Islamic Style Rook Chess Piece

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I'm thinking about making a chess set and this is my first design of a chess piece. It is 2.5 inches which is too big for my chess board, but it will make a nice conversation piece. It took 46 minutes for my Makerbot Thing-O-Matic with MK7 and 1.75 mm black plastic (no rafting). Wipe that Heated Build Platform with rubbing alcohol to get a great stick and no curling!!! Instructions I created this in Google Sketchup 8. I used a very helpful plugin to create this piece: Curviloft by Fredo6 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=28586. It is an amazing plugin that makes it so easy to create objects with curves! Definitely check it out. You can't really see it in the photos, but the angle under the square is a bit too severe so I got a little bit of strands hanging off, but easy enough to sand down. I will also have to sand the spire points. I will upload better pictures soon.