I know a lot of you think I have gone around the twist with my puzzle phobia and duplicate posting puzzles to get up peoples’ craw. You may be right, however it’s more like shit for brains,
as this puzzle initially fooled even me when I looked more closely and realised it is different to the Wooden Knot Puzzle I posted a while back.
Puzzles have the ability to bite even me on the bum.
The puzzle may be dated back to the days when I still used my dowel alignment technique for laminating 6mm MDF laser cut pieces… had my breakfast
and decided to post it, nevertheless.
As I was printing a copy of it, my laser’s filter threw a wobbly. The recently replaced turbine kept stopping, having me depend on a Ryobi vac for backup,
While I gritted my teeth about a motor replacement cost, the $720 service fee is a tad hard to swallow… 6 hours, 2 way travel, at $120/H… which may be another burden with a replacement visit… the motor should be covered by warranty, however, the service call [ probably isn’t ] wasn’t.
Nevertheless, as I had to run jobs while trouble shooting with the laser techos over the phone, I managed to print off a few extra copies,
for unplanned Christmas distributions.
While the lazer is dead on accurate, the Chinese MDF production line is far from it. The small puzzles have little issue, however, laminating 3 layers of 6mm MDF to make up the larger puzzles did. When a layer of MDF is 6.06mm thick,
a 3 layer lamination has issues going through an 18mm gap,
Getting more use of my inverted Fe$tool belt sander,
and finished off on the upside down ROS,
(love my Mirka, but crappy sandpaper)… lining up holes on non-Abranet mesh is a PITA.
Though it might have been a tad easier to drum sand a sheet of MDF to <6mm thickness… must be that brain in my palm… these were cut from naked, un-dressed sheets,
The model can be viewed/downloaded from the 3DW here,
For anyone interested and not into SketchUp, you might need to brush up on your math’s times table… Using any chosen thickness (“X”) to design lay out and cut the three pieces using that base measurement for each quadrilateral (“cube”),
(the two right pieces should be exactly the same if you cut them correctly).
Just as I was about to publish this I found that I did post this puzzle on LJ and laid a lot of my puzzle mania blame on C125 (as opposed to the other pandemic, C19), however, I’ll spare yazall the anguish of me transposing/appending that prattle here.
I will add that puzzles even get the best of me as I pointed out in the LJ article, when that the flush cut saw took its vengeance out on my fingers after the blade slipped (a few times) on the follow through,
Bloody thing is sharper than a chisel and hurts more than a paper cut (and people wonder why I don't read those cutting articles).
If interested in any of mine (LBD), measurements can be made available on request for anyone not familiar with SketchUp… though a working knowledge of SketchUp’s navigation (as opposed to its design/use features) and access to 3DW could be of benefit.
All the solutions to my puzzles can be found at this link... *** Measurements and further details can be provided on request. *** Christmas is coming and puzzles make a great stocking stuffer... for all ages. Kids love ‘em and most of us are still kids.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
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