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Puzzle table update
🕑 Added 2021-09-13 17:26:12 +0000 UTCHere's a photo that sums up my week pretty well! Just a messy pile of random stuff, with a puppy on top.
I've just been working on getting this puzzle table across the line, but it has felt a bit like shaving my legs with a lawn mower: slow and really not wanting to fuck up. But I'm aiming to have the video done by next week! The one about the puzzle table, not me opening some garden tool spa.
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Kathrin Leppek
So good, Simone! Congrats! As a professional problem-solver I enjoyed to see/related to all the troubleshooting up to the finish line. But what a monstrous amount of work for your one-woman-show. More like a patent-and-move-on and I’ll-enjoy-my-one-of-a-kind-table situation? So impressive you pulled it off from idea to functioning product!
Kotako
This looks amazing! I would love having it as my work table so I could hide my mess quickly
Amy Soden
I love it! I just ordered the jasper table for this very reason. Here's to many puzzles in our future!
Björn Kvarnström
Looks like a good height!
Eliot R. Brown
Just looked into the past-- I think I see how you went awry... The tambours I've fooled with had much thinner slats and were mounted on fabric. The whole width frabric. I still think plastic runners would help too.
Eliot R. Brown
Very clever! Maybe plastic ends of the slats fitting into a plastic runner... (nylon or delrin). I think you can use soap to lubricate sliding wood. The lifting table insert is the most clever.
neal richard
First - I both like, and shudder at, your "shaving one's legs with a lawnmower!" Second - while I see in other comments you say this wouldn't be a commercial item, would you consider making plans available to us here on Patreon, for those of us crazy enough to want to duplicate it?
Bob
Just don’t absently start another puzzle on it while it’s closed.
Steve Houghtaling
I love the puzzle table. I remember the days of puzzles laying siege for days to my kitchen table while I ate my dinner off of a little card table in the living room.
Anders Schröder
I feel like this legit is your most commercially viable idea yet. If it's possible to somehow scale up the production of this thing at a reasonable price, I think a lot of people, myself included, would love to have a way to quickly clean to table without actually having to clean the table.
Ferdinand
Neat! Could you please expand that to 10 memory slots that can be used to let piles of stuff disappear and appear at will? The tenth slot could conveniently contain another copy of that table on top. Please, this would be sooo helpful! Several imaginable collaboration partners come to mind. (Gandalf, Hermione, Agatha Clay, Jesus and family)
Paul Stephens
that is awesome, my family use various types of tables for puzzles but none of them look so great as this one! i love it 😍
Trevor Jones
Damn that’s going to be really cool when it is done! Do you need to crank it or can you also just push it for a faster transformation?
Alicia P.
How big of a puzzle do you think you could do on it? Looks super cool! I'd definitely consider getting one like that.
Frank Forte
That would make a nice gaming table.
Bin Lee
This is amazing! Sorry if I missed this, but do you plan to crowdfund this project, because I'd totally back this!
Michael Soo
The only thing I can add is : I wonder why you didn't use slider pads under the legs to make the table easier to move.
Samuel Estenlund
Najs! Det finns alldeles för få bra lösningar för pusselläggande. Pusselmattor är SÄMST! (för att man inte kan kasa runt bitar på dem utan att allt fastnar i filten och går sönder) Lösningen för mig blev att köpa ett tillräckligt stort hur för att kunna ha ett separat pusselbord uppställt i vardagsrummet när jag har semester.
Don Evans
It's a cool table, and I'm looking forward to the final vid. I loved that you sit, and Scraps is there ... completely smooth ... one motion.
Edgar Ernst
Oh wow, that is such a well thought idea! I am eager to see the build process, because for a noob like me this seems like a ton of work constructionwise and regarding solving difficulties during the build. Thanks for the preview, Simone. Much appreciated.🙂
Jackie S
i love this! and if you ever need to do a quick cleanup of the dinner table, you could just put a bin at the end and then turn the handle so everything on top will fall into the bin like coming off of a conveyor belt!
