Snakenstein Puzzle Box

This was a fun one of a kind.

Nothing quite like finding an already beautiful box to retrofit!  I think everyone recognizes this box as likely being made in India or Indonesia, either way I was stoked!

I have been building puzzle boxes for about 15 years now and over the years you tend to collect a lot of extra parts that get produced as a safety net, but now what?

I thought it would be fun to include pre-existing parts from 15 past projects to make one new puzzle, I called it Snakenstein!

I included a few pics because it is just too busy to really see what is going on, and its just fun to look at.

A particular challenge here is to hide the key in a cool way, which after a few careful moves will allow the key to pop out the bottom.  You would like to hope it was that easy, but nope, all the dials, knobs, levers all do something, and in some case it takes the action of more then one actuator to make the effect.  In a small space under the base you might be able to make out a tiny key peeking out, ya, that one is the distractor, lol.

I am not evil, I swear people actually like this kind of thing, lol.

Thanks for looking guys!