“Stefka Flop” Packing Puzzle.

Boys and Girls,
 
With me posting packing puzzles lately, it’s getting more and more difficult to avoid my nemesis of short narratives, but I sympathise with all you people forced into reading and being fed an iteration of detail all the time.

Nevertheless, part of me has a thick Hyde,

and have cussed sworn to continue my quest.

 

Another puzzle I was determined to make out of solids, however, being a 

I started by making a prototype out of laser cut 6mm MDF.  After glue up it was time to test my cheat sheet,

   

and after much intrepidation, it was assembled/solved, 

For anyone interested... and those not, be bored... this puzzle has a degree of difficulty rated at 9 out of 10 due to all the internal rotations required for the solution.
For all yazall still perplexed, it’s not the shape of the puzzle that makes a difference, but the engraving on the bottom, 

or maybe the non-dowel aligned pieces,

however, rest assured they are diversified enough to trick most… though I wasn’t prepared to offload all the 7 different pieces out of its box, to confirm the difference… at least not so early in this narrative.

 

With the success of the MDF, I mustered up enough courage,

to tackle solids for the box. Again I chose a piece of BOOMBY, 

and with my laser cut MDF templates, used to configure my mitre saw,

resulting in a comfortable box,

 

Pieces made from glue ups out of 18mm³ bits of timer as per my Sketchup design,

The rest progresses as per my countless other BS post, with the exception of different shapes (gotta stick to my story).

 

Fortunately with the straight cuts (leading to just squares and rectangles), this is another puzzle that alludes to solids using conventional tool, however, I will call your bluff making the cubes,

 

Another puzzle and another handful of shekels I could have made… short of choosing to be a cheap skate and not charging people for my goods…  I have been told that s'taht esra tuoba, that stinks, but my olfactory organs are near my mub.

 

Petty as it might be, here is the 3DW model,

and the A4 PDF solution. 

 

Anyone interested in my puzzles (or other authors’), you can see them all here in my “Puzzle Collection” .

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.

 

 

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