Michael Lee
Very cool. I really like how it raises up so you don't have to reach down to grab the puzzle pieces. And apparently it also works as a gaming table! I love Codenames!
Jon Bright
Table looks great. My question's more: how did the puppy get up there?
MrJan
That is the most awesome table ever. When done, you should make a fake ad again, ending with “Puzzla, available nowhere”
J-Mo
Oh good, you got the puzzle(s). I hope you like em'!
Aaron Olson
Oh, wow, that's so cool!!! My family loves to work on puzzles, and it kinda shuts down the living room with a big folding table in the middle of everything for a couple days if we're working on a big one. Looking forward to your build video so I have a guide on my next coffee table!
Jack Fair
We trust you. :) <3
Tree Carcass Mangler
Ahh! That makes sense now.
Simone Giertz
Congrats on buying an apartment!! That's huge!
Simone Giertz
Haven't heard about PTF strips, will check it out!
Simone Giertz
I was thinking of making a smaller version of it! But that's for future self. Need to take a break from it for how :)
Simone Giertz
For sure not going to put this table into production! It'd be way too complicated and expensive to make.
Simone Giertz
they just happened to come over for dinner! Was a really good motivator to finish up the last parts of the table, carried it inside the house only a couple of minutes before they got here
Simone Giertz
excited to see it!
Sorenkoelbaek
I (or maybe more my dog) can relate to that chair! - also, awesome table! I have a similar project coming up, but my solution is really different ;)
NGravey
Oooh colab with E&K coming??
Brooks Moses
A puppy on top makes everything better. :)
Matt Grommes
The demo gods never let things go right the first time you show something off. :) That looks really awesome though, nice job!
Tree Carcass Mangler
This is very cool! But I feel like I missed an update - somehow I didn't realize you were working on a puzzle table. Anyway its great!
Tree Carcass Mangler
Regarding filing a flat spot on the axle/rod, hopefully there's a manfacturer who sells rods that already have flat spots in appropriate places (or maybe an old fashioned key & keyway arrangement) You wouldn't want to have to file those spots individually during production.
Daniel
You could fill the inside with dry ice for an even more dramatic reveal! ;-)
Emily M
How cool! I want a coffee table version haha
Adam West
Looks really cool! I love the crank handles! Was winding when they would be for when I saw your post of playing with your new lathe, lathe’s are so much fun! Just a thought, thine PTF strips on the runner surface would reduce friction and make it smoother.
Gabriel Ralls
This is awesome. I'm currently buying a place and looking at every piece of furniture with "this would be cool in my new flat" but, This Would Be So Cool in My New Flat.
Cate McCleery
I need a table like this!! It's so hard to puzzle(or play long board games)with kids and have a place to eat dinner. absolutely love this table!
Jesse S
…probs not tho
Paul Kinzer
I bow down before your efforts! I spent the summer on a bunch of different projects, from home repairs to telescope making. Lots of work, but also lots of mistakes, head-scratching, and re-dos. But if I had also been filming it, and knew that I would eventually have to not just finish the projects, but then edit the video? AAARGH! You are amazing.
