The mismatched go set has really taken on a life of its own now, somehow transcending what I originally had in mind. I have become entranced with the idea of chaotic, mismatched go sets and have started gathering materials to create a series of sets that have all kinds of crazy, weird stones and stone substitutes. You can see in the image the stone candidates I have already collected. There are also ishi press jungstones, ceramic single convex, size 31 shell and slate and thin Japanese glass stones that have been kept separate as I am also going to laser etch some of these with characters and am planning to use a resin 3D printer to create some more unusual stone shapes and figures. When there are more stones than a full set, I will start playing with them and editing until it feels right.
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