In this video, I make a chess board end table with a removable top, a hidden drawer, and spherical "chess board" feet. A viewer reached out to me and asked if I could make something like this. I'm always happy to make unique, oneofakind items out of wood, so I was up for the challenge.

The chess board is made from walnut and ash. To minimize the potential for wood movement, I glued thin pieces of end grain squares onto both sides of plywood. The playing area is framed with a curly maple border and a walnut frame. The frame also has curly maple edge banding. The mitered corners of the frame are joined with mortise and tenon joinery, and the frame is attached to the board with a tongue and groove joint with the plywood inserting into a groove in the frame.

The front of the "hidden" drawer resembles a table apron, but the drawer pulls out. It is "hidden" because it has no pull handle and does not immediately appear as being a drawer. The drawer front and back are made from ash and the two sides are made from walnut. To continue the chess board theme, the drawer front, back, and sides are joined together using box joints. The contrasting wood colors make the joints appear as chess board squares.

The legs are tapered using a tapering jig that I made in this video:    • How to Make a Tapering Jig for a Tabl...  . I shaped the bottoms of the legs using a rasp to taper them down to a round shape to transition well to the spherical feet.

The spherical feet are made from miniature chess boards that were glued together into a cube and then turned on a lathe. You can watch in more detail how I went about making these chess board feet here:    • Turning chess board spheres  

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Items I used in this project include:
Grizzly G1023RLWX Table Saw https://amzn.to/2AGvqVV
INCRA Miter Gauge: https://amzn.to/2HTzvef
INCRA IBox Jig: https://amzn.to/3QWxq2f
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ArmRSeal Gloss Finish (chess board): https://amzn.to/2FKT7yE
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Music in this video is from Epidemic Sound:
00:36 An Ode to All Mothers Howard HarperBarnes
02:45 Toward a Brighter Day Autumn Cheek
04:28 Strange Cages Martin Klem
06:09 Going Solo Eric Feinberg
07:58 Be There Jonatan Mollberg
09:50 A Breath So Sweet Atlas Kind
11;35 To the Rescue Martin Klem
15:15 Amazed by You Peace Reels
15:09 When Our Time Comes Christian Andersen
17:16 An Inconvenient Affair Indigo Days
18:53 Fine By Me Martin Klem
20:03 Intimate Acoustics Mid Knight
22:04 Svalbard Julyan Brynn
25:23 Awake Megan Wofford
27:43 Impressions of You Gavin Luke
30:33 African Violet Arden Forest
33:35 Impressions of You Gavin Luke (oops!)