Source for Quality Game Pieces???

[Mike O.]

I have never frequented this news group before but thought I might
find the information I am looking for.

I am planning to build my own backgammon board. I did this over 20
years ago while in college at the University of Michigan, and left the
board/set with a friend that I always played backgammon with. I want
to create a similar board with the same feel as that first one.

My question is this, can anyone recommend a source for quality game
pieces? If I remember correctly, I obtained the pieces I had in that
first set from a game store at Water Tower Place in Chicago. I find
no game stores there now from their internet listing.

The pieces I had before were about 1-3/4" in diameter and about 3/8"
thick. They were made of a real stone I believe, possibly an onyx.
That is the part I liked the best about them, that they had some heft
to them. A nice, solid feel. The set I had then was red and white.
The red had a marbled appearance. I would like to make this new set
red and white as well.

Does any one know of a source for quality blots like these?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike O.

[brandon]

I make custom stone backgammon pieces.

Contact me at bwi...@efn.org to place custom orders.

Brandon Wiant
Backgammon Stones
bwi...@efn.org

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[Gregg Cattanach]

"Mike O." <mi...@dmwcc.com> wrote in message
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Check with Carol Joy Cole at c...@tir.com . She has some very nice Spanish
Lucite checker sets with finger dips and marbled/pearl appearance. Not
stone, but effectively indestructible, and extremely pretty. Also, here is
her web site: http://homepage.interaccess.com/~chipoint/Boutique.html .

Also, you are doing this the right way by getting the checkers first. Then
you can make the dimensions of the board to fit the checkers perfectly.

Gregg C.