Cubefan visit

[Roby]

Gluing holly was my first thought as well.  It does glue well and would show no seems.  However, 2 3/4" planks glued together would be be 1.5" and so it would require gluing 3 planks together.  It still might be the best and most cost effective means.

[Trooper]

You know yourself with Holly, guing up plies together would work fine with no noticeable glue line 

Thanks John.  Laminated glue-ups may be the go I think.   

[Canuck]

As a side note:  I left that purpleheart piece in the oven while I was posting these pics (another 5 minutes) .  Half of it is now a deep roayal purple, and the part that was brown is now almost als black as ebony.

Just in case anyone is interested, here's a PDF on 'ebonizing wood' from Keith 'VisExp':

http://content.penturners.org/articles/2009/Ebonizing.pdf

[cubefan]

Hi all
  just bacl from my first trip in the coming 3 weeks:

you can exspect the first puzzle of the design competition we produced with the freindly permission of Osanori Yamamto: his 4 Piece Burr in Frame with a very intelligent and tricky solution; a lot of the members  of the IPP were enthusiasticly playing with this piece during the exhibition and asking for a production; may be tomorrow you will find the first pics at: www.puzzlewood.de ( gallery)

[cubefan]

Hi all

here are the first pics of the new puzzle ( 4 piece in frame )designed by Osanori Yamamoto, an entry for the last IPP design competition and real worth for every serious collector;
 we also made a very nice edge matching puzzle designed by Niek Neuwahl, a real famous game inventor with a touch for puzzles too; you can use it as a puzzle or as a tactical game for two players;
after the big success with some very nice wooden puzzles during the IPP (sold out f.e. More MazN`cubes - Coffin Extra Ball- Tabor TV ) we produced an additional small edition of these puzzles to fullfil some open and new orders

happy puzzling

Cubefan

[Canuck]

Those are all very nice puzzles Bernhard!! 

[akbar24601]

Those are some great looking puzzles Bernhard. I really like that MazN Cube.

[Roby]

Your television puzzle seems to have some static on the channel.  You might look into that bad reception.     Otherwise, what wonderful puzzles.  They truely are worthy of any serious collector.  Glad that you are out of quarentine and back at it. 

[cubefan]

Hi Roby

thanks for the friendly words; with the Television puzzle every collector will get an unique item because we made for each TV another screen pattern; and the puzzle has 2 solutions but only one brings a nice screen pattern with a good program;
thanks also for the good wishes but the docs are always searching which type of infection I got and have up to now

happy puzzling
Cubefan

[Jack]

here are the first pics of the new puzzle ( 4 piece in frame )designed by Osanori Yamamoto, an entry for the last IPP design competition and real worth for every serious collector;

Hi Bernhard,

The 4 piece in a frame really is a splendid puzzle. It's interlocking, but requiring a coordinated motion in the rotation. It has given me some happy puzzling!

Jack.

[cubefan]

Hi Jack

thanks for the compliments, but these nice words are with 80 % for the dsigner and 20 % only for us as the producer, but thanks again;

don`t worry about my long silence here, but I´m still alive but very very busy;
last weekend we had a big meeting from the  America Forum, a website for tourist to help them and to avoid useless routes for the holidays in teh south west;
then I had the Dutch Cubeday followed by the Toy Days in Essen and next weekend a small exhibitin for Kerstin´s paintings and afterwards a two days crafts show for the puzzles;
you see a lot of works
that`s the reason for the missing posts here

happy putzzling

cubefan(Utahfan)