Simple Christmas Gift - Melting Block Puzzle

Great idea, Gary!

Thanks for the Sketchup file.

Lew

Very cool Gary. I think I’ll try this.

-- Bruce from Central New York

As always, very nice Gary!

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

This looks like a fun project.

I have always loved wooden puzzles and have been wanting to make one. I think I’ll try yours!

-- Bill from Lithia Springs, GA I love the smell of sawdust in the morning.

Neat.

Are these dimensions correct?

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

DaveR – They look correct.

Just to play it safe here are the dimensions. Also for those who don’t use Skecthup.

Look the third picture above to see all 9 parts.

The short blocks are all 19/32” thick. The tall blocks are 1 3/16” thick.

Just cut one tall and short piece for each size below. Then make one extra of the smallest piece.

For those who are Imperically challanged :-)

2 3/4 = 69.8500 mm
1 3/4 = 44.4500 mm
1 3/8 = 34.9250 mm
1 3/16 = 30.1498 mm
7/8 = 22.2250 mm
19/32 = 15.0813 mm

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

guys when are you going to go metric please lol…......

andy

-- cut it saw it scrap it

Very cool, Gary!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Gary, Nice idea….and thanks for the dimensions and sketchup drawing.

-- Martin, Kansas

Very innovative puzzle for Christmas. It will keep people busy for some time.
Sharad

-- patanjali

Gary, is the 19/32” and 1 3/16” correct for the dimensions across the back in my view of your drawing? That’s how they dimensioned out when I looked at your model.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

DaveR – Yes those are the correct dimensions.

In my drawing above I just call that the thickness.

The drawing you display just have them standing on edge.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Wasn’t it Dewey (of the Dewey Decimal system that was pushing us to go metric? Obviously it took) This is another great puzzle. and I still have time to knock one out this year if I so choose. This and the next have been favorited. Thanks!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I got a PM asking how I safely cut these small pieces. Thought that you all might be interested.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Neat puzzle Gary. But the eight ten-thousanths of a millimetre is certainly beating me and my Incra Rule! <g>

A happy and safe 2009 to you and yours!

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

Lookin’ good. I have to try this. Got grandkids coming up to work on it when I get done wtit it :-))

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.