Leatherette Coffer Storage Box 3.5" to 4.1" from Royal Chess Mall - Review 

I was thinking the exact same thing about the walled, unpadded coffers!! The one with form-fitting foam is WAY better for protecting your investment! I recently got the French Chavet pieces in antiqued and ebonized boxwood with 3.9 in. (98 mm) kings from Royal Chess Mall India and I couldn't imagine storing those bad boys in anything else!!

Thanks for this, very helpful trying to figure out what box to buy for my first "nice" set of pieces.

In a different video, I liked your idea of a pistol case to offer protection for your chess pieces. You have foam, top and bottom. And if you can find a case big enough, you can get complete protection for your chess pieces. Brilliant.

You always have the best videos,

I am a portrait photographer but learned lighting from the stand point of how light works. The closer the light is to the camera the less shadow and the less texture is revealed. Think draw a circle on a piece of paper, ie it looks flat, like on camera axis light. Take the side of the pencil and shade one side of the circle, like moving the light off camera axis say 45 degrees and you have a bal, it now has shape. Most folks understand that. They understand the larger the modifier, umbrella or soft box, the softer the shadow edge transition. Think hard edge shadows from full sun, soft on cloudy days. But what tells the brain what the item feels like, it's surface efficiency, is the specular highlight (reflection of the light) edge transition. Flash light on shiny car, hard edged specular edge transfer tell us it is super smooth. Same flash light on velour and the spec highlight edge transition is slow and the brain interprets that as more textured. So if they shot one with only a large soft box on camera axis, it may look smooth but moving the light off camera, more form and if a small light is added, it will reveal the texture. All of these are matters of inches when adjusting. A similar chess box came with my Chess bazaar St Petersburg set and it has really large and curved manes on the knights and a point for the kings finial. It looks like they formed the foam to each piece so they fit snugly all the way around, a perfect fit.

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Too bad the one I got from them smelled like gasoline!