puzzle links

[Arc Light]

I like your idea, but before I start making puzzles in numbers I need to buy a table saw.  In the meantime I have been busy designing a puzzlebox for the competion, now all I need to do is figure out how the heck to build it 

I did see something neat at the Hamilton wood show that I thought you would like.  It was a small kit that would turn a hand held drill into a mini lathe.  The drill power the thing and you could set it all up on one of those portalable work tables.  I was tempted at the miniscule price of $79.00 Canadian. They were turning chair legs on it, and it was pretty cool.

[Canuck]

Yeah really for turning pens a small lathe is ample, but you'd laugh at my set up, it's a 14"x 37" monster of a lathe, kind'a funny when all I turn is pens and the occasional puzzle   Also my Taig lathe is the smallest lathe you'll ever see but it'll turn anything!  So I guess most of the tablesaws you looked at were too expensive?  I run a Jet and aside from a problem with the trunion mechanism a few years ago it's been really good and I think they run about $700 Canadian. 

[Arc Light]

My eye is currently on a Ridgid 3660.  I believe Scott has the 3650 and his work is top notch, I believe the 3660 is the newer model with a few minor updates.  Home Depot sells it for 599, but I hear they often go on sale for 469, so I am keeping an eye on them,  I'm also waiting until it's not so damn cold out in the garage.  Don't want to get a new toy and not be able to play with it 

[Canuck]

Oh it's not the equipment that makes the work top notch, grasshopper...just kidding, but really I think Scott could likely put anybody's work to shame just using a hack saw, his accuracy is astounding

I like the ridgid lineup, I have a belt sander that I've been using forever...and you know how much I use a sander with puzzlemaking!  Got yourself a good deal at that sale price....when you get it

[btboone]

Here's a favorite site of mine: http://www.bathsheba.com/   They are not all puzzles, but she shows what is possible with geometry.

[Canuck]

Thanks for that link Bruce   It completely slipped my mind, lots to see....it's all so very distracting...how do we get anything done

[gibell]

Check out the new "Poison Oak Box" made by Tom Jolly back at Cubic Dissection:

http://www.cubicdissection.com/forum/index.php?topic=553.msg5484

I am itching to try it!

[Canuck]

George do you mind posting the pics...I can view the post as a guest but can't see the photos  

[Canuck]

Tom sent me this pic...thanks Tom

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[gibell]

Thanks, Tom.  I wasn't comfortable "grabbing" the photos.  Nice P.O. Box!

[rolly_wood]

Here's a favorite site of mine: http://www.bathsheba.com/   They are not all puzzles, but she shows what is possible with geometry.

I fully subsribe to this. She is one of my preferred artists (together with George Hart, Rinus Roelofs and many other mathematicians)
http://www.bridgesmathart.org/

PS George, why this hip in your avatar?  Perhaps because the femoral neck can be modeled by an hyp...erboloid? 



PPS I have a nice video also of a collapsable hyperboloid.. will post it too. It is not a puzzle but it is funny

[gibell]

PS George, why this hip in your avatar?

This is my hip pre-surgery.  After resurfacing it is now an artificial joint.  No particular reason, my hip has run my life for the past year, but now it is feeling great!

It shows I am hip!!   

Here is an interesting link:
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/projects/voronoi/