The chess set started from a challenge to make a full recognisable set of players from a lathe only. In real terms the knight and the rook are a compromise and the bishop doesn't have his customary slash.

I tried to push the material to its limits by making the pieces as filigree as possible if your tooling isn't sharp you may need to reduce the feed rates.

At Boxford we have an Integerex 200 (Video shown here), this allows what were many machine operations over numerous machines to one machine from bill it to finished in one machine.