Gear Ball

Vadim · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:31 pm

Hi,
That's what you get, when you turn gear cube into a ball.
I was just interested to see if it was possible.
I like the way edges and corners turned out hollow patterns.
I would like to keep them that way, so it might take me a while to sticker them properly.
Vadim

Luke · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:33 pm

Very cool. This is one of the few puzzles that I like when it's not finished. :lol:

RubixFreakGreg · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:45 pm

Nice, I like it unfinished

- Greg

clauswe · **Joined:** Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:05 am

Nice.

I made a lot of this mods 2 weeks ago: http://www.youtube.com/user/clauswe1?blend=21&ob=5#p/u/0/ET7VqOZnupY

Monopoly · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:09 pm

Looks very artistic! You should just polish and sticker on that surface. The gears will even show orientation! :lol:

Luke · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:38 pm

This puzzle would look incredible if it had SmaZ like Dino Cylinder stickers on it. Food for thought.

X-TownCuber · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:37 pm

SWEET! I love the hollow patterns the pieces make! I also like how you can see the round symmetry of the geared edges.

RyanA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:48 pm

Wow, it looks flawless. Congratulations on making such a perfect looking puzzle by hand!

I agree with Luke, it does look good even without stickers.

Ryan

katsmom · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:50 pm

Very pretty. How do you guys make it so round just by eyeballing it? I am amazed by the skill involved!

cjgerik · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:08 pm

katsmom wrote:

Very pretty. How do you guys make it so round just by eyeballing it? I am amazed by the skill involved!

I second that! This is incredible. I've always liked the "flat" circular gears much more than those that are bent between two different planes, like the standard gearcube edges. I most likely would buy a gear cube ball (if produced) before a cube, due to this. Absolutely beautiful!

Chris

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:05 pm

I just had a visual of a bowling ball which hits all bottles, and then
puts back the bottles in place to prepre them for the next round
without the usage of any other external help!

Excellent mod!

Pantazis

Zhewei · **Joined:** Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:38 pm

Wow, it looks awesome!
Quick question, it looks like you had to trim the screws in the edge pieces, or am I mistaken?

Aleksey · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:49 am

It's beautiful!

How did you make such a uniform and perfect ball???

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:58 am

I like especially the corner pieces.
Very nice.

Vadim · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:42 pm

Thanks all!

I cut the edges with screws off first, then all the corners with my hacksaw.
Then it was dremmel job and then cone-shaped sandpaper.
I shaved off some of my nails in the process, and covered furniture with plastic dust.
Apart from that I was pleased with result.

Vadim

Sigurd · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:56 pm

although I am really impressed with your work, I would like to remid you that "New Puzzles" is only for finished puzzles.
This belongs in the building section

Luke · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:00 pm

Sigurd wrote:

although I am really impressed with your work, I would like to remid you that "New Puzzles" is only for finished puzzles.
This belongs in the building section

This is finished. It's designed to look like this.

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Aleksey wrote:

It's beautiful!

How did you make such a uniform and perfect ball???

It is actually far easy to make a spherical puzzle than a spherical piece of wood for example. I can't speak for Vadim but on my puzzles I just keep Dremelling, scrambling the puzzle, Dremelling, scrambling the puzzle etc. Each new scramble reveals some high points which are then removed. The puzzle itself is always showing you where to Dremel.

chris_joe · **Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:28 am

Incredible! Great work as usual Vadim.

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