The Woodshop Shed

Ride 'em Cowboys.

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


Boy and Girls,For those that may have noticed an absence of my so called ”contributions” I'm ba-ack, and for those that haven't or don't care tough!Been diagnosed with a pinched nerve in my back beside the excruciating pain in my left shoulder blade for the first week, it has somewhat desisted in persecuting me and now persisting as an inconvenient continual ache the clincher was that I lost about 60-70% use of my left arm. Being my drinking arm, I realised I had to get pissed to logon to LJ, hence my prolonged absence. Don't be intimidated, my neurologist's appointment is still 1 month away.Not being game to venture down to the workshop, I found that my laser room was not out of bounds and I did some internet searching for some inspiration. As I have recently managed to sit upright at my computer for more than a few minutes, came up with something much to my anticipated adverse pottzy reaction as this is another puzzle to rattle his chain and other people's brain.Consequently it was time to get back on the horse pun intendedThis puzzle is based on the famous Trick Donkeys invented by Sam Loyd in 1858. The object of this puzzle is to rearrange the three pieces so that the riders appear to be riding the donkeys (horses).

It has been modernised to a pair of bucking broncos and two shoot from the hip cowboys

hence the chaps.Downloaded from the internet, the design eventually made the transition to MDF with the assistance of CorelDraw, my laser and some vino induced programming,

I package these into baggies with some basic instructions, gallery picture #5, to be included in my swag of puzzles to be given away as freebies to any tragic that happens to walk across my path,
I have not provided the solution here, however, all can be downloaded from here...
Files available:-

• Trick Donkey (A4 cutouts).pdf – Paper cutouts in case you don't own a laser/CNC.
• Trick Donkey (Laserable).pdf – Laser engravable with red-hairline borders for cutting.
• Trick Donkey (Solution).pdf – Baggie solution (folded in half) if you mass produce.
  
• Tricky Donkey (Sketchup Solution).mp4 – Sketchup solution animation.

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