Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles 18 Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind

by Self, Charlie; Lensch, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781589232471
• ISBN10: 158923247X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-12
• Publisher: Cool Springs Press

Summary

For centuries, logic puzzles have entertained, inspired and educated kids of all ages. Studies show these engaging "brain teasers" provide unsurpassed benefits to the body and mind, increasing manual dexterity, mathematical abilities and overall intellectual agility.Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles provides plans and instructions for crafting 18 of the most popular manual puzzles. Projects range from traditional "put together/take apart" games like pentominoes and soma cubes to more sophisticated "unlocking" head-scratchers, such as the Burr and Heart Box puzzles. Readers will also learn specialized cutting, drilling, sanding, gluing and finishing techniques that make crafting wooden puzzles possible.

Author Biography

Charlie Self is a woodworker and professional writer from Bedford, Virginia. He has written dozens of books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles on the craft of woodworking.

Self/Lensch

Table of Contents

Introduction	4	(2)
BASIC TECHNIQUES	6	(28)
Workshop Safety	8	(1)
Tools for Crafting Wood Puzzles	9	(3)
Truing the Table Saw Blade to 90°	12	(3)
Making Cutting Jigs	15	(5)
Selecting Wood for Puzzles	20	(2)
Preparing Wood Stock	22	(2)
Ripping Boards Into Usable Shapes	24	(1)
Forming Wood Squares and Rectangles	25	(1)
Drilling	26	(2)
Gluing and Clamping	28	(4)
Sanding	32	(1)
Finishing	33	(1)
WOOD PUZZLE PROJECTS	34	(80)
Two Rings Puzzle	36	(4)
Dagger Puzzle	40	(4)
Block and Tackle Puzzle	44	(2)
Peg Solitaire	46	(2)
Soma Cube	48	(6)
Half-hour Puzzle	54	(4)
Four-piece Interlocking Cube	58	(4)
The Wooden Knot	62	(4)
Six-piece Burr Puzzle	66	(6)
Altekruse Puzzle	72	(4)
24-piece Chuck Puzzle	76	(4)
Notched Packing Puzzle	80	(4)
Boxed Burr Puzzle	84	(6)
Pentominoes	90	(6)
Twin Homes Puzzle	96	(6)
18 Sticks	102	(4)
Tower of Hanoi	106	(4)
Melting Block	110	(4)
WOOD PUZZLE SOLUTIONS	114	(11)
The solutions to the puzzles, with page references	116	(9)
Reference Charts	125	(1)
Index	126