Man, I never get tired of watching that 5 axis machine do its thing. I know it's just (relatively simple) math, but when you watch it, it looks like magic every time!

@michaelkoch2109

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Simply great!

@gregorteply9034

Жыл бұрын

If you think it is simple, then hats of to you.

Very impressive. I like the idea of black anodizing, but you might want to do the black pieces in a two-step process, where you anodize them black, then go back and cut some of the top details, so they have some bright aluminum highlights, at least for the capital pieces.

My favorite CNC Machining channel by far.

Peter, you forgot to machine a nice shiny brass chessboard! Would look really nice with those beautiful aluminum pieces.!

Fly thru at end is Very Cool - Thanks

I love the long-look at the end. Beautifully done throughout.

Absolutely beautiful! Well Done.

I am just a rube, and while your super complex industrial machining work is amazing, this chess set and the vises you made are the most entertaining. Perhaps exactly because I'm a rube. You sir are an artist as much as you are a craftsman. Thank you for putting in the time and effort to share this with us.

Hands down the best machinist on youtube. We just bought a shop in Katy with a couple of integrex's. Last week was the first time I was able to go "play" since it's a 4 hour drive from our main shop (Lafayette). Took me half the week to get the posts right. But we're finally slinging iron.

That knight program is slicker than frog shit on a rainy day. Wow.

what a beautiful work!

Those are gorgeous. Bravo!

This is amazing. Nice smooth finish.

Gorgeous. Masterful

I could watch this all day. Amazing.

beautiful.

Absolutely beautiful Peter!!! Well done and thanks.

That's just incredible well done awesome job...

Nice job, Pete!!!

As a machinist , I love it !! It makes me smile 😃

😱That’s one nice!!! Chess set! ❤❤❤

Amazing Peter, that's why I subscribed to your channel, great things here.

Great machine work. If only I knew how to play chess. I like your chess table too.

very nice Peter! Thank you

Awesome work Peter!

Every piece was stunning, yet I especially loved the crowns on the King and Queen. 👍👍😎👍👍

I have been a machinist since 1978. Excellent craftsmanship, especially the knight well done.

This is impressive!!

WOW! Every single video that you produce makes my day better. I am stuck inventing and creating wonderful, tangible inventions for work with no digital readouts or CNC. From circuit boards to machines, I will never fail. You give me a breath of fresh air sir.

Putting the camera on your CMM is an interesting twist too 😀

Beautiful set Peter! Also, great use of the CMM 😅

Hi Peter, As always , masterful machining, you must have had a couple of slack days, lol. But seriously, have you thought of doing a production run of the pieces? I think they would grace any chess players table. As to the board, I would go for marble tiles inset into a mahogany base with brass or bronze dividers.

Beautiful shot with the CMM, then there comes the 200% concentrated operator! Hilarious, made my day. Nice work on the pieces too 😁

I have not left a comment in over a year but this makes me question what spectrum even means.?? amazing and artistic combined with serious technical skill...... the camera work and editing is first in class. wish I had time to watch more. Thanks, Peter

Brilliant idea to use the cmm to make the flyover shot!

@BrotherCreamy

Жыл бұрын

Most expensive motorised dolly

Incredible work. I just finished my 22 x 22" Billet 3d chess board and need to design and make my pieces also, only I wish I had a mill turn like this to work with, I'm stuck with horizontals, indexers and live tool lathes. But anyways, the pieces look amazing I definitely hope mine come out this good.

Absolutely beautiful set/s. I would pay you for 2 x chess pieces/sets since I last commented. The chess boards are delightful but the pieces are low pressure die cast brass! It's a bit late in the day for that, so here's wishing you and yours all the best for the the festive season. Cheers.

I never knew I could want a chess set so badly...

Interesting details on the kings and rooks, with the fluted gem instead of a cross and the extra deep crenellations.

Just in time for Christmas! If you did make a set, what would you charge? Thinking brass and aluminum?

