Wednesday 30 January 2013

New Designs Revealed

It's a new year at Wood Lock Plans, full of exciting new designs to come online in the coming months.  It's been a rough go the last few months with website issues and all, damn, just so much to take in and learn.  I thought this was going to be easier, lol.

To make it easier to try out one of these designs, "Nips" has a new price of $1.  Not a bad way to try out a locking system and expand your woodworking skills.

Here are two new designs to be added to the Store.

The "Booze Bank" was inspired by a friend at work one snowy December Eve while she was reveling in her thoughts as she mulled over Christmas present ideas for her father.  Traditionally, there have been other types of "locked bottle" puzzles mainly rope and ball types and closed boxes.  This "6 moves to open" design can be altered to fit any bottle of your choice. The code to open the locked box is found somewhere on the bottle.  Easy enough?  Now you just have to figure out how to enter the code into the locking system.  Depending on your experience, the average woodworker could likely have this built in 5 - 7 hrs.

 
As I scratched my head and looked around at what else I could lock up, I came across the Skull Vodka bottle.  Intriguing it was, and so over my Christmas Holidays, tucked away in the shop while everyone else was having a turkey nap, I found a few stray hours here and there to come up with this fairly difficult to open puzzle box simply called "Skull".  The code to open this locked box is also found on the bottle.  Many have thought the code was Skull, or Vodka, all good guesses but not the correct one.  Curious?  This puzzle box would take a little longer to build if you chose to build up your side panels like I did here.  Otherwise, the average woodworker could likely build this in 8-10 hrs.

There are more great projects on the way, so see ya soon. 

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