Comments on: Impossible Objects in Real Life no.3

By: KJ

KJ — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:52:02 +0000

i guess all of you who are still puzzled by the nail through the wood have not read the post by trina. look up mole creek puzzle(nail through the wood puzzle) on google. here is the link http://hard-puzzles.blogspot.com/2008/01/mole-creek-wood-puzzle.html read the post by alan.

his explanation is the best, probably correct, and only answer to the puzzle. he is saying that a small tree is drilled to have a hole that will fit the nail into the tree. then the tree is allowed to grow for several years. by that time the tree will have grown around the nail. then the puzzle maker just has to cut around the nail to make the desired shape of the puzzle.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:39:33 +0000

Here is the solution to the very first wood trick with the screw, nail or pencil through the wood (it is done with all of these).

After research on the web, and searching through pages and pages of forums, I found the answer.

Here is the link so you can read it yourself. It is in Posts #79 and 80. Quite and interesting read to see all the woodworkers trying to figure it out!

Hope this gives some of you more sleep at night!

By: The Oct8pus

The Oct8pus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:22:02 +0000

Damn you wooden puzzle!! I’m sitting here with the Tasmanian screw puzzle, and I can say almost for certain that there IS NO SOLUTION. Whoever built this thing was very smart at covering his tracks, because there’s no way this screw was not bent or the wood wasn’t twisted…no way. If anyone wants to prove me wrong, please do so…I’m dying to figure it out…

By: Scott MaC

Scott MaC — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:49:44 +0000

I actually know how both the ring around wooden arrow and wooden and metal ring are done.

I work in a forge you see,

quite simple the wooden objects will haveeasy peel heat proof covers and a mold will be placed around them (not touching them) and the molten metal will be poured in left to cool. and then the mold is taken off and the easy peel heat proof covers too and there you go you have an amazing little object.

the other one are beyond me though

By: www.com

www.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:32:47 +0000

I hated it

By: aiste

aiste — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:21:12 +0000

the one with the coin and the arrow is soo easy 2 guess !! the coin is wooden, and so is the arrow, so when a person was making the “coin” ande the arrow, he used the same piece of wood for them !! voila !!

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:01:00 +0000

the last one is probably the easiest to execute, technically.
there’s the vertical piece attached to the two pieces attached at a right angle.
at the top of the vertical piece, a notch is cut to accomodate the farthest piece visually.
they glued a cap piece onto the vertical piece to give it a square top…
its probably easier than taking the time to photoshop it…

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:31:00 +0000

Hi all, I have one of these wooden blocks with a pencil through it in front of me – it comes from a shop in New Zealand and is called “the mole creek wood puzzle”. The wood is a solid piece and the units have anything from a nail, a screw/a pencil thorugh it. The instructions when you buy the item state – “wood not steamed/bent or twisted – pencil/screw etc is not cut and joined – wood is one solid piece throughout the process.”

lateral thinking involved.

I cannot figure it out and I have had it for 2 years.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:14:00 +0000

before you insert the screw through the wood soak the wood and squeeze one end flat with a vise. screw in your screw and resoak and let dry. there it is!

By: breadmanpaul

breadmanpaul — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:34:00 +0000

It hasn’t been photoshopped. It looks like it’s been photoshopped because those two parts of the triangle are not connected and only look connected because of the exact angle from with the picture was taken.