Hi, I’m new here and I’m having a little trouble making the titan chess set rook, I have all the others complete but I cant seem to get the bricks to look right on the rook can anyone help stear me wrong?
this is where im at
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Sorry I moved this post to the Academy Projects area. Are you by any chance following along with the tutorial?
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sorry i had it in the wrong spot. I was not using the tutorial I guess I missed it…I made the hole chess set just off the drawings …that video made everything so much easier thank you!
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Great I’m glad you found the tutorial useful . 
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That is so cool you worked off of the print to make them!
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thanks! it took like 20 hours … im really slow…now i need to get some time on the new puma laythe
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Any suggestions on making the Chess Set with only a 3-axis Haas TM1-P? My students have suggested standing the parts up in the vise and going round and round with something like a single point threadmill, Laying them down flat in a vise and doing a top half and then bottom half (front/back) kind of thing or, my favorite, chucking the parts up in a tool holder in the spindle and clamping a lathe tool in the vise for a kind-of reverse-VTL approach. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks!
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I have not yet started that project with my students, probably a 2nd year project. Since I do not have a 4th axis for my Haas mills, I plan on using our 5C collet holders and just flip them in the mill vise. We will clamp on the base of the chess pieces after doing the lathe work and then do the mill work. 
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Ya I think you will need to brake it up into several operations , turn the round stuff on the lathe then do the rest on a mill with a collet block as Stephen suggested , or perhaps a manual indexer would work well if you have access to one.
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The 5C setup is something we have that the students haven’t even mentioned in their ideas about how to do this, yet. I’ve challenged them to find a way to do the set with only a 3-axis mill. I’m of the “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” kind of mindset on this. We have manual lathes and mills and 1 small Haas 3-axis VMC. The knight has been our biggest stumper, so far. But then, we want all the pieces to look like they came from the same chess set, so we’re stuck figuring out the knight before we go forward with anything. I want to use my new Mitee-Bite clamps that I won from David Bishop in some way on this, but I’ve never used them before and don’t want to throw too many variables into the mix at one time. If and when we figure it all out, I’ll put up what we come up with. I’ve also challenged the kids to make something that we can upload to GrabCad. They’re pretty excited about that!
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You can do every piece of the set in 2 OPs in a Lathe with Live Tooling. Just set your CAM up in Mill/Turn, write your program accordingly, and everything else will come out in post.
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