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Nuts
Nuts - my very first Nut and Bolt Puzzle.
What seems like an impossible puzzle is actually a devious little take apart peice.
The aim is to remove the five nuts from the bolt.
While a 'fairly' simple puzzle; the machining of this puzzle was far from easy. After spending countless hours trying to work out how to machine this on the lathe - it finally hit me one evening. After quite a bit of investment at the time in purchasing other bits of tooling for the lathe. Nuts finally became a reality.
Out of all the puzzles I have made; this one by far has had the most amount of failures of which i've had to bin. A great puzzle that can be taken anywhere in your pocket and shown to amuse friends and family alike.
Spinning Tumblers
I guess in retrospect I could have called this Spinning Tumblers V1. This was my 2nd puzzle that I had ever made - originally out of scrap steel.
It wasn't until I had made this puzzle that I decided to make both this and Sticky Barrel out of brass and put them on Ebay.
Again, I would say it is a fairly simple puzzle of which once you figure out what is going on - it is both fairly easy to solve and both reset.
Like many of my puzzles it does showcase my personality of a fidget. With all of the disks able to move individually it defiently has the feel of a fidget toy if you didn't know you could take it part - well a heavy one at that!
Free the Washer
Out of all the puzzles that I have made; this is one that I do get asked for the most. Unfortunately I won't be making anymore due to the sheer volume of brass I need to purchase.
As the name suggest. Free the Washer - how hard can it be? It turns out that when you design, make and put together 72 of them you think it is quite easy. It turns out it was a little more devious than I had anticipated.
Made from both brass and stainless steel (lesson learnt, don't turn stainless steel on a manual mill - the CNC guys make it look easy) this heafty puzzle was the first puzzle I made after purchasing my mill.
Overall, it was a great project of which was time consuming to make and something completely different from my normal puzzles.
Penny Bank
Penny Bank was an exhange puzzle for Asher Simon at the IPP 2024 event in Texas.
Asher wanted a puzzle to contain several elements to the solve. After quite a few prototypes; we finally got to a concept that we were both happy with.
A great little puzzle; albeit slightly heavier than it looks and an absolute pleasure to make