They look like they'd feel really nice in your hand, solid. Also, I really like the way the knights turned out.

@mikedrop4421

11 ай бұрын

We all came here for the knight. Let's be honest

This is art.

Wonderful!

Lol you make it look so easy. I'm trying to make these manually (for most parts at least) and I haven't worked up the courage to try the knight yet 😆

Amazing set peter! the footage at the end was stunning! 3D camera on inspection table?

Very nice!

Nice one 🤗👌

I like the size, I like the tool paths, I like the finish. I just like everything about this :-)

That's some beautiful work! The real question is, how much for a set?

Красиво получилось .Хорошая работа

Awesome 👌

10 sec. in and i love it already

very very good job peter

Knights look great! They can make or break a chess set. Beautiful set. Would you consider selling a few sets?

Wow, that ending reminded me of the scene where Lillian dies in the movie Brainstorm (1983).

And the proper way to play theese is on a granite surface plate! I sugest a checkerboard granite surface plate as a project for Robrenz, Oxtoolco or somebody else accurate enought :) That would be awesome! Anyway, I would suggest going commercial with this - this is one hell of a set! Great work as always.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

I have been thinking about granite. There are many places near me that sell it.

@somebodyelse6673

Жыл бұрын

He could easily use diamond tooling in the horizontal mill to grind pockets into an inexpensive surface plate, epoxy metal plates in place for white squares, and cut the inlays flush to the granite.

Amazing work. Did you draw up all of the pieces yourself or did you find something already done?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

I modeled them myself.

@spazzywhitebelt

Жыл бұрын

Wild stuff, your skills are amazing. I suppose to do the machining work that you do you need to be good at modeling

Next video: "is a Zeiss CMM the most versatile gimbal in the world?" :D Awesome finish right out of the machine and great shots :)

Cool, camera ride with CMM.

Whenever someone asks me what a lathe is used for, I always tell them for making chess pieces. Very nice. I can now send them this video

Little overkill to do on the Mazac, but it gets the job done. I would love to have a set, but I guess its inherently expensive.

Nice camera work.

Nice work. Maybe you could make another set from brass to make two sets of distinguishable kingdoms.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

I started with that thought until I priced out the cost of the brass. Also the bronze Knight I machined (Another video) was quite a bit heavier then the aluminum Knight. So the aluminum would have to be weighted to make them feel the same. I think Brass and 303 stainless could work though. Or 303 stainless steel and steel with a black oxide finish could also.

electroless nickel might be another nice finish for the white pieces in contrast to the black anodise.. nice work in any case

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

I think there is a black nickle plating. But I'm not sure how it's done. Or even if it could be applied on top of a electroless nickel plate on aluminum. What could be done is 303 stainless for white and steel with a black oxide for black. The pieces would be a little heaver, but that would be OK I think.

@Chris-ho2by

Жыл бұрын

I think that the black anodise would look pretty good on the aluminium, I have never used the black nickel, the natural 'satin' finish looks really good (a sort of gunmetal grey). I think with aluminium there might have to be a pre-treatment required as otherwise the nickel might peel, but it can be done. I thought that you were going to do a bronze + silver version having seen your last video.

I hope to be skilled and equipped to do this in my time.

Awesome. You should send one side to get black anodized!

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

One side black one side clear.

@vettepicking

Жыл бұрын

@@EdgePrecision nice!

CMM Flybys, lol. love it

I've made chess pieces on a wood lathe and knights are the hardest😂😂😂 yours are gorgeous👍😎

love to see a cost breakdown if you were to actually comission a machine shop to make a set.

very cool

That's awesome Peter! Assuming you play chess? Happy holidays.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Yes I do.

Beautiful chess set. How do I tell the black pieces from the white?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

They are not finished yet. One set will be black anodized and one clear.

I hope you're making a nice chess board for it.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Yes I will be making a board eventually.

