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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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