Now I'm thinking that a drawstring bag like that, with a Volcano board embroidered on it might be an ideal way to transport a Volcano set. Especially if it were embroidered thickly enough that the ridges held the pieces in some sort of place. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Roger Burton West <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:29:26AM -0500, Tim Seiger wrote: > >>Do you have pictures of your bag? > > I do now: > > http://firedrake.org/roger/icehouse/ > > (The scale is in inches.) > >>I had thought about building a >>chessboard into mine, but it seemed like it would make it huge. > > My original plan was to have a bag that would open out flat, and have a > chessboard on its inner surface. But I wanted the squares to be big > enough to take a large pyramid lying down, and the bag itself would have > had to be truly massive, so the board ended up being a separate unit > that gets stuffed into the bag with everything else. > > (Some day I'll make up six of Eeyore's non-rectilinear 4x4 boards in the > same style.) > > Roger > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse > -- Sam Zitin Director of Information Management Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity Office:317-876-1913 Cell: 317-710-0925