In 21 th century inspiration comes sometimes with google image search. Before 1-2 months ago I was looking for a wooden olive oil press for making a small scale model in a bottle. I saw an antique book press sold in an auction. The drawer of the book press inspired me for designing this book press puzzle.
I call this puzzle “The secret of binders”. Because I have a story about a binding master of the royal library that build this press with a secret drawer for protecting his golden sheets used for book ornaments. I like puzzles with stories like Sam Loyd puzzles.
If you don’t say anything, this puzzle looks like a small scale model. After learning it’s very easy to guess where is the secret box. But finding how to open it isn’t so easy. For opening the box you must solve three different puzzles. Puzzles aren’t difficult to solve for puzzle enthusiasts but there are some nice surprises and also there are some wrong road signs for solution.
This puzzle is a small size model of the original. The overall dimension are about 92x170x250 mm. For me, finding the right material for puzzle craft is more difficult than all puzzles. I designed this puzzles according to my materials and made some small changes according to my workshop capabilities. The most difficult challenge was finding a small knob for drawer. I used mahogany and beech. For the book cover I used padauk. And in the inside of the book I used olive. Olive texture looks like a real old paper.My blog followers know the source of olive and padauk from my old projects.
If you like to play with this puzzle you must make one copy for you. If you like make your own book press puzzle you can download this free PDf files including building plans, drawings and craft tips. This files include also a lot of photo.
Secret of binders puzzle box plans (0.6 MB on secure server box.com)
Secret of binders craft tips and more photos (2.4 MB on secure server box.com)
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