Thursday, September 16, 2021

DDD Burr Set - Darryl Adams - Bryan Turner - Eric Fuller by CubicDissection

This is a very nice set, whenever someone asks about where to start with Burr puzzles I always think they should start with six-piece burrs.  This set definitely fits the bill, with its vast amount of combinations.

Eric really outdone himself with the box portion, I initially thought it was a PuzzleBox as the sliding panel appeared completely hidden!


Here's Eric's description from Cubicdissection:


“This collaboration is one I've been looking forward to for a while. Darryl designed this excellent 12 piece set, with pieces precision machined in either brass or aluminum by Bryan and contained inside a precision-crafted box by Eric Fuller.  


Darryl describes the burr set below: 


"In the 1970s, Bill Cutler published a complete summary of the solid 6-piece burrs that could be formed from "notchable" pieces. He presented a set of 42 pieces that would make all 314 solid, notchable puzzles. I wanted a smaller set. One that was easy to make (notchable) and also allows enough interesting puzzles to guide a user through puzzles of increasing difficulty. I call this set "DDD" for "Darryl's Dense Dozen" (or to my kids, "Dad's Dense Dozen). The set is "dense" in that it makes a lot of puzzles:

There are 24 solid puzzles

There are 530 total puzzles (the additional 506 have empty hidden holes)

There are 42 puzzles with only one solution.

 

PDF directions for DDD Burr Set can be found here. The Burrtools file for the complete set can be found here. PuzzleMad has written a very fine blog review of this puzzle.

151 Total copies available for sale, each signed and dated. 75 copies in Brass/ Leopardwood, 76 copies in Aluminum/ Padauk. This puzzle is shipped disassembled”







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