So you want to make puzzle boxes

[MBD]

Well, here are some links for you

http://www.hartiganhomes.com/pics/University/metal%20casting%20301/puzzle%20box%20locked.jpg

Article about some guy named Kagen Schaefer http://bvk.nu:8080/gallery/v/general/KS/

http://nauka.relis.ru/53/0412/53412142.htm

Article about Perry's puzzling stuff http://www.incra.com/product_perryzone_puzzled.htm
http://www.woodstore.net/perfectpuzzler.html  From Perry McDaniel
http://www.incrementaltools.com/Free_Plan_s/149.htm

Puzzle box dissected
http://brturn.googlepages.com/puzzleboxdissection

Bruce Viney
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bruce.viney/index.html

Make a safe?
http://www.finescrollsaw.com/security-box.htm

Secret Spaces?
http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/SkillsAndTechniques/SkillsAndTechniquesArticle.aspx?id=26008
http://www.greatstuff.com/custom.html

Gallery of finished products
Some photos of Japanese puzzle boxes
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/seibatsu/Trickbox/?mediafilter=images
http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=ja_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.puzzlein.com%2fmuseum%2ftakeapart%2ftakeapart.html
http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=ja_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.puzzlein.com%2fmuseum%2fmuseum.htm
http://www.cubicdissection.com/html/puzcol/puzcolindex.html

Extreme puzzle boxes
http://karakuriya.com/english/chest/shikake.htm
http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Precision-Jewelry-Mystery-Puzzle-Box-Treasure_W0QQitemZ270322224279QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item270322224279&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1308
http://japancraft.blogspot.com/2006/12/marquetry-lesson-by-haruo-uchiyama.html

Anybody know anything about"
http://www.bamboola.com.tw/index.html I believe they sell some bamboo puzzle boxes, but can't find them on their website


For you pen guys
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6374391
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5341744
http://www.gisiwriting.com/page/page/1858900.htm

[Canuck]

Yikes...that's quite the list   Thanks Matt

[Roby]

See, what did I tell you guys about the greese that keeps the puzzle world moving.  Uhhh, I will have to take some time going through all those links.

[Arc Light]

Wow! just when I thought I have seen all there is to see about puzzles on the Web along comes Matt with his great link list.  Thanks Matt I'm off to do some surfing! 

[MBD]

After about 14 years Perry McDaniel (a Texan of course) has made about 4580+ puzzle boxes.
Perry has made over the last 14.4 years represent about 20 Sandfield/McDaniel collaborative designs executed in 200 piece limited edition production runs, Perry has designed another 20 unique boxes produced in smaller quantities.

After about 10 years Robert Yarger (Roby Charles) (Stickman) (resident of Oklahoma) has made about 630-750 puzzle boxes.
Robert has made about 18 Stickman boxes, 3 unique locking boxes, and a unique "Kumiki" Elephant.

After about 4 years, Matthew Dawson (another Texan) got an unsuspecting Pennsylvanian to make him 25 boxes for his MakDaw # 1 box.

Maybe Robert should buy some of those Incra Machines   

It is not quantity, but quality... right Robert?

[Arc Light]

I would love to see your MakDaw # 1 box. Any sneak peeks 

[MBD]

All in good time  ... Lets hope they do not get lost in the mail, but it should be hard to misplace something weighing 15+ pounds
 

[MBD]

After about 8 years Robert Yarger (....

[MBD]

http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/seibatsu/Trickbox/?action=view&current=Apricot.jpg
I think the Apricot Box by Akio Kamei is the most expensive puzzle box in the world in as much as this box sold for about $17,000 - $25,000 US when it first came out.


Description from Karakuri Site:
At first, the main system is binary which is used Cubi.
This is my most important system.
Secondly, the wood inlay which was made by Haruo Uchiyama is the only one.
It's not a pasted wood inlay like traditional trick boxes in Hakone.
These wood inlay on all Apricots are different a little each other.
Finally I used the beautiful wood which is very hard to plane.
Maybe Apricot has made by our highest techniques.

created : 7/2002
size: 420 × 220 × 220　mm

material: Tochi(Japanese horse chestnut crepe), rosewood, etc.

[Roby]

Ahh !!! The apricot puzzlebox does spring to mind as the all time most sought after puzzlebox.  I beleive that only 4 of them were ever made.  Wonder what they would go for today if anyone would actually part with them.  My guess is they would fetch $150,000 today.

[MBD]

Someone finally made that puzzle necklace that can be seen in the movie "The Illusionist"
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/indiana21b

[MBD]

More random links:

Mummy Puzzle box?
http://www.yourprops.com/view_item.php?movie_prop=10345

Old Puzzle Box:
http://southamerica.alisonchandler.com/Potosi/76_PuzzleBox.jpg
http://southamerica.alisonchandler.com/Potosi/77_PuzzleBox.jpg

Who is this guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-MfEg5-Dk&feature=channel_page

Magic Billet Box
http://www.magicbilletbox.com/

Ultimate Puzzle Box?
http://puzzlemuseum.com/month/picm04/200403scan.htm

Balkan Puzzle
http://puzzlemuseum.com/month/picm05/200511hbox.htm

Can you unlock the puzzle padlock?
http://puzzlemuseum.com/month/picm07/2007-07-fishsol/Fishsol1.htm
info on said padlock
http://puzzlemuseum.com/month/picm07/2007-07-fishlock.htm

Simpson Puzzle Box
http://puzzlemuseum.com/month/picm08/2008-11-Simpson.htm

Build it yourself puzzle box- under WS
http://www.karakuri.gr.jp/creation2/index-e.html

[MBD]

wooden machines

http://woodgears.ca/machines.html

http://www.stephensoriginals.com/Gallery.html

http://www.woodthatworks.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ziwuIpnVY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5wJCzksT9k&feature=related

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/schickard_machine.html

http://images.google.com/images?ndsp=18&hl=en&um=1&q=wooden+machine&start=18&sa=N

[Canuck]

Ahh !!! The apricot puzzlebox does spring to mind as the all time most sought after puzzlebox.  I beleive that only 4 of them were ever made.  Wonder what they would go for today if anyone would actually part with them.  My guess is they would fetch $150,000 today.

I've got two of them, I suppose I could part with one of them

[jstrayer]

As a collector of Kamei's work, I thought seriously about acquiring Apricot when it was first offered through the Karakuri Club at $10000.  But I could not justify paying for a mechanism that I already had (in Cubi) and paying such a big price for a one-of-a kind (albeit beautiful) inlay.  I have resigned myself to the fact that I will never own one.  But I would like to see one up close sometime.  Perhaps even touch it. 

Sorry, this is getting too weird.