Snuck into the workshop looking for the Joe Blake… armed with my snake hook, I looked it directly in the eye,
As it showed no threat, and I found out there wasn’t a real snake(s) in the box, but after a few vinos, the roughly “S” shape of the packing pieces,
resembled snakes, hence the name… hey, not my tag.
Being No.1, I called upon my Raya Box principle, I designed the box with an interchangeable Perspex top,
If you haven’t seen it before, check out some of my other puzzle projects as this followed the same bouncing ball,
to the reverse engineering from,
to the glue up,
to finish
Chronologically, this would place me about 3 months ago (August), on the cusp of me considering the non-MDF version of my JB4A Puzzle. Fast track to a few days ago and some of the sweet comment cajoled me into attempting a similar feat (metric spelling) for this puzzle.
First step was to determine the size of the pieces’ cubes and the material to cut it from. I had some left over 19mm thick merbau decking with ribbing on one of the surfaces that needed to be removed. It finished up 15mm thick which consolidated the cube to be 15mm DAR.
and after cutting 40 (required 32 for the puzzle) cubes, 2 different configurations,
with one being the mirror image of the other, made up the 8 pieces (4 cubes per piece),
Having determined the size of the pieces, it was off to SketchUp to resize the box. I chose to increase the thickness of the box from 3mm MDF to 6mm “solid”,
the Perspex top also had to be redesigned as well as resized,
Being cheap (actually lack of resources), I stripped some pine down to 6mm thick,
and cut the box,
the Perspex,
peeled off the protective layer,
smooth edges…
Buffed up the inside of the box before assembly,
to provide less friction while moving the pieces around inside the box. Fortunately CA is not intimidated by buffing wax.
Assembled the box,
and readied for a trial dry run,
Did an assemble outside the box,
and with the help of the solution, packed it up,
Happy with the fit, it was time to buff the outside of the box and the pieces,
You probably can see it, but the buffing really made the pieces pop.
Another box,
to be filed,
Just realised ,the best thing about puzzles made out of solids is that when you can’t solve it you can claim wood movement/expansion.
3DW of the 12mm MDF model with scene by scene solution,
That's why I would never publish a puzzle without the solution...
Armed with the solution anyone can make one and have bragging rights to being better than the bunny they gave it to. Just a case being "One Up" (upmanship)!
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
Nice puzzle LBD, after I complete the projects requested of me & I have time, I'm gonna give this a go. Thanks for the solution PDF, that'll save a lot of hair pulling.
My laser (30W) cuts the plexi crystal clear. The protective film when removed, takes any char marks with it, though its usually soot and can be wiped off... if not a quick buff will remove it... whenever my tape measure lies and the plexi finished up a tad bigger, a quick sand/scrape/rasp will fix it before a buff... if I succeed in cutting it too short, I usually have little alternative to re-cutting a new piece... preferably after I change dimensions... may seem a moot statement, but I've re-cut it many times before saving the changes.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
987Ron commented 1 day ago Ultimate Puzzle Part? Dump all the box type puzzle pieces in a big bin, stir them up, now solve those puzzles. Confusing?
Won't hold up for puzzles where all the pieces are the same... but at a moment of vindictiveness, I have handed out puzzles with an incorrect part swapped out exchanged... The Raya Box No.?are perfect candidates.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
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