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Hello, my name is Rolando, I am a hobbist puzzlemaker from Italy. Mainly I make replicas of famous puzzlemakers or mathematicians (Stewart Coffin, Philippe Dubois, George Hart, Rinus Roelofs) puzzles, but in some cases I develop my own designs. In case of your replies please use a simple English  I am sure I will learn many things from you in these wonderful forums Thank you.  http://www.cubicdissection.com/temp/rolando1.jpg http://www.cubicdissection.com/temp/rolando2.jpg http://www.cubicdissection.com/temp/rolando3.jpg(edited by Eric to show the pictures better since they were hard to see in the attachment style) |
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2009, 06:11:07 AM » |
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Welcome Rolando, I love your work. You must email me and tell me which are your own designs. I like polyhedras, mines not as good as yours. Thanks for the pics
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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2009, 06:33:43 AM » |
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Welcome Rolando, I love your work. You must email me and tell me which are your own designs. I like polyhedras, mines not as good as yours. Thanks for the pics
Thank you Stephen. One is "hyperball" which actually is not a puzzle and was a joint idea among several users of an italian woodworkers forum (il-legno), it is on the bottom-right of the first pic. Hyper.. from hyperbolic paraboloid the surfaces described by the wires. Another one is "Beveled-Cube-Blossom" a modified version of the well-known Blossom puzzle from Bernhard Wiezorke. It is at the centre of the first row of the first image. The assembling way is nice! Yet another is the icosian game, the Hamiltonian path on the 12hedron: 20 identical pieces and 10 alluminiun dowels. It is top-right of the second pic. Another one: 4 hexagons, 24 pieces, 48 magnets, top left of the second image. Thanks for your kind welcome. |
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2009, 09:04:14 AM » |
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Wow Rolando Fantastic!!! Hyper caught my eye right away, very cool structure. Your work is beautiful. Do you have a website with your puzzles on display? Thanks for the great pictures!
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2009, 09:23:04 AM » |
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buon giorno Rolando great puzzle news that we have now in italy also a good maker and designer; you can tell me your adress private, because I`m sometimes in Italy and may be we could meet us together; if you are interested have a look at my website www.puzzlewood.detanti auguri per te Bernhard |
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2009, 10:33:24 AM » |
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Hello Rolando and welcome to the forum. Your work is just beautiful! How long have you been woodworking, and how long making puzzles?
EDIT: I changed the pictures for you with regular hosting instead of attachments so you can see them better...clicking the link below each picture pops it into a new page, fullsize.
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« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2009, 10:40:40 AM » |
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Ronaldo - excusite craftmanship. I thik that we will be learning from you, and not the other way around.
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« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2009, 01:23:15 PM » |
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Thanks so much to you all.
Peter: No, I have not a website yet but I am planning to do it soon.
Bernhard: Guten tag Bernhard, I already know your wonderful website, I will send you my address by email, I live in the very north of Italy not too far from Germany. You will be wellcome!
Eric: I am a bad woodworker, working in a garage with hobbyist tools. Hope to improve my "lab" in the future. I am making puzzles since 2005 (about, actually I do not remember exactly)
Robert: I know the great puzzlemakers who are contributing here, not comparable to myself.
Thank you again (also for having reformatted the images)
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2009, 05:57:03 PM » |
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I couldn't pick a puzzle, because they are all very nice
You do good work, much better than my polyherdas
Keep it up
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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2009, 07:02:13 PM » |
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Wow!!!!!!! Not off topic that's coooooooool! Looking at puzzles in 3D!, What a great idea! The mirror trick worked perfectly!!! Thanks for that! Very neat!
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« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2009, 07:10:44 PM » |
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Rolando,
We would love to see some pictures of your workshop if you have the time. I think the tools and philosophy of woodworking is probably different from here in the US, and we could maybe learn a lot.
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« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2009, 09:41:37 PM » |
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Hey I work out of a small garage too. It is not the size of the shop, it is the motion of the tools.
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2009, 06:09:26 AM » |
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I work off a 3 x 3 foot space in the garage and in the garden on the lathe.
Think positive , and you will fluke one. So far so good, it works for me
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2009, 06:31:53 AM » |
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You do good work, much better than my polyherdas
Thank you but I am sure you are exaggerating. Have you a link where I can see your polyhedra? I am very interested. EDIT: PS further info (but in italian) and pics about my work may be found in the woodworker forum il-legno (the wood) http://forum.il-legno.it/index.php in which I have also the role of moderator, particularly in the section Il DivertiLegno (The fun_of_wood) http://forum.il-legno.it/viewforum.php?f=82. To read some of the sections and to see attached images you may need to be registered. |
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