Hand-made Titanium 3x3 Cube with Heart & Blood (Sold ! Thx!)

excalvin · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:52 pm

Hand-made Titanium 3x3x3 Cube with Heart & Blood (only One in the World)

Size : 56X56X56 mm
Weight : 605 g
with "Three-character scripture" on 6 faces

This is a Hand-made Titanium 3x3x3 Cube which is designed and built by a China puzzle inventor, by hand and simple machine for around 1 year.

We seldom use Titanium for cubes as it is expensive and hard to polish. So far, it is the only one being made in the cubes history. Actually, this is can be record, a hand-made Titanium 3x3x3 cube. This can be the most valuable and limited 3x3x3 cube in your collection cabinet.

Edge Polishing Video :
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTc1MTk4OTc2.html
Demo Video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE-Bd4-BNeI

The China inventor wanna sell this one as having finicial difficulty. If anyone wanna get it, please contact me at calvinfan@hknowstore.com .

PS: The material cost is around 10K RMB, ~ 1.55K USD.

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Selling at HK Now Store :
http://www.hknowstore.com/locale/en-US/ ... 10166ef169

katsmom · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:52 pm

If this is the one I think it is, it is very well made. Expensive, but well made. (Matt has a friend....)

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:47 am

Can you post more images before this beautiful creation is sold?

excalvin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:58 am

Sure, see below,
Chinene Literature , "Three-character scripture", on 6 faces

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Gus · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:26 am

Beautiful craftsmanship

Horrible price :shock:

This is one for Clause I guess.

Monopoly · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:28 am

would it be a bad suggestion to add red ink to the grooves?

the puzzle is beautiful.

wwwmwww · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:17 am

excalvin wrote:

Sure, see below,
Chinene Literature , "Three-character scripture", on 6 faces

BEAU-TEE-FULL!!!!! I'm in love. If the seller would entertain something like monthly payments for a year I'd be seriously tempted to go after this. PM me if that's an option. Only problem... which wouldn't stop me... is I can't read Chinese. I'd have no idea when it was solved. Could someone translate what each face says when solved? Not sure what "Three-character scripture" means.

Carl

P.S. A few questions...

(1) Does this come with 13 edges, 7 face centers, and 9 corners? Looks like that's what I count in one of the pictures above.
(2) Are the cubie proportional? In a few pictures it appears the face centers are larger then the corners.

excalvin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:25 am

Monopoly wrote:

would it be a bad suggestion to add red ink to the grooves?
the puzzle is beautiful.

will it looks good if add red ink to the grooves?

wwwmwww wrote:

excalvin wrote:

Sure, see below,
Chinene Literature , "Three-character scripture", on 6 faces

BEAU-TEE-FULL!!!!! I'm in love. If the seller would entertain something like monthly payments for a year I'd be seriously tempted to go after this. PM me if that's an option.

Thanks for your interest. I shall check with the inventor and update you later.

wwwmwww wrote:

[ Only problem... which wouldn't stop me... is I can't read Chinese. I'd have no idea when it was solved. Could someone translate what each face says when solved? Not sure what "Three-character scripture" means.

The photo of the 6 faces are in solved status.
"Three-character scripture" is a kind of Chinese poem, slang, spirit of knowledge, a sentence of 3 words but having high spirit of Chinese knowledge.
For example, 性本善 meansthat the Basic Human Nature is Kindness.
We have an old story to proof this saying. A robber go to a village to rob an old man one day at daytime. When he was a child playing on the mouth of a well and is going to fall down the well soon, he stop his robbery, throw away his weapon and run over to save the child instead.

wwwmwww wrote:

P.S. A few questions...
(1) Does this come with 13 edges, 7 face centers, and 9 corners? Looks like that's what I count in one of the pictures above.

Should be as what you see in the photo, I check with the inventor and update you.

wwwmwww wrote:

(2) Are the cubie proportional? In a few pictures it appears the face centers are larger then the corners.

I check with the inventor and update you.

excalvin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:34 am

More photo as below,

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excalvin · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:22 am

wwwmwww wrote:

P.S. A few questions...
(1) Does this come with 13 edges, 7 face centers, and 9 corners? Looks like that's what I count in one of the pictures above.

Yes, you are right.
The inventor will provide 1 spare edge, 1 spare face center and 1 spare corner as photo. But, these spare parts do not have Chinese Letters engraved.

wwwmwww wrote:

(2) Are the cubie proportional? In a few pictures it appears the face centers are larger then the corners.

Great, you have very good eyes.
The size of the cube is same as Type A IV cubes, detail size as below,
center : 20X20x16 mm
edge : 20X18x18 mm
corner : 18X18X18 mm

Reference Photo as below.

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excalvin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:35 pm

Thanks for you all.
The titanium 3x3 Cube has been sold.

c1829 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:20 pm

How much did it sell for?

excalvin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:52 am

c1829 wrote:

How much did it sell for?

The titanium 3x3 sold at a good price, everyone are happy. ^^

excalvin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:21 pm

The inventor has just made a very nice wooden box

and ready the cube to post, photo as below,

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excalvin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:22 am

More photo with the tools as below,

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KelvinS · **Joined:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:13 pm

It looks a bit fragile.

[/English humour]

PS. Congrats to both buyer and seller.

excalvin · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:24 am

Well packed and to be posted, photo as below,

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Elwyn · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:51 am

Amazing puzzle! I'm sure whoever bought it is going to be rather happy when it arrives.

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