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TomZ
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Post subject: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:19 am
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Joined: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:47 am
Website: http://www.tomvanderzanden.nl
Location: near Utrecht, Netherlands
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Telow
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:41 am
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Joined: Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:54 pm
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Awesome! I really like the idea and the finished puzzle!
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Andreas Nortmann
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:45 am
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Location: Koblenz, Germany
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Awesome, insane, cool, ... (more words stating disbelief)
and good images. Thank you.
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Frank Tiex
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:31 pm
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Joined: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:17 am
Website: http://www.tiex.de
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
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Gus
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:48 pm
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Joined: Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:00 am
Location: UK
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Every $0££!n% time I decide on my next Shapeways puzzle and start saving, another great puzzle comes along. I'm going to have to stop visiting this forum until I actually buy it.
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Darren Grewe
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:32 pm
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Joined: Sat Apr 22, 2000 2:51 am
Website: http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/cm-view.cgi?mid=68
Location: New Ulm, Minnesota, USA
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How did you get it so black? I always thought it would come out a grey color.
_________________ Darren & Traiphum's Dual Helicoptrahedron
X-TownCuber wrote:Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this the coolest puzzle ever?
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Brandon Enright
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:41 pm
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Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:54 pm
Website: http://www.brandonenright.net
Location: Bay Area, California
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Darren Grewe wrote:How did you get it so black? I always thought it would come out a grey color.
Actually I didn't do such a great job of dyeing this. Click on an image to get the full resolution and then look at the tips of the triangles and you'll see that they're a slightly lighter reddish color. I needed to boil them for longer. I noticed the poor dyeing during assembly but by that point I didn't want to go back and dye them again because of the work involved and they'd lose more shine.
I re-use a dye bath. I don't know what the concentration is now because I've died so many puzzles with it but I've put about 10 Rit dye packs in it. Parts boiled in it for ~2 hours it get very black no matter how smooth they started out going in. The only disadvantage to boiling this long is that the parts lose some of their reflective shine that the porcelain spheres give them.
Edit: here is an edited and highly exaggerated example of what I mean:
_________________ Twisty Renderer -- Jaap's Spheres with POV-Ray
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Beans
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:24 pm
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Joined: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:07 pm
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Amazing! I've always been a fan of the helicopter cube variants. Could you do the same thing with a heli+2x2?
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Brandon Enright
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:28 pm
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Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:54 pm
Website: http://www.brandonenright.net
Location: Bay Area, California
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Beans wrote:Amazing! I've always been a fan of the helicopter cube variants. Could you do the same thing with a heli+2x2?
Yeah you can unbandage the Helicopter cuts on a 2x2x2 + Helicopter Cube too.
I think Eric has a good 2x2x2 + HC design but I'm not sure if it's shop-ready or not. Maybe he'll unbandage it and sell it
_________________ Twisty Renderer -- Jaap's Spheres with POV-Ray
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Uiqoo
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:49 pm
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Joined: Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:50 pm
Location: Seoul, Korea
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God. This is Beautiful, Mad! I can't believe my eyes.
_________________ Jubeat
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misterchris
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Post subject: Re: Unbandaged Helicopter Skewb
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:45 am
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Joined: Sat May 19, 2012 7:16 am
Location: Switzerland
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Realy nice puzzle I love how it jumbles!
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