That's too bad
It would've made a nice puzzle, however a multicolored version would still be possible but the entire end pieces would be made in different woods...still nice
Hi John you mean each 4hedra with its own color? 5 colors in total... Yes it could be nice indeed, it is less symmetric then every face its own uniform color, but fine!
I'd be interested in hearing how you would cut those pieces on a 'chop saw',
When I found the method I did not believe it could be so simple: prepare a rhombic stock 63.5, 116.5 as that one of vertigon.
prepare a jig with a slot in which to lay down the edge at 63.5.
cut fragments (thick slices) at 31.75 with the chop saw, once in hands and turned appropriately you will recognize the 6-hedra at the vertex of the pleiades
have you seen that puzzle ('Les Pleiades') broken down in pieces? I assume the dowels are all loose...
the key problem of the puzzle is to find a ratio thickness/lenght of the dowels and size of the block to obtain an interlocking puzzle despite it is loose: in other words 4hedra composing the puzzle are independent and stay in place just when the bars touch them each others
hoping i am explainig well enough
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