| Project by exelectrician | posted 10-21-2012 06:11 AM | 2926 views | 9 times favorited | 9 comments |  |
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Pentonimo puzzles from twelve different types of wood – gifts for my Grandsons.
These were a real challenge for my skills at the time, I used a machinest file on every edge to get every piece exactly right. Making the boxes I decided to rout the inset after gluing up. I did this with the maple frame on the wrong side of the fence and plunged the bit in! I know, dangerous and risky, but I didn’t know any better. Now I would do things differently, live and learn.
The wood used is: Cherry, Red oak, Ash, Black walnut, Black locust, Poplar, Vertical grain fir, Pedauk, Hickory, Maple, Bubinga and Yellow heart. The base dimension is 7/8” +/_ 0.010” and 1/8” roundover on all edges.
-- Love thy neighbour as thyself
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Tootles
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#1 posted 10-21-2012 09:29 AM
Oh that’s wicked! I didn’t know about this version of the puzzle – and the version that I have just about drove me crazy.
I have a very similar puzzle except that it has one extra piece. It is a “2×2” unit square (bottom right), which, I know, is different to all the other pieces as it has a unit area of 4 instead of 5, but it means that the puzzle is then done in a square box that is 8×8 units.
Yours is very well made. You did a good job of it. Good idea to include the solution.
One extra thing that I learned though is that it is a good idea to line the box with felt or similar. Without that, the incessant click, click, click that the pieces made as I tried to solve the puzzle just about drove my wife crazy!
-- I may have lost my marbles, but I still have my love of woodworking
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#2 posted 10-21-2012 09:38 AM
That would drive me nuts trying to figure out.
Looks like a good job on the build.
-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.
jap
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#3 posted 10-21-2012 12:18 PM
your grandsons will love that
-- Joel
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#4 posted 10-21-2012 01:02 PM
we are reading a book (car trips) to our daughter that features Pentominos in it. didn’t know they had to have 5 squares only, and all had names. This set is beautiful.
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#5 posted 10-21-2012 01:37 PM
That is very nicely done. The contrasting woods gives an added visual interest. The box is a great idea too.
-- Kay - Just a girl who loves wood.
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#6 posted 10-24-2012 11:07 PM
Nice job on this, Great gift idea, fine craftsmanship to achive the nice tight fit, Great job, thanks for sharing
-- It's Mic Keep working and sharing
exelectrician
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#7 posted 10-26-2012 12:18 AM
Thank you all for the kind comments.
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exelectrician
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#8 posted 10-26-2012 08:16 PM
Hi Tootles, google – “pentonimo solutions”, bingo you get them all. I use the congruent solutions as a memory test in my spare time.
-- Love thy neighbour as thyself
Tootles
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#9 posted 10-27-2012 01:36 PM
Thamks Exelectrician, that is quite a set of solutions that are out there.
I have my own set of solutions that I had to work out on my own. I first saw this puzzle over 15 years ago so the one that I made, and that I posted a photo of, was made sometime soon after that. The Internet has come a long way in those 15 years because I doubt I would have found all those pictures then.
-- I may have lost my marbles, but I still have my love of woodworking
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