Finally finished rolling the last of the stones for this project. I actually started this while I was sick with food poisoning and then Covid this summer. The burning of the lines on the board was very meditative while I couldn't think straight. Once I had it together I coated it in beeswax, cut a little leather strap clasp from an old belt, and rolled stones from polymer clay. I find that the size of these stones and the grid are a bit awkward to play with, small to pick up with clumsy fingers. Now I understand why standard boards have grids and pieces of a certain size, but I'm still very proud of this board as a thing I made for myself.
@berdandy@mstdn.games I've seen smaller plastic folding magnetic sets before but they're not nice. So I made this one kind of half way between the size of those and the normal sized boards to try and still be at least a bit more convenient than a full sized board, so this one has 15mm squares, so folded up it's a little over 30x15cm and 8cm tall.
@ash amazing work! I’ve never seen a folding set (well, except for printed cardboard ones). Mine’s a giant slab and it’s a bit of a pain to transport.