As I'm working as an intern in a little workshop that prints and binds calendars and presses many different things from many different materials I got an opportunity to use a silk press to print some leather gobans for the go club I plan to set up. Now all I need is some stones.
I used Inkscape to create
the print (hint: use Inkscape to view it!) on the leather board, you can download the design and freely use it with your own goban. I printed the board on six transparencies, that I taped together and used as a film to develop a template for the silk press. I was originally going for six goban, but ended up with ten of them.
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| The leather before being cut. This wasn't the only one. |
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| This was the template used to create the prints on the boards. |
The finished boards look actually very nice. Leather is pretty good material for creating something like a portable goban. I'll need to take a picture of one in daylight so it captures the whole beauty of them. Here's one I took with my phone when they were out from print and drying up:
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| The finished boards. The polka dots really cheer them up. |
Actually, these are not the first boards I have made, I also did some smaller practice boards few months ago from plywood,
laser printed paper gobans, glue and water.
See you later! ^^ /gg
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... You got linked from reddit. And now that you have, I must ask. Can I buy one? I'd like a nice roll-up Goban that I can keep in my bookbag, and just whip out whenever I want.
ReplyDeleteI actually did the "shameless" linking myself since I thought I wanted to share my modest accomplishment with others. =)
ReplyDeleteHmm. Selling them, I might be interested, but I decided I don't want to sell them just yet, because I'm in the middle of designing something in the line of stone bowls, in leather. If I succeed with those I may sell one or two boards along with the "bowls".
I wanted to also make a bag for them all, but I fear I don't have too much time left as a trainee and using their facilities and tools. I'd like to continue working there though. I wonder if the boss would get interested if I presented my game board ideas to him. ^^
If you ever plan to sell them, even if just as craft, I'd be interested in a quote. Send over a message to vincent.gau@gmail.com
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