The Woodshop Shed

Sometimes I a maze myself

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


I always wanted to make a wooden maze so I did.The material is lumber core that was salvaged from a Sylvania console stereo that my Dad bought in the early '60s. It's 7/8” thick with a poplar core and mahagony veneer on both sides. The side I cut was the better mahagony side.I cut the maze with a 1/4” cutter at a depth of 5/16”. I actually wanted to use a 5/16” round corner cutter but alas the cupboard was bare. My 1/4” ball bearings did not fit, after all what do you expect when you cut a 1/4” groove. So I searched, Amazon where else, and I found .236” brass ball bearings which fit the grooves without any problem.I expect, my grandkids may want to play with this so I added a 3/16” plexiglass cover, also from Amazon, and mounted it with my four very last four slotted brass screws. I cut a radius, and polished, on the top edge of the plexiglass just to make it softer to the touch.Laying out this first maze itself was not easy but now I have figured out how to do almost any maze. Another thing I learned was that a paper maze is typically smaller because the “wall” thickness is only a broad line and I wanted to keep a minimum 1/4” wall which I did in most cases (the thin walls are visible to the discerning eye)! There are three solutions to this maze and a section that has no entrance or exit (another silly mistake).It was a fun project, kept me out of trouble and busy while being locked up!

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