“Pumpkin 1” Puzzle.

Boys and Girls,
 

After the long break, it’s high time for another puzzle… errr? similar to dog years, duck time seems an eternity.
 
Had another log similar to this one, 

lazing about the workshop sucking up sawdust begging to be put out of its misery. 

Cut a flat edge on the bandsaw and trips between the bandsaw and the thicknesser I manager to morph it into 4 (non parallel) flat sides.

Transitioned to the Kapex and started cutting up “cookies”,

amassed 6 for a box,

… OK, I have trouble counting and all the 10 fingers just confuse me.

Prepared a few more 18mm³ out of some sort of darker timber (no idea what) I had laying about,

and prepared for some laser cutting. 
I cut a box set out of MDF that I used for sizing/layout templates over the “cookies” for the laser cut,

 

Before any further work on the box, I made up a set of pieces,

and assembled the MDF box,

 

to test the fit inside the box

Once I was gruntled, 

I was ready to tackle the solid box. 

I always sand and buff the inside of the boxes to provide easier movement within its confines.  The air cups are ideal to hold the small pieces over my upside-down ROS,

without sanding the sides of my thumbs off… something that often happens when pieces are held only by hand because the air cups won’t hold due to either size or too porous for suction.

 

Then it was assembling using CA glue and taking care to ensure the buffed sides were facing inside,

 

an operation I had to repeat due to preparing the wrong side.  Backed by a lengthy period of contemplation,

 

I dry assembled the box and tagged the outside with the masking tape, after realising it was stupid to tag the inside with the tape when it had to be sanded and buffed… hey, during moments of inspirational creations, we don’t always think clearly… and I’m LBD, not Robinson Crusoe.

 

The outside of the box was run through 150G, 180G and 240G on my upside-down sander, followed by a dose of 240G on my upside-down ROS and a buffing and carnauba waxing on all sides but the bottom.

The bottom was then given 2 layers of Aqua Coat,

to fill up any obvious grain voids, before it was engraved with the name and logo and backfilled with a contrasting Timbermate wood filler. The bottom (only) was sanded and buffed,

ready for packaging… that never happened as I only made 1 MDF and 1 solid copies.  

Why only one solid?… I assembled the MDF so I couldn’t use its pieces as sizing templates over the “cookies” and I didn’t think of cutting out a generic sizing template… until just now.  

But don’t yazall lose any sleep over it as the remaining “cookies” were used in another puzzle that is soon to be published… yay!

 

The SketchUp model can be viewed/downloaded from the 3DW,

and click on the A4 PDF solution to download/view.

 

I create my laser jobs in CorelDraw, however, for anyone interested I can make the CorelDraw CDR file available… it can be read/processed by freebie Inkscape to create SVG files to be processed by laser programs like Lightburn.

 

For any 3D printer enthusiast, I could make the STL files available on request… just tell me how you’d like them presented.  

 

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.

Thanks for looking…

 

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