I've had this puzzle on my mind for about a week now. I have a few other things ahead of it in the queue but jumping the line doesn't bother me with this. My DVD shelf is 99.99% done with just a few pesky finishing details left to do. And this puzzle is a doable gift for xmas. But before I jump the line with that, I worked on the DVD shelf.
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| got a lot of bleed through around the tape |
I made sure that I pressed the tape down before I painted. I had even rubbed it with a scrap of pine but it didn't work 100%. I used the blue 3M painters tape here but the Green Frog Painters tape is not supposed to bleed. I have a roll of the Green Frog tape somewhere but I couldn't find it to use on this. FYI - the blue tape bleeds.
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| has a few bits of tape still stuck still too |
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| scraped with a sheet rock knife |
Having a couple of coats of shellac on the shelves really saved the bacon here. I scraped this to bare wood and took all of the paint with it. The shellac kept the paint from getting into the wood. Since I have to shellac the shelves and the ends again this won't be seen when I'm done.
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| the before pic |
I had an after pic too but it was so blurry that I couldn't even make it out.
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| the big after pic |
I've got all the shelves scraped clean of the paint bleed through. I'll shellac the whole thing and then take a look at the ends where the shelves meet the ends. If need be I can touch up that junction with a small artist brush. This was also the reason I didn't do the through tenons on the outside of the ends.
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| scrap piece of thin pine from the black hole |
This puzzle requires two 'parts'. The puzzle pieces and a 'holder' of some type. Making the puzzle is going to be the hardest part so I'll concentrate on getting those kinks worked out tonight.
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| puzzle laid out |
I had one of these Tangram Puzzles when I was a kid (6 or 7) and it kicked my butt. It took me a while to figure out how it went back together. Time to pass the fun on to someone else. This one is about 7" square but I don't think the size really matters all that much. This puzzle has to be square in order for it to work so the outside dimensions are what are important to start with.
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| knifed the layout lines and made saw cut #1 |
My saw cuts were governed by which one wouldn't cut into an area it shouldn't. The first one sawed off the 2nd largest triangle. Sawing and staying in the knife line wasn't that difficult. I took my time working the saw backwards and I blew the line clean a lot.
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| saw cut #2 |
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| saw cut #3 |
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| saw cut #4 |
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| saw cut #5 |
The final saw cut was to separate the small triangle and square from saw cut #5.
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| all cut out |
If I you sawed this right you'll have 7 puzzle pieces here which I do. Now I have to assemble the pieces to make a 7" square.
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| got it but it took me 3 tries |
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| problem #1 |
The two biggest triangles are bowed with this one being the worse. I knew this before starting and I was treating this like it was practice piece but it came out much better than I expected it to. Tomorrow I'll try planing this to see what I end up with. I'm going to try and salvage this so I can maybe give it as a xmas present.
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| problem #2 |
These two triangles should be the same size. Even if I were to paint these parts they would still be off too much to be interchangeable.
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| problem #3 |
This looks square but the long measurement is 2 5/8" and the other is shy of 2 3/8". From what I read about this when I googled it, the puzzles parts are all proportional in size. i.e. the two small triangles in the pic should fit in either spot. (Here they don't) They should also come together and be the same size as the square.
I am pretty happy with how this came out. My main concern was sawing out the 7 parts reasonably well looking and I achieved that. I didn't spend a lot time on a careful layout and measuring of this at all. The only line I made sure of was the one from one corner to the opposite one. That one splits the puzzle in two. I know that if I measure properly on the opposite side of this line were the other five pieces are, this will work. I plan on painting it so I think I can get away with less the perfect but I'll have to do better than what I did here.
accidental woodworker
trivia corner
What is a gluteus maximus plasty?
answer - a buttock tuck
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