Cubefan visit

[rolly_wood]

Cubefan is visitng Italy, (it seems that he knows my country better than me!) and we had a pleasant lunchtime together at my home, He is the first puzzlemaker of you guys I met, I and my family have been impressed by his sympathy and friendiness... it was a really nice chance for me to know him and talk about puzzles, food and others.with some glasses of red wine which, it is scientifcally proven, helps to overcome language barrier 
I have showm him my pieces and (shame  ) my garagelab...
Photos were taken by his camera, with mine one just few ...
When he will be back possibly will add something

[Canuck]

Very cool Rolly!!

[Arc Light]

Wow a nice sunny day!, Wine!, and Puzzles!, sounds like a fantastic time!!!  I was lucky enough to meet Bernhard at IPP, I am sure you guys had a great day of puzzling.  That's one cool selection of puzzles Rolly!!!

[jaurand]

Wine and puzzles - sounds divine!

[cubefan]

Hi all

just back from my halftime private and halftime business Italy-trip I can tell you I was real impressed by my visit at rollywood; his wife invited us for a typical and fantastic italian dinner and so we could start to discuss and play with puzzles; I was real astonished about his fantastic mathematical creativity to find some very cool tricks how to produce soem real hard to find angles in his puzzles and how he did it with his small machines; he is a rel very very good woodworkers with ingenious ideas;
it was real fun and learning for me to meet him; after some glasses of red wine ( home made by his father in law, excellent quality) we moved into Tuscany where we had to meet and artist for preparation of an exhibition of his wokrs in Germany;

I can say the medicine ( liquid and red) helped a little bit,

but not completely recovered

Bernhard

an extra thnaks for rollywood`s wife and heim for the excellent hospitaility

[cubefan]

hi all again

may be you have seen all the misprinting in my last post, that was not the result of the wine, may be from my bad constitution after all the infects I have got

but be sure
more pics will come

happy puzling

Cubefan

[gibell]

More wine is suggested.  Kills off all bad bugs and slow cells, leaving only the strongest, fittest, and smartest brain cells.
 

[cubefan]

hi all

as I promised here are some pics from our visit ( my wife Kerstin + me) in Rovereto ( northern italy ) in rollywood`s house ;
we had a very nice afternoon there and with nice discussions about puzzles;
his technic for the cuts in  different angles with a combination of self made jigs and a router was very imressive for me and completely new; and have a look which small sizes of wood he uses

best regards and happy puzzling
cubefan

[Canuck]

Awesome pics!  Rolly, your techniques are inspiring...I often find myself looking for alternatives to using the tablesaw for cuts...eg. all of my 'hex' puzzles were initially notched at the tablesaw but finished up on the router table 

[rolly_wood]

thank you Bernhard the courtesy was yours in having planned a stop in your trip to visit us. Of course who of you will cross the Alps, (and the others too) is wellcome.
Sorry that the medicine did not work bur George is right: it is like antibiotics, you can't stop intake suddenly. 

John happy to hear that ..

PS my town is a right place for a woodworker: Rovereto means oak-wood in the sense of "forest" 

[Roby]

I thought I was creative when it come to making jigs, but using a router to make angled grooves like that would never have crossed my mind.  I might have to steal the idea.   

[cubefan]

I thought I was creative when it come to making jigs, but using a router to make angled grooves like that would never have crossed my mind.  I might have to steal the idea.   

Hi Roby

I was standing in front of that technic and in the first moment I was only laughing at this great idea; I couldn`t believe that this technic could work so exact but Rollywood showed me the pieces he made with this trick

happy puzzling
cubefan

[Roby]

From the pic is seemed as if it would splinter or tear out, as there does not appear to be any backing, but the work seems to suffer none of these affects.  I actually prefer to make cuts from the top instead of the bottm (back from my old radial arm saw day).  It is nice to see the cut as it is taking place as opposed to seeing it after it is already cut and the piece flipped over.  From my experience with the overhead radial arm saw, I know that there are certain cuts that you just cannot do on a traditional table saw, which is why I keep mine around.   

[rolly_wood]

I thought I was creative when it come to making jigs, but using a router to make angled grooves like that would never have crossed my mind.  I might have to steal the idea.  

honoured if you will use Roby, I am glad that you like it

From the pic is seemed as if it would splinter or tear out, as there does not appear to be any backing, but the work seems to suffer none of these affects

Yes, it affects a bit the pieces but at a "sandable" level. With some woods eg padouk major tear out happens in a 5-10% of pieces which have to be discarded

EDIT I wanted to say splintering since a little fragment flies away

[Roby]

Suggestion - Modification

Rolly, your ratio of discarded pieces is right around my average, so there is no real problem there.  However, consider this.  Modify your jig system slightly so that you put in 8 planks side by side at a time (and stagger them left to right so that it makes the cut in the same place on each plank).  The first and last plank would have a small amount of tear out and may have to be discarded, but all of inner planks will be perfect because they each have a plank on either side of it to prevent tear out.  The added bounus is that you produce 8 pieces with a single cut and save time.