tower looking structure best fitted our game board.

 

To be continued...