Make a Shogi Set in About an Hour Using Recycled Materials

I will be showing you how I made a Shogi set out of recycled cardboard. This was a gift for a good friend of mine for Christmas.


**Rules of Shogi can be found at: http://www.genedavissoftware.com/rules/  

Materials needed:

-Cardboard (at least 9.5x9.5 inch, or whatever size you want)
-scissors (To cut cardboard and index cards. I used pocket knives)
-Pencil
-Ruler
-Glue (Glue stick works perfectly.)
Optional Materials:

-Markers

Cut out the board from the cardboard piece. I measured mine at 9.5x9.5 inches, to leave about 1/2 inch of edge. You can cut this to whatever dimensions you like, as long as you can divide it by 9.

pretty self explanatory. Measure out your side lengths (The sides of mine are 9 inches each, to make 1 square inch boxes) and then draw the lines to

This is optional, but suggested in order to make the board look better. At the very least you should take pencil and color in every other square..

I used the templates for the pieces that were included at the Gene Davis Software website, which I will include as PDFs, to make my pieces. I cut cardboard to the appropriate size and then glued the templates on.