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Tony Fisher
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Post subject: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:48 am |
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Muffet
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:02 am |
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Joined: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:39 pm Location: Marquette, MI, USA
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When I saw the unboxing video I knew that Tony Fisher would be the only one crazy enough to make a transformation out of this puzzle, and call me crazy but I wanted it to be this. By far one of my favorites, absolutely beautiful puzzle, it really is very curvy. Great job Tony, you never cease to amaze.
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Drake
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:26 am |
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That's so cool :O.
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suteriosu
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:26 am |
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Shenron
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:37 am |
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Very cool Tony. The 3rd picture kinda makes the puzzle look like armor
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Tony Fisher
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:20 am |
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Andreas Nortmann
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:22 am |
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Very simplistic and therefore clever.
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Kapusta
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:25 am |
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Personally, I am not a fan of the Professor Pyraminx with its pillowed look, but this is fantastic. Awesome job! You definitely took advantage of the symmetries of the puzzle. 
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Luke
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:54 am |
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This is awesome! Great work Tony. I would also like to see a version where the truncations meet at an edge. Looking at the photos it would also be cool if they could turn around the Professor Pyraminx edges. 
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RizDub
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:04 pm |
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c1829
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:01 pm |
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I really like it. Great job! Did you have to make the truncations concave or was that just for ascetics?
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alaskajoe
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:48 pm |
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Kapusta wrote: Personally, I am not a fan of the Professor Pyraminx with its pillowed look, but this is fantastic. Awesome job! You definitely took advantage of the symmetries of the puzzle.  AH. I can't keep it to myself. I was waiting for someone to say. "hmm..." But noone does. No I will. I was never a fan of pillowedness to much. It's cool on the 7x7x7. But Especially tetrahedron need to be acurate. I can't even stand the rounded tips on the meffert's pyraminx. BUT the prof pyraminx is one the coolest and best looking awesome awesome puzzles ever (I said awesome two times on purpose) So: What did you do to it?? Ok this puzzle isn't bad and it looks interesting but it's just not as cool as what it was before. Still great work Tony!! Btw I wonder how much of the flourescent sticker stuff you still have. You will probably have that on your custom puzzle forever. 
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pirsquared
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:25 pm |
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Monopoly
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:54 pm |
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Adman234
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:55 pm |
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Looks awesome!
It's great to see more original transformations like this, that is my favorite type of puzzle.
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DLitwin
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:57 am |
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Beautiful, what a great shape!
Dave (I confess I'm a fan of puzzles with concave surfaces...)
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Steryne
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:45 am |
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very neat, I saw tis in your avatar before I found it here.
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MonkeyZ
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:53 pm |
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I really like the look of this puzzle and the stickers look nice, they are the same fluorescent stickers on there already, no?
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Tony Fisher
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:06 pm |
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alaskajoe
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Post subject: Re: Tony Fisher's Curviminx Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:51 am |
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How difficult was it to get rif of the tips? What my actual question is: Are there long screws in it or is most of the stalk just plastic? I also would like to know if the tension can be adjusted without braking the puzzle. Like in a way where you just pop off the caps/small tips and take a screw driver and that's it? Edit: I think it's impossible to adjust tension since I think there are no springs in this mech right? The puzzle doesn't feel like it hase springs and the tips don't wiggle up and down.
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