| Project by reddinosaur | posted 13 days ago | 513 views | 6 times favorited | 13 comments | ![]() |
![]() |
This is the cryptex from the Da Vinci Code. If you haven’t read it/seen the movie, it’s basically a puzzle vault/box. In order to open it you must solve the riddle and spell out the answer correctly. I got the pattern from a magazine called scrollsawer which I found at a local library. The riddle and Buddha on the ends were done on a laser engraver. I had intended the letters be done on the laser engraver too but that didn’t work out so I had to wood burn them last minute.
I used: walnut, oak, and cherry. The dowels are also walnut
-- Jess
































13 comments so far
Jimi_C
home | projects | blog
183 posts in 125 days
posted 13 days ago
Very neat, but you’re giving away the answer ;)
reddinosaur
home | projects | blog
52 posts in 19 days
posted 13 days ago
lol won’t be hiding anything good in there now =p
-- Jess
TopamaxSurvivor
home | projects | blog
2972 posts in 566 days
posted 13 days ago
Welcome to LJ!! nice project. i gotta make a couple of those for my grandkids:-)0
-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.
scottb
home | projects | blog
3403 posts in 1218 days
posted 12 days ago
I bought that issue just for this puzzle. (not that I’ve done anything about it yet.) Nicely done!
-- 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/
a1Jim
home | projects | blog
16484 posts in 468 days
posted 12 days ago
Interesting idea
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
fotomaker57
home | projects | blog
9 posts in 103 days
posted 12 days ago
Which issue was this in?
-- Don't Tread on me
Autumn
home | projects | blog
72 posts in 43 days
posted 12 days ago
I love puzzle containers. Nice job.
RKW
home | projects | blog
77 posts in 338 days
posted 12 days ago
Thats really cool, I love Dan Brown’s books. You did a great job.
-- RKWoods
Hacksaw
home | projects | blog
82 posts in 267 days
posted 12 days ago
Incredibly cool. I have always wanted to try something like this.
-- teh most beautiful about a tree is what you can make out of it...even if that is only a fire!I hate raking
reddinosaur
home | projects | blog
52 posts in 19 days
posted 12 days ago
Here’s a link to the issue but the plans aren’t available online (issue 27)
http://www.foxchapelpublishing.com/p-865-scroll-saw-woodworking-crafts-issue-27-summer-2007.aspx
A little hint if you really will make it, the rings need a rabbet on it done on the router. The plans say to use something like a grip pad but if you do then you can’t see the bit as you’re working. I’ve read some forums about it and some people turned the rings on the lathe and others made the rabbet on a drill press before cutting out the rings.
Hope this helps!
-- Jess
reddinosaur
home | projects | blog
52 posts in 19 days
posted 12 days ago
One last thing- the inner “vault” is pretty small so if I were to do this again I would make everything wider. The plans say you can buy hollow dowels but I just made one on a lathe and drilled through. Also the vault’s door looks kind of dumb compared to the rest of the project. I’m not sure if maybe you can add tiny tiny hinges but i think that would look much better
-- Jess
RexMcKinnon
home | projects | blog
643 posts in 86 days
posted 11 days ago
very cool
-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
Tony Ennis
home | projects | blog
69 posts in 27 days
posted 11 days ago
How fun!
-- Tony