1000 Sharks

This is my 1000th laser cut item. It's nearly my fifth blog anniversary and I wanted to make something epic so I built this shark tank a...

Cryptex Ring

I set out this evening to make a cryptex , it was fairly ambitious given that I also had to pack for New York. Instead all I managed to achi...

Wavy Bowl

I made some bowls before but I lost some of them at the Newcastle Maker Faire this year, as I'm bringing my 'A' game to New Y...

Church Window 2

I made a church window a long time ago and I was never very happy with the way some of the layers were offset. The perfectionist in me alwa...

200 Sharks

I'll be attending the New York Maker Faire  this weekend coming. I'm taking as many items and kits as I can possibly manage but I al...

Shark Kits

I have combined all my tips and tricks for making a good kit into this one new design now available for sale in my store . You've seen t...

Celtic Knot Tray Puzzle

I used the patterns from these celtic knot dice  to create myself a piece of knotwork. The knot was then split into lots of pieces, alternat...

Jigsaw Puzzle

Jigsaw puzzles are such a simple thing to laser cut I'm surprised I hadn't done one before. I took the vector artwork from Wikimedia...

Sliding Block Puzzle

The sliding block puzzle was invented in the 1880s with the fifteen puzzle which simply had the numbers 1-15 on the blocks. My homage to th...

Entanglement Puzzle 3

The aim of this final puzzle is to remove the ring from the column. ( svg here ) While I was making puzzles I took the opportunity to remake...

Entanglement Puzzle 2

In this puzzle you have to get the ring from one side of the puzzle to the other. I probably should have marked the arms differently to make...

Entanglement Puzzle 1

I made this simple little entanglement puzzle, they seem to appear around Christmas time and with some craft fairs coming up I was wondering...

Burr Puzzle

This simple burr puzzle is cut from 9mm poplar (mostly because I couldn't find my 10mm perspex. It is made from 12 identical pieces but ...