Japanese trick chest video

[Arc Light]

Unique and secretive Japanese trick chests.  Check out the video, It's in Japanese but the pictures speak for themselves. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo6m0_karakuri-tansu

[Canuck]

I can't even imagine the amount of work involved in such a monumental task!

[Skiprat]

I must have one of those in my house as it is the only way I can explain the lost keys

[LEAP]

Puzzle Furniture How Cool is that?

[Roby]

Sigh, this just remindes me of the apothacary box  that I have been trying to get everyone together to contribute for the last few years.   

[Arc Light]

apothacary box   Sounds interesting, I'm all ears.

[Canuck]

Peter, don't go there

[MBD]

In English  :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19NoO1uXdUw
http://karakuriya.com/english/chest/shikake.htm

[Roby]

Perhaps John is right.  We should not go there anymore than we need a new thread on puzzle ethics.  It was just a crazy dream that nobody was really that interested in besides me anyway.

[MarkMc]

Robert,

I do regret that your special apothecary chest was a casualty of the war.  I still like the idea, I just don't think I would feel right working with all of the original members who signed on to help.  

[Johan Heyns]

How about an approach that sees it a one battle lost, but the war is not over? 

Bring ideas in and treat them royally, for one of them might be a king. - Mark van Doren

[Roby]

Naw, it was cursed to begin with.  I got turned down by most contemporary artists long before we even became a co-op.  Someday, I might just make it myself.  The only thing there is that it would be a year long project for me to make 10 of them and I would run out of resources long before they were finished.