Modernist Chess Set - Final Verson (?)

The complete set in play. 

"It's always the knight, isn't it?" 

The knight is the hardest piece to design, so that is where I started.  Here's mine. In every image, the brown is the keeper and the white is the discarded first trial.

The new version is thinner and simpler than the first cut.  It takes after Berliner and Man Ray more than Staunton.

My pawn redo:

Now for the rest of the pieces, starting with the rook and ending with the king. Like the pawn, I went for a more robust look and feel.

The bishops appear identical.  All the changes are internal.

The bases are hollow with a rim around the opening, all the better to put in a do it yourself weight.  Perhaps BBs or metal washers stuck in with glue or silicone cement. I'll be searching for felt to make padding.  I regard weighting and felt pads necessary.

The pieces are hollow to reduce top hamper, and to reduce production time and materials.  All the walls are 3 mm thick or more to make the pieces robust.

New Pawn

The brown pawn is new.  I like it better.  The first pawn looked too spindly for my taste.  The rook has a scrawny neck too - a job for another day.

The Bishop The bishop's height will be 70 mm, with base to height ratio = 48%. All the pieces (except the king) will have 32 mm bases. That's just the way I roll.

The Rook

The rook will be the same height as the knight, 64 mm. I've never liked diminutive rooks. Why should the second most powerful piece be hardly larger than a pawn? All the pieces (except the king) will have 32 mm bases -- again, because I like them robust.

Queen Is Done

The queen is simplicity itself.  On to the bishop and rook.