Dr. Dittmar Germany
Chess set with drawer and horn pieces
Chess set with drawer and horn pieces
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A handmade luxury chess set with a mahogany frame, a wenge and maple playing surface, and pieces made of water buffalo and Watusi cattle horn. A drawer integrated into the frame provides safe storage for the pieces, which are modeled after French originals.
King's Chess Material and Manufacturing
True-to-original handcrafted figures based on French models
of the late 19th century.
THE MATERIAL
It all starts with raw horn. Real horn can only be
Handcrafted, as each horn is different.
The tip and base of the horn are not usable.
Tip is too thin and the base of the horn is hollow.
Only the middle part of the horn can be used for making figures
be used.
THE CHESS PIECES
The turning work by hand requires great
craftsmanship. Differences in shape
The figures should not have any of these.
What is important is the pressure with which the tool is applied to the
rotating workpiece: excessive pressure heats up
the horn, it is out of shape and is no longer
To move the 32 pieces of a chess game
The master needs about 5 hours to make it.
THE FRAMEWORK
...is made of Indian mahogany. The wood
must be stored for at least 12 months,
before it is processed. The frame is a
small piece of furniture. The carpenter saws all up to 16
parts of the chessboard frame by hand, polishes them, adds
them together and polish them again.
THE CHESSBOARD
32 individual fields of light maple and 32 fields of
Almost black wenge forms the battlefield. The tiles
are individually sawn, sanded, polished several times and then carefully
inserted into the frame by hand.
The outer dimensions of the frame of the chess set are approximately 43 x 43 cm.
The king (the highest piece) is 8.5 cm tall, a pawn measures about 4 cm.
