Neptune Puzzle.

Boys and Girls,
 
I didn’t particularly wanna post this puzzle, but I’ll besmirch my name if I post 2 non-puzzle projects in a row.

 

Damn it all, I think Pottzy has spiked my tea vino as I didn’t take any happy snaps of this puzzle and my narrative may be embarrassingly short with little forensic evidence to back it up.

However, if Midas can turn stone to gold and JC water to vino (my hero), I can slap in some obtuse sentence filling prose to compose a manuscript befitting my traditional verbal diarrhoea.

  

After exhausting my Raya Boxes (recently posted and yet to be published Snake PitS… note the plural Pottzy), I came across this puzzle designed by Osanori Yamamoto and tagged Neptune. 

I wish there were more Fe$tool tools I don’t already have/need, as the price tag of this puzzle on Etsy, for $85.22(Aus). looked inviting to bolster my piggy bank account.

 

Using the above advertising brochure, made up the following model in SketchUp.

 

which progressed through the mill of Layout (part of SketchUp Pro) → CoreDraw → laser software → cold winter nights and office desktop assembly, the following came into being,

It’s been sitting in my cabinet for nearly two months, fortunately being rated at difficulty level 7, it didn’t take that long to disassemble for the photo shoot… though I had to peek at the solution for the re-assembly.

 

As with my other packing puzzles, the “box” was laser cut out of 3mm MDF and CA glued using a broad finger joint concept (anyone know the name?) and the pieces cut out of 6mm MDF and toothpick aligned to make up the layered shape.

 

The box was engraved with my ugly logo and the puzzle’s name during the cutting process,

Cut lines are colour co-ordinated in CorelDraw to control cut sequence.

The logo and name were ebony (Timbermate backfilled & sanded) x2 and buffed using my Beall buffers (Tripoli and White Diamond)… after assembly with CA, the assembled box was buffed with carnauba wax.

 

The more of these puzzles I make, the more I keep thinking I should scale them up 50% to make solution handling easier… 

A pair of long nosed pliers (tweezers were too small) came in handy

 

to manipulate some recalcitrant pieces inside the box that kept zigging instead of zagging and my fingers were too fat to get in there and spank them.

Then I realise the bigger they are the bigger space they’ll occupy in my cabinet and accelerating the need for a new one…

Then I consider I give them away, why the hell should I burden myself with a new cabinet… after all I only need to solve them once for my project prattle.

 

Knew I could drag this out, so to compensate for the lack of happy snaps, I’ll close this with my 3DW model for anyone interested,

and the A4 PDF solution.

   

Another great stocking stuffer… and with all the laser/CNC owners out there Y???

 

 

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