Tony Fisher's Mini Container Puzzle

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Uploaded by KaiXevandStanley on Aug 8, 2009

This is one of four Container puzzles I have made.
History and background-
In 1998 Dieter Gebhardt suggested that I made Jean-Claude Constantin's Container puzzle (with permission). This puzzle appeared as a sketch in Jean-Claude's catalogue. The catalogue contains puzzles that Jean-Claude had either made or was willing to make for a fee. I am pretty certain though that he never got round to making the Container.
My first attempt at his Container in 1998 resulted in a very large and heavy puzzle. I had used remeltable rubber (Gelflex) moulds and cast pieces out of polyester resin. The pieces were hollow though not hollow enough to make a significant difference to the weight. It worked very well but I was never happy with it. Normal Rubik's Cube style stickers were used with red opposite orange, green opposite blue and white opposite yellow.
It wasn't until 2006 that I made another attempt at this puzzle. I had started to use high impact polystyrene plastic sheet for some of my puzzles and felt my techniques had improved enough to give it a second shot. This time I used a mini Skewb and the resulting Mini Container (shown in this video) was predictably much smaller and lighter. However the problem this time was that it was very loose and lacked that pleasing click that a regular Skewb has after each completed move.
That same month I made my third attempt. This time I went back to a regular Skewb for the nice movement. I first cut it down though which made it possible for the Container to be smaller than my first one. Coupled with plastic sheet for lightness at last I created a Container puzzle I was truly happy with. It looks good and it moves well so mission accomplished.
The following month I decided to experiment with a white version. This was the first ever I had made a white puzzle and wasn't sure what the finish would be like. Although I was able to use white high impact polystyrene sheet the seams looked grey and dirty. I tried painting it and that initially seemed to work. However with use many areas became dirty. It moves really well just like the black medium ones but other than that I was a bit disappointed. I used the same sticker colouring except I replaced the single white sticker with a black one.

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