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[rolly_wood]

Ok I love indeed the labels with written Handcrafted from natural materials, minor variations and imperfections are part of their charm and individuality
or again: Please expect and embrace the handcrafted “imperfections” that you will find make each and every piece truly unique

 

[Canuck]

Rolly, now how did you know I affix that same thing to all of my puzzles 

[gibell]

If Blossom were glued it would need to be very precisely done to have a tight fit, if instead it is held together by a beech dowel, the blocks can be left a bit spaced apart let us say one or two tenths of millimiter and, in this case, it shows also some degree of flexibility which is optimal for the tight fit.
I use 6 or 8 mm beech dowels and they are rather good but if they are too loose, I put a bit of shellac in the hole and it becomes Ok.

Ah ... very clever!  I gather the photo does not show the final spacing but rather how the dowels are used.  It seems the spacing in the photo is more than a few tenths of a mm?  What does the finished piece look like?

How do you keep the final spacing uniform?  I could think of using a certain number of sheets of paper, that are removed after drying.

[rolly_wood]

Ah ... very clever!  I gather the photo does not show the final spacing but rather how the dowels are used.  It seems the spacing in the photo is more than a few tenths of a mm?  What does the finished piece look like?

Hi George, no, of course it is not the final spacing, I extracted blocks to show dowels... The finished piece (I chose the worser of the four) is shown below

How do you keep the final spacing uniform?  I could think of using a certain number of sheets of paper, that are removed after drying.

The spacing does not need to be uniform but, since it is used to compensate the errors, kept at minimum to allow a tight fit of the puzzle. I do not use paper but metal sheets to measure thicknesses


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[rolly_wood]

This also does not allow an easy recognition of which blocks make part of one piece and which ones do not.
This is a side: how will it separate? 

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[gibell]

Gorgeous puzzle!  I agree the small gaps would make it harder to take apart.  Can't be determined from the photo.

[Canuck]

I just added 'Oskar's puzzles' YouTube videos link in the first post or follow it here, these are quite amazing!! 

http://www.youtube.com/user/OskarPuzzle

[gibell]

I just added 'Oskar's puzzles' YouTube videos link in the first post or follow it here, these are quite amazing!!  

Agreed, Oskar is very active on Shapeways, and has been churning out tons of new twisty designs.  He is also a video star!

John, your signature is making me dizzy!

[gibell]

Richard Gain's Microcubology videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/microcubology

[Canuck]

Thanks for posting the link George    Those puzzles are small 

edit; my sig was a little dizzying 

[Canuck]

Here's yet another YouTube video, this one from Roland Koch 

http://www.youtube.com/user/KNOXPuzzles