Tubular Burr Box : Manufacture Lee Krasnow

Tubular Burr Box

This is what Lee has to say when he originally sold them at auction on this site in 2008 

"Over the past year, the team at Pacific Puzzleworks has been developing our own super-high-quality hardwood laminate product that we make ourselves by pressing together veneer cut from sustainably harvested trees (cherry, walnut and maple) using non-toxic aliphatic resin wood glue. This special puzzlemaking plywood is sanded to accurate dimension, and then laser-cut with high-resolution etching on both sides of the material. The unsurpassed quality of the resulting puzzle pieces can be seen by examining the full-size version of the photographs. The perfect fit and meticulous attention to detail is what you would expect from anything bearing a Pacific Puzzleworks logo.

As fantastic as we think these new puzzles are, and as eager as we are to start selling them on our own website, we're waiting to set that up until we've got all of the major kinks worked out of the production line, and we've got packaging and instructions sheets worked up. We expect these details to fall into place within the next few months, however Eric Fuller has agreed to let us use his website as a way to offer the puzzle collecting community a small production pre-release sale. Money earned will help finance Lee and Celeste's trip to Prague for IPP28, where we'll have more of these puzzles for sale."

This was a decade ago before anyone was even thinking about SPH's as a standard measurement system.  I bought them thinking they would suitable for a chimpanzee, where as now it is apparent they are definitely puzzles for hamsters.

I have disassembled one of these puzzles (just not this one). They are fiddly but not impossible. One of the few puzzles a standardised Puzzle Hamster could genuinely solve on it's owm. Well perhaps two or three of them working together as a team.  The whole puzzle only weights about a sixth of the weight of a SPH, so they'd have no problem lifting the pieces.

 If Cherry (or maybe this one is Maple?) is not your thing see my other auctions as I also have a Walnut ply version.  

The standardised puzzle Hamster is not included in this auction but is included for scale. A standardised hamster has a length of 160mm, height of 76mm, and weight of 64g.  

I am selling these puzzles to raise funds for IPP. All proceeds will be re-invested in puzzles and alcohol at IPP. I am starting everything at $5 irrespective of market value, so please bid generously.

Postage will be at cost from the UK, if paying by paypal please add 4% to cover transaction fees.

I'll happily deliver this puzzle by hand to the winning bidder at either the next MPP or IPP if that works for you.