Hey everybody,

I just finished my copy of Tony Fisher's Mental Block. I have been working on this on and off for about 2 months now and I am very pleased with the result.



Size comparison with a 3x3:



It was made by extending a skewb with 3mm ABS sheet, cut with scissors. The sheet was glued onto the skewb with hot glue and gaps were filled with black Milliput.

I cannot tell you how many times I filled, then sanded, then painted, the gaps on this puzzle. I estimate about 20 hours total build time, if I had taken my time early in the build it probably would have been around 3 hours.

Puzzle was spray painted with brown primer, then 2 coats of black gloss and a coat of silicone spray.

Stickers were hand cut from Cubesmith Oracal Vinyl and superglued on. This took about 2 hours.

Turning is good, but it is just a little loose and pops a bit, maybe once every 3 solves.

Video soon. Maybe.

Credit goes to Tony for the idea, thank you for the inspiration.

This puzzle build was great practice for what I hope to be a prosperous future in puzzles, it's my new favorite. While my skill is limited, I am getting better (Only my 2nd mod)

I will not be selling this puzzle because it is my baby, and also because it is against Tony's rules. But I wouldn't sell it anyway.

Thanks for looking,
Adam

PS. Scrambled pic, its not too hard to solve:

looks great! congratulations

very nice ,i like it

Nice.
Best way to cut plastic sheet is with a sharp craft knife and steel rule. Score it 3 or 4 times and then snap it. That way you can get it pretty accurate and virtually no filling is required.

Thanks for the nice comments everyone!

And Tony, thanks for the advice! I can use all the advice I can get.

Unfortunoutely my plastic sheeting came in the wrong size (I ordered 1 mm and i got 3 mm) and I found I couldn't cut it with an Xacto knife, so I used kitchen shears

Needless to say that didn't work very well and it resulted in a very low quality puzzle, which required hours upon hours of cleanup to get to a good quality one.

In the future, I hope to get a lot better at plastic sheet cutting, as my first experience was not so great.

Now I need to get a trusty craft knife too..... like that orange one that is in every single one of Tony's building videos

Thanks again,
Adam

Not bad at all for one of your first plastic sheet mods. Keep it up.

Nice work!

i have a question :where did you buy the abs plastic sheets ?

it look's nice! good job!