Superb, any plans to weight them?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

No these are large pieces and have a good weight to them.

Great machining video of 5-axis mill turn. Where did you find the models of the pieces or did you design yourself?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

I modeled them myself.

@WorldFormula390ish

Жыл бұрын

@@EdgePrecision interested in selling the models. I would like to make chess sets for my children. Finding models of nice chess pieces has been challenging.

Hi Piter, the chess pieces are very good, congratulations, they are beautiful. My question is what material it is made of and if each piece is heavy and how much is the total weight of the entire set? Oh, and the price, I'm interested, thanks.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

The material is Aluminum. As to weight they are large for chess pieces so they have a good feel to them. Judging from previous comments and my response. The cost is more than most everyone would be willing to pay. There is the material witch cost me $300.00 from Mcmaster Car (They are expensive this could be less). Then the machining time. I think it could be done in a day and a half (Maybe). It took longer then this because I was recording video. So lets say 15 hours. At my even lowest shop rate of $150 per hour. That would be $2,250.00. Now add finish (To be determined) let me guess anodizing say a minimum of $150.00. We are up to $2,700 without packing (This would have to be done carefully) and shipping to whatever location. So unless you are very serious about chess, I don't think there are many people willing to spend that kind of money. Thanks!

Beautiful. Anodizing or plating next?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Anodizing, after a little deburr in some areas.

@mannycalavera121

Жыл бұрын

@@EdgePrecision I don't suppose you would upload the solid files to GrabCAD? I have a length of 316 and Bronze here, i'd love to use this design.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

@@mannycalavera121 Send me a email and I will send them to you at peter.edge.pre@gmail.com

@mannycalavera121

Жыл бұрын

@@EdgePrecision Done, Thanks. :)

Nice job! Which brand is your CNC machine?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

This is a Mazak Integrex e650 machine.

@Edge Precision Peter, have you considered making the board out of aluminum squares? -- Half anodized black, and half anodized clear? Then a clever "interlock" feature so it could be "assembled" and fixed in place? Just thinking out loud.... 😀

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Yes it could. I do have some ideas on this.

@somebodyelse6673

Жыл бұрын

The board + base, could actually be the storage box for the pieces. Unfold the box, there's the board.

So nice have you got auto stock feed on this lathe, and how did you do the camera work at the end it was great cheers.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

No this machine doesn’t have any auto stock feed.

@co0ter1

Жыл бұрын

The Pawns must have been tedious, I'm guessing these are somebody's Christmas present.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

@@co0ter1 No this isn’t a Christmas present.

Hi Peter! Thats a superb quality on the pieces! I am just a bit suprised that you used aluminium and no fancy superalloy :)

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

I did price out some other materials. I just wasn't willing to spend $7-800 dollars on material.

@Brrraaack

Жыл бұрын

@@EdgePrecision Ok, that I would have estimated way lower. Maybe atleast 2 inconel quueens? :)

@somebodyelse6673

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the budget was spent on carbide squares for the black spaces on the board? 😀

Beautiful pieces. Evidently the boss does not have you in check! 😅

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

What boss are you referring to?

@seimela

Жыл бұрын

@@EdgePrecision I thought I meant that is true that you're your own boss

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

@@seimela yes that’s correct.

@BrianEltherington

Жыл бұрын

@@EdgePrecision Exactly. Great thing about being self employed is you need only work a half day and you even get to pick which 12 hours.

wow amazing!!! i want to cut same chess part!! can i get you chess drawing or 2d or 3d cad model??? thank you so much

I ate bacon, eggs scrambled, and a pancake with syrup.

AWESOME work...now make a board next...so cool. Since you got them sell the G-Code file

@mtnbikeman85

Жыл бұрын

Cant see there being much market. Not sure how many people have an integrex and the same tooling as he does, plus spare time on the machine to do this that also couldn't program it themselves.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Yes the code would only work on this machine.

