Hours of puzzling work for a piece of art, wonderfull woods gives to this puzzle a wonderfull look.
The best way to describe this rare and puzzling piece of art is to redirect you to Puzzlemad's blog :
https://www.puzzlemad.co.uk/2012/08/nickel-box.html
some extracts :
" Limited to only 20
copies, it is a caged burr measuring 7.5cm on each axis and is
surprisingly heavy (400g) due to the use of Ebony as its main component [...]
The burrs are carved from a single piece of wood
with no gluing used at all. The embellishments to the burr pieces and
box are made from Beech.
[...]
Without the colouring provided by the Beech dowels there 19,344 possible
assemblies of these pieces of which 1914 can actually be achieved. The
toughest achievable assembly is enforced by the use of the extra
colours/Beech dowels. This limits the possibilities to 3 assemblies and
only one actually achieveable !
[...]
Whilst 28 moves should not be tremendously
difficult, there are dozens of false starts and blind alleys to go down
making this a really really tough puzzle. It took me 2 weeks of
attention to get the first piece out and then several more days before I
finally managed to extract the rest. Even after 2 pieces had been
removed, I was staggered at how difficult it was to get the third out!"
Signed by Maurice Vigouroux.
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