Wooden Puzzles: 20 Handmade Puzzles and Brain Teasers

by Brian Menold

Overview

What could be better than a woodworking project that expands your woodworking skills, results in a gallery-worthy project that will bring hours of entertainment, and could even make a dent in your pile of scrap wood? 20 of those projects compiled into one great book. In Wooden Puzzles, master puzzle maker BRIAN MENOLD takes you step-by-step through the construction of 20 ingenious puzzle designs. With plenty of clear photographs and illustrations along the way, you’ll have no problem creating beautiful puzzles of your own no matter what your skill level. The final puzzles range from relatively simple to solve to devilishly difficult so the fun doesn’t end when the projects are complete.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631863608
Publisher:	Taunton Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,012,598
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

A woodworker for over 40 years, Brian Menold began making wooden puzzles in 2009. His beautifully made puzzles are available through his website, Wood Wonders.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction

GETTING STARTED
1. Tools for Puzzle Making
2. Selecting Wood for Your Puzzles
3. Jigs for Puzzle Making

THE PUZZLES
Before You Begin
1. Five-Piece Solid Block
2. Little Kenny
3. Three-Piece Block
4. Convolution
5. The Elevator
6. Saturno #1
7. 8 Plaques=Cube
8. Knotty 3
9. Bedevil
10. Pentominoes into a Light Box
11. Caged Knot
12. Bundle of Sticks Jr.
13. Murbiter's Cube
14. Triumph
15. Vega
16. Distorted Cube
17. Octohedral Cluster
18. Peg Pile
19. Cruiser
20. Tabula Cube
Taking Your Puzzles to the Next Level

PUZZLE SOLUTIONS