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My Puzzle Collection
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: January 19, 2018, 10:33 am
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As you may know, another one of my hobbies is solving twisty
puzzles. I have a negligible* amelioration for this particular
hobby :).
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Re: My Puzzle Collection
By: GothicChessInventor Date: January 19, 2018, 1:39 pm
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This is the only really unique one that I have. A 13x13x13 cube
comprised of an outer rectangular frame and an inner 11x11x11
sphere. The only one in the world, I think.
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Re: My Puzzle Collection
By: chilipepper Date: January 28, 2018, 9:34 am
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Asher, the photo is a little too small to see what puzzles are
there. Appears to be mainly rubik's cube type puzzles?
GothicChessInventor, who made that 13x13x13 puzzle? Any idea how
it was made? A 3d printer would work nicely for something like
this, but I have a hunch this was produced differently.
???
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Re: My Puzzle Collection
By: GothicChessInventor Date: January 28, 2018, 12:02 pm
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[quote author=chilipepper link=topic=34.msg273#msg273
date=1517153690]
Asher, the photo is a little too small to see what puzzles are
there. Appears to be mainly rubik's cube type puzzles?
GothicChessInventor, who made that 13x13x13 puzzle? Any idea how
it was made? A 3d printer would work nicely for something like
this, but I have a hunch this was produced differently.
???
[/quote]
The guy who made it did not honor his refund policy after more
than one of the sliding center pieces broke, so I am reluctant
to furnish his name to give him any prospective new business. I
did pay $2000 for it so I expected much better customer service.
About a month after his back-and-forth nonsense, I decided to
disassemble the whole thing, scan every piece, digitally repair
those that were broken or showing signs that they would
potentially be a problem in the future, and took it to a
prototyping design firm that reconstituted the new pieces out of
a much stronger substrate. It was expensive to do that too, $500
for use of their machine and their materials costs, but now the
thing is practically indestructible.
This summer I plan on making the entire thing out of metal, with
die-cast colors fused to the surface so that I never have to
worry about stickers peeling off.
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Re: My Puzzle Collection
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: January 30, 2018, 11:56 am
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chillipepper, "twisty puzzle" is just another term to describe
Rubik's type puzzles.
GothicChessInventor, it's sad to see the great Tony Fisher
doesn't have great customer service, especially with all of the
reverence he receives in the community.
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Re: My Puzzle Collection
By: GothicChessInventor Date: January 30, 2018, 12:27 pm
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[quote author=Asher Hurowitz link=topic=34.msg297#msg297
date=1517334988]
chillipepper, "twisty puzzle" is just another term to describe
Rubik's type puzzles.
GothicChessInventor, it's sad to see the great Tony Fisher
doesn't have great customer service, especially with all of the
reverence he receives in the community.
[/quote]
Well I left his name out of it, and you mentioned it, so there's
no undoing that now.
He went a little beyond "bad customer service" because he bought
two of those MoYu 15x15x15 cubes and there were several hundred
dollars each at the time, except... It was later discovered that
some early models of that cube had centers that would "slide
out" of their tracks, and sometimes the "arms" of those centers
would crack. The defective ones were identified and sold at
"fire damage" prices and he bought two of those cubes; one to
make the outer frame with, and one to carve into a sphere with a
dremel grinding tool. He MUST have known this would have been an
issue in ADVANCE. He could have warned me to keep this for a
"decorative cube only" and I would have been OK with it, but I
wanted to try and solve it at least once. (I never solved it
twice total because of the damage).
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Re: My Puzzle Collection
By: ubersketch Date: April 3, 2018, 4:03 pm
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[quote author=GothicChessInventor link=topic=34.msg138#msg138
date=1516390749]
This is the only really unique one that I have. A 13x13x13 cube
comprised of an outer rectangular frame and an inner 11x11x11
sphere. The only one in the world, I think.
[attachimg=1]
[/quote]
is that from the man himself, tony fisher?!
also yeah, he doesn't have very good customer service. (but
that's mostly because his puzzles are one of a kind)
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Re: My Puzzle Collection
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: April 7, 2018, 11:09 am
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[quote author=ubersketch link=topic=34.msg758#msg758
date=1522789411]
[quote author=GothicChessInventor link=topic=34.msg138#msg138
date=1516390749]
This is the only really unique one that I have. A 13x13x13 cube
comprised of an outer rectangular frame and an inner 11x11x11
sphere. The only one in the world, I think.
[attachimg=1]
[/quote]
is that from the man himself, tony fisher?!
also yeah, he doesn't have very good customer service. (but
that's mostly because his puzzles are one of a kind)
[/quote]
Ubersketch you are a cuber too?
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