A few years back I made a couple of chess sets on the cnc machine at work, out of aluminium.
I'm thinking of having a go at making some wooden sets to go with the boards I make - probably maple, walnut, possibly rosewood.
The only tooling we use is carbide, and the smallest r/h knife tool I have has VNMG style tips with 0.4mm tip radius
The lathe will spin up to about 3500rpm.
Any ideas on the best way to approach this? Ultra shallow cuts and massive rpm? Grind some HSS? Don't try?
This is the one I made in ali. It'll need some redesigning for wood, especially the king.