After my failure of my Burr Knot Puzzle I looked around for a puzzle. I found one and got the maze part cut out this afternoon. I need to cut a piece of plexiglass for the cover. I will likely do that tonight. I have to see what O bit I have, I have one, and edit the program.
I cut it out of plywood and may remake it in solid wood. I designed it for a .375" steel ball I got at Ace Hardware.
Will post my finished project later. I have to decide what to finish it with. Likely Watco Danish Oil.
That reminded me of a website that will generate mazes for you, and you can change the parameters to make it simple or difficult. You can generate circular, rectangular, triangular or hexagonal mazes.
But the cool thing was that it was in a huge list of neat little websites that someone curated. And I believe our own @WillAdams posted it at one point in the past.
Wow it feels good to get something finished. I cut the plexiglass with a Frued 1/8" O flute bit. I just looked in the C3D database and found an Amana 1/8" O flute bit and used that in my tool path instead of creating a custom tool. The Frued cut fine and I did not have any pan head #6 screws so I used flat head ones. Not sure if I will put finish on this as it was an experiment to see if it worked. I will glue up some solid wood panels and make it again. I first put 1 steel ball in and quickly solved the maze. However I put 4 steel balls in and it becomes much harder to get all 4 balls to the center. I will take this one to our Friday Woodturners Meeting and give it someone to give to their kids/grandkids. My Grandson is 32 years old so it is too simple for an adult. I have made puzzles for a school in Nacogdoches for Autistic children for Christmas. I might ask them if they want some.
Here are the files if you want to make some yourself. Be sure to review the files and change to your preferences. I used a #251 1/4" downcut bit for the maze. I used a 1/8" O flute for the acrylic. These were created in CC v8 838
round_maze.c2d (428 KB)
acrylic_round_maze_cover.c2d (600 KB)
I had some film over the plexiglass. I left it on and used painters tape and super glue to hold it down. For those that cut acrylic on a regular basis what is the best method to hold it down? The painters tape and super glue worked well and I use that a lot for wood projects.
IDC woodcraft has a downcut bullnose bit that works well for mazes. I used one to cut the design from CIC.
It was for a cancer awareness auction and I spent ages trying to incorporate the cancer ribbon into the maze. Eventually I gave up and used my laser to cut the acrylic top and inlayed a different color of translucent acrylic for the ribbon logo. It took quite a few tries to get the cut sizes right for a press fit.
That is quite a list of SVG tools. It’s a gold mine. Thank you !
The actual links are world wide, so be careful.
I saw some Single Line Font resources ( not all free ).