James Morehead
Love the concept! My younger daughter is an avid puzzler (puzzlist?) and puzzles are always taking over a table or temporary folding tables... and it would be so cool to have a table that can be a dining table AND a puzzle table at the same time. So very cool! I hope this becomes a product someday or at least an open-sourced design! Here's a puzzle-themed poem from my book "canvas: poems" (cover art: Kari Byron) you likely relate to! pieces by James Morehead (from "canvas: poems") we’ve taken over the dining room table its white plastic protector perfect for sliding silhouetted pieces into place 1000 image fragments dumped out between us in a jumble of curlicued edges i balance the box lid on edge to be our guide: a photographed row of colorful townhouses lining a canal that reminds me of san francisco’s painted ladies you chose this puzzle with infinite blue claiming you see subtle differences in the shades of sky; my aging eyes see only sameness (you’ve always been a puzzle lover – or is it puzzler or puzzlist? – a new box appearing each christmas under the tree; later warmed by a crackling fire we crowd around the table with my mother taking the lead) we start by finding edges to corral the pieces and prevent them sneaking back into the box or falling lost forever beneath a cupboard burrowed in dust next we divide and conquer: i build the row of townhouses while you tackle that infinite blue each piece connected triggering a dose of pleasure fueling the search for another hit for every piece i place you place ten and i marvel at your skill mapping the image in your mind while effortlessly untangling the jumbled stacks of color at some point you’ll remark what’s the point of puzzles anyway why chop up an image just to put it back together again we’ll leave the question hanging like we do every year inevitably visitors stop by oh wow look how much you’ve done some will offer a helping hand connecting a piece or two before quietly slipping away searching for pieces i imagine strolling along the canal memorizing each detail as i go pausing by the shuttered windows and for a time transported (perhaps couples should complete a puzzle of their partner’s image to rediscover subtle details forgotten years ago) as we cross midnight our eyes watering i wonder who lives inside these colorful townhouses? who sails the boats anchored in the canal outside? were they sleeping when the photo was taken? or waking awaiting breakfast? or perhaps trapped behind the shutters suspended in time? in the silence of early morning after hours of just one more piece only one piece remains; without fanfare you complete the puzzle and calmly announce dad let’s start the next one
Jesse S
Oh Obviously. The options are pretty endless. Could also be how you introduce the new baby to the older brother/sister!
Simone Giertz
Yeah I'd definitely need a very good reason to make a second version. Not saying it couldn't happen! But even just the material was so expensive 😅
Simone Giertz
Oh wow. That's an awesome idea. Could rent it out for gender reveal parties too. *rolls back tambour* "IT'S A GIRL"
Russell Peake
An option - if there is a need for extra force in some parts would be a 'push pull' like gear change for high and low speed - but that does add complexity and more moving parts
LangeManGlenn
Or my grandpa for that matter 🤔
Simone Giertz
Thank you!! I'm really trying to make things properly, but it just takes soooo much time. Have almost 10 hours of footage for this video, and I've only been filming a tiny fraction of the work.
Stephen Hager
That's understandable. Looks great!
LangeManGlenn
My mum and sister could use this. They've been puzzling a lot lately.
Simone Giertz
I've been considering LockTite, but I'm hesitant to glue stuff in place in case I need to take everything apart and service it. But easy to add down the line if it keeps on acting up!
Jim S
Very cool!
Simone Giertz
Yeah, Stu (the engineer who helped with the design) and I played around with different rations, but I also didn't want to have to make 10000 turns on the crank to move the tambour. It's at a pretty happy medium right now!
Dennis Weddig
I love the idea and design! I definitely think you should consider it version 1.0 and iterate for better versions down the road. I say that, of course, as someone NOT having to do all the work. 😝
Simone Giertz
You can clean them out when they go over the bend! Definitely needed to do that while sanding.
Jesse S
Looks amazing! The brass handles are beaut. Also I think you should hide a dessert spread in the puzzle section and have people over for dinner - just for the reveal after you eat.
Russell Peake
I also needed to file a flat on the rod - but it was a hardened steel drive shaft, and I didn't have files strong enough to make the flat. It also turned out the flexibility of the gantry was too high anyway - so I have been upgrading it (for about the last 4 years... With limited progress)
Maks Zolin
Don't skip LockTite on set screws. Very important to future sanity. Especially if they are hard /impossible to reach.
Stephen Hager
The table looks really good! Have you considered adding a gear reduction to the crank mechanism to reduce the force required to operate it?
Taylor Bell
Excited to see the final product! I'd worry that crumbs would get in all the cracks and make the table hard to clean...
Paul Kinzer
Love it! I'm not into puzzles at all, but I really like problem-solving. This is so well done.
Simone Giertz
thanks for seeing through its temporary flaws 🥲
Simone Giertz
I just need to file a flat on the rod! Will be an easy fix. Need to take out the whole table to finish sanding and coating it too.
Anton Dahlström
Superb idea; great execution of vision. (just some tweaking left) I WANT ONE!
Russell Peake
Set screw slippage was the bane of my first DIY CNC machine
