TicToc - Andrew Crowell

This puzzle is crafted by Andrew before he turned his attention to printing his puzzle designs.  This is one of three that I recently acquired.

Be sure to visit Andrew Crowell’s Etsy shop arcWood Puzzles to see his 3D prints that are available!

Here’s Andrew’s original description: from his Etsy listing: 

“TicToc is fun puzzle design which requires 12 moves to free the first piece, and includes one rotation in the full 18 step solution. My puzzle building program designed this puzzle.

Note, the puzzle can come apart into two halves around 9 steps into the solution. It still takes 12 steps to free the first piece though.

This puzzle is my first of a series in which I'm looking for rotational puzzles which also require a number of steps to free the first piece. I have come across a number of rotational puzzles in which the first or even first few pieces come right out of the puzzle... The program I wrote has already designed several other puzzles (that I haven't yet built) which require both multiple moves to free the first piece and multiple rotations...”

Woods are Leopardwood, Zebrawood, Wenge and Maple