Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles

Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles
18 Three-Dimensional Games for the Hands & Mind
by Charlie Self with
Tom Lensch

Softcover
210 x 275mm
126pp

Published by Creative Publishing International, Chanhassen, MN, USA

R.R.P.$24.90

ISBN 1-58923-247-X

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Four-piece Interlocking Cube

The Wooden Knot

As reviewed in The Australian Woodworker Issue 132

Only modest woodworking skills are required to make most of the 18 wooden puzzles in this book, yet they will provide many, many hours of entertainment for young and old.

Some of the puzzles are sure to be familiar. These include the Dagger Puzzle, in which the goal is to free a metal ring without cutting the cord which passes through it and the Tower of Hanoi, in which the aim is to move all the discs or chips from one end post to the other.

Others are less well known, but all are made principally or solely from wood which can be cut and formed to the necessary simple shapes with commonly used tools and equipment. Of course, if you have a fully equipped workshop, so much the better, since you will be able to make the puzzles more quickly.

While most of the book is taken up by careful and well illustrated descriptions of the puzzles, there is an introductory chapter that deals with such topics as the adjustment of a tablesaw to achieve the required accuracy, making a couple of useful tablesaw jigs, the choice of wood, gluing, sanding and finishing.

Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles holds the key to:

- 18 entertaining puzzle plans

- Clear explanations and photos for all the techniques you'll need

- Complete materials and cutting lists

- Colour how-to photos

- Colour photos showing the slippery solutions

Photos: Colour

Units of Measurement: Imperial

Contents

Introduction

Basic Techniques
- Workshop Safety
- Tools for Crafting Wood Puzzles
- Truing the Table Saw Blade to 90°
- Making Cutting Jigs
- Selecting Wood for Puzzles
- Preparing Wood Stock
- Ripping Boards Into Usable Shapes
- Forming Wood Squares and Rectangles
- Drilling
- Gluing and Clamping
- Sanding
- Finishing

Wood Puzzle Projects
- Two Rings Puzzle
- Dagger Puzzle
- Block and Tackle Puzzle
- Peg Solitaire
- Soma Cube
- Half-hour Puzzle
- Four-piece Interlocking Cube
- The Wooden Knot
- Six-piece Burr Puzzle
- Altekruse Puzzle
- 24-piece Chuck Puzzle
- Notched Packing Puzzle
- Boxed Burr Puzzle
- Pentominoes
- Twin Homes Puzzle
- 18 Sticks
- Tower of Hanoi
- Melting Block