Hi Peter footage looks great, still using the gopro? Have you considered DJI osmo action as a replacement? I'd like to capture footage of my machine sometime like you have and you told me the gopros phased out a feature allowing preview over wifi while recording, I thought perhaps the DJI might be a good option for me. Thanks. (edit - watched another review from "Jake Sloan" on the DJI osmo action 3 apparently it suffers from poor up close focus this might be a deal killer inside a cnc machine)

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

I do have a DJI camera it’s not the latest one. I had a lot of trouble with the camera overheating. But it doesn’t fit into my special case. I use a GoPro Hero 7 black mostly for that reason. In the machine. Lately out of the machine I have been using the Insta 360 X3. The shots on the CMM in this video were done with it.

(Hard?) Anodize black and clear sounds excellent!

For a board made of wood, maple and mahogany usually go together well. As far as metal, something heat treated and not?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

How about maple and ebony or rosewood?

@RALL123456

Жыл бұрын

@@EdgePrecision ebony is sold per gram, where i live at least.. there is no shame in veneer, if you can get your hands on it. A white maple would look great. I fear wood with a red/yellow hue would color the "white" pieces as they are so refective, as opposed to the anodized black pieces. I would advise a hard wax with plenty of UV protection (additive). Wax bc that can be conditioned later, but a epoxy lacquer might be a good option too. The ebony is one of the hardest wood out there but even that would get scratches from aluminiumoxide. The set looks great already, such a nice finish too. Will be looking out for a vid on the board :)

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

@@RALL123456 But I already have some ebony and East Indian rosewood. I just need to see if I have enough of one or the other.

OUTSTANDING!!!!! bye the way I do play chess.....lol

Where is the order link? 😁

You need to make one side black...parkerizing or bluing?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Black anodize for black and clear for white.

So did you checked them if the dimensions are in tolerance? :)

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Yes they are!

@giorgiocanal1659

Жыл бұрын

underrated comment... :)

Weird question what if order this set how much would i pay? Would be a expensive chess set i think

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

I don't really know an exact value. But it would be in the thousands of dollars. Or even more if I were to use materials like some have suggested like brass or bronze. Would that be something you would be interested in?

Any chance you would be willing to drop your TNG files for those pieces? Or just the solid models for them?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the Esprit TNG files? If so I'm mot sure you could use them unless you have the same machine configuration. But the solid models I use for Esprit are .stp files usually. These could be imported to any cad or cam software. All these parts could be machined on a lathe. Then moved to a mill with a 4th axis with a few alterations in the machining strategies. By surfacing some of the 5 axis cuts and angle areas. On the Rook, Knight and King this would be required. The Kings crown would not be exactly the same but it would be very close. I could send you the step files. Send me a email at peter.edge.pre@gmail.com put in the description Chess part models so I don't delete it.

I was wondering if you prefer mazatrol over your cam software for intermediate difficulty jobs?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

The only time I use Mazatrol is to bore soft jaws. Otherwise I never use it.

@brentschmitt3338

Жыл бұрын

@@EdgePrecision I thought the T+/M+ were fine. Then they went to the windows format.

@brentschmitt3338

Жыл бұрын

Gibbs CAM?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

@@brentschmitt3338 Esprit TNG.

how much dose one of those camera dollys cost?

Do you sell chess sets like this? I've been looking for a machined set exactly like this. How much would it cost to have a set made?

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

I haven't calculated a price. It would be in the area of at least above $2000.00. And that would not include a board. So I really don't think many people would want to pay that kind of money.

@travisroberts6630

Жыл бұрын

OK thanks. I didn't realize it could cost that much.

And now anodize.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Yes but first I need to to a little pre finishing in certain areas. Everything shows thru anodizing.

How much for a set? I assume you will color them.

@EdgePrecision

Жыл бұрын

Yes they will be anodized black and clear. As to the cost. If you read some of my other responses. I have already answered this many times.

I'm down . How much for a set . Will to pay upfront