Jerry had been crafting mostly Bill Cutler puzzle designs prior to releasing this design in ‘92. His background in engineering led him to a novel automation of his burr notching method that allows such precise notches. I originally started making Bill’s packing puzzles for him to sell on his website in the mid 2000’s and struck up a friendship with Jerry at that time. Once I began offering puzzles for Eric to sell on Cubicdissection I soon asked Jerry if he wanted to sell some of his work there as well and that’s when he sold a run of these very cool Quadlock 1 puzzles.
Here’s Jerry’s description of the Quadlock designs:
“Quadlock 1 is a difficult to take apart 19 piece flattened cube puzzle. Quadlock 3 is a similar 25 piece cube but with a completely different disassembly method. It is more difficult than Quadlock 1 and requires 22 moves to get out the first piece.
Both puzzles are made with 7/8” Walnut, Mahogany and Maple.
Note: Quadlock 2 was a 23 piece version of Quadlock 1. Since it was very similar to Quadlock 1 only a few models were made and it was discontinued.”
The lock picking sequence used is quite cool and a lot of fun trying to conjure up the elusive opening sequence. This original version measured 3.5" x 3.5" x 2.6".
Subsequently Jerry offered a slightly smaller version in 2011 version 2.9” x 2.9” x 2.2” . As well as several different exotic wood varieties:
Tulipwood/Wenge/Maple
Cocobolo/Wenge/Maple
Walnut/Maple/Cardinal
The copy below has Jerry’s unique stamped marking of #10 with his initials and year in pencil.
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