puzzle how this puzzle works there's a nail in there and then the point of the
puzzle is how do you get that nail out without breaking anything without
bending anything so it's a super easy puzzle to build but a really hard puzzle
to solve I'll go ahead and show you how to make the puzzle you could click in
the link for the template of the plans of the wood block and then after I'm
done showing you how to build a puzzle I'll show you how to solve it
We are working with Poplar surfacing the fourth edge
surfaced on four sides, planed on both joined on one then now I'm gonna rip to width which is 2 inches it's a
narrow rip make sure you have your glasses on
don't use is tool unless you've been properly trained have your push stick
and reach I'm not going to reach for it until the butt of the board is on the table
do not reach for scraps until it completely stopped then we'll go over the chop saw
crosscut to get our fifth edged surface and then cut to length surfaced on six
sides okay I'm all surfaced on four sides rip to two inches wide
then I'm surfaced on four so first thing I do on my block here is I cross cut to
get that edge perpendicular I have a clamp and I'm holding firmly fingers
never in the path of the blade do not use this saw unless you've been
properly trained so now I'm surfaced on five sides and I measure four and a
quarter down I measure four and a quarter then on that mark this is my keep
piece this is my scrap even though my scraps larger I'm still gonna take my
blade width and put it into my scrap
that's it right there and clamp it down hold it firmly now I
have my block of wood for my project surfaced on all six sides by plane this
is jointed rip parallel cross cut perpendicular then cut to length I'm
going to do my layout next using the combination square so I'm going to come
down an inch the overall blocks two inches I'm going to come down an inch
three quarters in let me just mark these first get an idea and then I'm going to
set this combination square down to three quarters of an inch because
everything's perpendicular I'm gonna come in over three quarters this way
over three quarters this way and from there I'm gonna come over an inch
three quarters and then it should be an inch from there to there and now I'm
gonna set this combination square back to an inch
they can draw all these marks in there
these are my scraps I've got to make sure my blades go in there on up on the
bandsaw three quarters of an inch one inch three quarters of an inch one inch
three quarters of it is an overall four and a quarter by 2 and this is thirteen
sixteenths poplar It is important that the grain layout goes this way so go to the bandsaw next
can't make cut okay then just gently back up a little bit I'm pleased
fingerprint blade back it up and then what you're doing now is depending a
relief cut to get a little more okay
yep you just knock that block out don't reach for it
yep perfect and then I go in
and keep those fingers out of the path of the blade nice and gentle
let's take a look at it now we're just gonna soak it in water overnight
dip these three tools so far the table saw the miter saw and the bandsaw these
things have been soaking for probably 12 hours we also do a little bit of layout
and also talked about wood properties the way the grain lays this is poplar
and all the grain is going this way that's an important part of the project
now we're going to take this block and put it in a vise leave it in there
overnight we'll let it dry all compress the device here I'm gonna clamp it down
you'll actually just see the water running out of it so I'm gonna clamp it
down you can see it actually dripping on the floor they're supposed to clamp down
pretty good okay so here it is dried overnight you could a drill that one is
wet or you could drill it is dry but as you want clamp it you can see that it's
really holding that compression so it's holding that smashed inside there and
then you put in the vise to drill it you really trying to stay centered
there it is there's a hole drill then just slide the nail right in there and
then now that the nails in there I'm gonna put it back into the tub this is
going to expand out and you'll see it'll go right back to its natural shape so I
can exhale we drilled the hole I mean it was compressed in put the nail in just
trim them back in a bucket of water for a little bit and you can see they really
reform the shape but they had so now I'm just gonna take it out of the water now
it's reformed to shape I'll lay it out on some paper towels let it dry for a
few hours and then gonna clean it up a little bit by sanding y'all dried so I
see the nail there plays in here there's some marks here and here from clamping
something's gonna clean it up I'll use it this sander
products out this is really my intro project super easy bandsaw project but
there are three skill sets I'd like to see us to take away from this they rip
to width so you use the table saw cross cut to length using the miter saw use
the bandsaw and then some Sanders I did I liked that hold at the end is the
puzzle because as you try and solve this puzzle you know people think that's part
of the solution that hold in there so it'll slide in there but you can't
figure it out so it's a great puzzle it also teaches
properties of woods really easy bandsaw project and then the solution of course
is that you have to soak it in water and recompress it to get the nail out kids
will break it to get it out but the point of the puzzle is properties who
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have a better take on this puzzle I enjoy it teaches skills and it's kind
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