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   -=> August Abolins wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-   
      
    SH>   king or queen in a chess set I'm carving for a freind of   
    AA> Sounds like a nice project.   
      
     He's very hard to buy gifts for.  Still wears clothes from the   
     50's that were his fathers because "What's wrong with them?"   
      
     Since he's a GM chess player I asked him one day if he would   
     like a hand carved set and he said he would.  So I have done   
     a couple test peices out of scrap and the other week started   
     on the pawns.   
      
    AA> Ideally, you might like two keys that you can place back to back   
    AA> (each one cut thinner?  ..or remove the white part from one key   
    AA> and put it on the other?) so that you have the white on two   
    AA> opposite sides for one chess piece?   
      
     That would be perfect.  I'd do the other white peices the way   
     I am with the rest, just one with the ivory as a special touch.   
      
    AA> There was a period of time when I had accumulated hundreds of   
    AA> pounds of magazines and newspapers in just a handful of years.   
    AA> There's probably still even more stuff that I could "release" to   
    AA> the dump.   
      
     I used to read a ton of magazines and paperbacks.  I'm not   
     reading as much as I used to as I forget my glasses and then I   
     have to have the font so large on the kindle that i'm constantly   
     clicking the page. LOL   
      
   Shawn   
      
   ... I've pretended to be me for so long that now I am.   
      
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