Stewart Coffin's Four Color Nova puzzle (STC #8-B) made from Goncalo Alves, Yellowheart, Tulipwood and Tropical Walnut. Puzzle is from my personal collection.This is the fancy version with end blocks in four contrasting woods. Stewart only made three of these in 1987. There are three color symmetry problems to solve. The photograph depicts the "Rings" solution. A beautiful puzzle with excellent fit and finish. Puzzle made by me and has my signature.If the buyer chooses to use Paypal, then ...

By lengthening the triangular stick segments of the Permuted Third Stellation, a puzzle that resembles a nest of triangular sticks results. At first glance one might expect to be able to simply pull one of them out thus collapsing the whole thing... not so easy! Comparing this puzzle to the Permuted Third Stellation, the additional length of the triangular stick segments eliminates one of the two solutions, and makes it so that the remaining unique solution is only able to dis...

Stewart Coffin's Third Stellation in 4 Colors, number 50-B in his list of designs. This copy is made of Gaboon Ebony, Macassar Ebony, Tulipwood, Bloodwood, and a center of Cherry. Stewart proposed, but never made any of this design. First discussed in his Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections book on p 88. A rare and beautiful puzzle. Puzzle has my signature on the internal piece. Buyers assume actual PayPal fees and Shipping costs.

This puzzle was made by Lee Krasnow. It is called the Cluster Buster but it is made in a truncated version and uses three different woods to make this puzzle which is an easier puzzle according to Lee because of the truncated end pieces of the puzzle. They make it easier to grab in order to take it apart as well as put back together. I find them both difficult but understand what Lee means when he says the flattened tips make it so that it does not require 6 fingers to take apart the non truncat...

A Very Special Puzzle Chess Set by famed Artist and Puzzle maker, Franco Rocco.Scaccomatto was his first version, in Chrome and Gold Cubes.This is his later Version, starting in 2001, that was made with black oxidized and satin-silver nickel and chrome finished plated zinc alloy.In Excellent Condition, this is only the second time I have opened, and have never assembled.Very Very Rare.This is the version with the Wood Box, CD, original Packing, and a Metal Puzzle type Chess board to set up!I hav...

The six pieces of this puzzle all have the same shape, but different arrangements of the four colors of wood. The pieces will assemble in many different ways to form the third stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron. It is essentially a third stellation version of Stewart Coffin's Nova -- the obvious goal with this puzzle is to get the same colored sticks to line up. There are other ways to put the pieces together with color symmetry as well. Disassembly is possible along any of the...

Like Stewart Coffin's Diagonal Cube, the external appearance of this puzzle deceptively hides its internal construction. It is similar to the Crowded Cluster, but uses rhombic pyramid blocks with truncated faces instead of prism blocks. The puzzle is made from three each of left and right handed pieces, which are color coded to ensure that only one solution has color symmetry. Assembly is fairly easy for anyone familiar with puzzles based on the Diagonal Burr. According to ...

from cubicdissection.com:" I recently started corresponding with Jim Gooch about his various puzzle designs, and was pleased and flattered when he offered me his latest design to make and share with you all. This new puzzle, the switchboard burr, is very unique and interesting with a level 9 solution. In his words "I had the idea to combine pieces from a traditional burr puzzle, a board burr puzzle and the more complex version of the Three Piece Knot that Frans de Vreugd and I worked on a...

Each year in February and March I have more time so I can make some new or special puzzles. It is good and quiet occasion to make some ideas which I could not realize during a year. It is time when I can enjoy selection of the best coloured wood from my stock and I can make the puzzles as I want. I am usually doing these puzzles for myself or for my friends only. Each of puzzles on this auction is from this creation. These puzzles are not for commercial sale. All of them are waxed by special ...

One of my favorite designs. These puzzles are examples of workmanship that I don't care if they sell, they are so well made it is WOW!

The Rosebud is a coordinated motion puzzle made of 2 sets of 3 identical pieces. Assembly is very difficult. The assembly jig that is included makes assemble much easier.

The Rosebud is a coordinated motion puzzle made of 2 sets of 3 identical pieces. Assembly is very difficult. The assembly jig that is included makes assemble much easier.

Another early Eric Fuller work. This is harder to put together than to take apart. The puzzle has not been taken apart. The woods used were very high quality. All of these early Fuller puzzles were made with just one or two copies for trades that Eric and I did, and were not made for sale.Edit by marketplace admin: Designed by Dic Sonnenveld. Made with Chakte Viga and Holly.

A classic and striking puzzle by Stewart Coffin. 12 identical, but non-symmetrical pieces, each comprised of 5 sticks assemble to enclose a tricontrahedron. This particular puzzle has all 12 pieces made from Breadnut and includes an additional 13th piece, so once assembled, you can see the "basic" building block.  One of the pieces is marked, on the inside,  with the word "BREADNUT" and "#2-1 1976 S.T.C (see final picture)The fit of this puzzle is good.  When I first received it the first mov...

By lengthening the triangular stick segments of the Permuted Third Stellation, a puzzle that resembles a nest of triangular sticks results. At first glance one might expect to be able to simply pull one of them out thus collapsing the whole thing... not so easy! Comparing this puzzle to the Permuted Third Stellation, the additional length of the triangular stick segments eliminates one of the two solutions, and makes it so that the remaining unique solution is only able to dis...

Stewart Coffin, the famous puzzle inventor, designed Jupiter around 1971. It is made from 60 triangular stick segments. 5 such stick segments are glued together to form a total of 12 pieces. The design is covered under US-Patent: D-232571 (1974). The puzzle was made out of zebra, Osage orange, bloodwood, cherry, white oak, and walnut. The size of the assembled puzzle is roughly 15 cm/ 5.9 inches in diameter.A triacontahedron can be enclosed with an arrangement of thirty sticks with a triangular ...

Rhombox was the IPP Design Competition Trophy puzzle for 2003, 2004 and 2005. There are 12 pieces, several are similar, to make the Rhombox puzzle.

Stewart Coffin's Two Tiers puzzle ( STC #75-A) made from Bocote, Bloodwood, Tropical Walnut, Yellowheart, Chakte Viga and Koa. Puzzle is from my personal collection. This is the most difficult puzzle for me to part with, but I truly believe that other die hard Coffin collectors would want the chance to own it and will appreciate it as much as I do.This is the infamous Two Tiers puzzle. This design has been sitting on the shelf for many years but was never made by Mr Coffin (or anyone else th...

This puzzle is made by Lee Krasnow, Lee has this to say about Stewart Coffins design "Design notes: this difficult puzzle consists of 12 pieces, ten of which are the same rotationally symmetrical shape. Of the remaining two, one is missing an end block (it's the key piece) and the other one has that missing end block augmented onto its side. They assemble into a symmetrical cluster, and although the shape is not obvious, it is not too difficult to figure out how the pieces ...

# 11 1983Appears to be made of mahogany, rosewood and limbaIf the buyer chooses to be invoiced through Paypal, then Paypal fees of 3.98% will be added to the price. Buyer assumes all shipping fees.