Gluing the panels
This afternoon, the heavy rain finally stopped. In the morning, the humidity was very high, so I couldn’t do any delicate work. Instead, I did some machine work in the morning. As the humidity started to go down in the afternoon, I was able to resume a few tasks that had been on hold.
I decided to wait a bit longer before doing any panel gluing, so I started by attaching the Aruki panels (moving panels) on the 3-sun 18-steps puzzle box. It’s small, but it moves in the same way as the 4-sun 18-steps type that I’m also working on at the same time. Because the smaller box is harder to move with your fingers, I adjusted the Aruki panels to move a little more loosely.
For this kind of box, where four panels move, the next panel to move (the large ones on the top and bottom) slides over the Aruki panel that moved earlier. As the steps progress, the side Aruki panels become harder to push. So it’s very important to make them slightly looser from the beginning.
Later, as the humidity dropped even more, I glued the Kannuki (slide key) panel on the 4-sun box and the side panel (the Aruki side) on the 2-sun cube box. With this, the assembly of both the 4-sun box and the 2-sun cube is now complete.
This 2-sun cube is really an experimental piece for me, both in making and in selling. But I truly hope this work will become a new lifelong project. It’s far from being a way to make money 🤣, but still, I’m very passionate about it.
Next, I’d like to move on to the finishing work on a day when the sun isn’t too strong. It’s been raining very heavily these past few days, but it seems that the rainy season is finally coming to an end in our area.
I decided to wait a bit longer before doing any panel gluing, so I started by attaching the Aruki panels (moving panels) on the 3-sun 18-steps puzzle box. It’s small, but it moves in the same way as the 4-sun 18-steps type that I’m also working on at the same time. Because the smaller box is harder to move with your fingers, I adjusted the Aruki panels to move a little more loosely.
For this kind of box, where four panels move, the next panel to move (the large ones on the top and bottom) slides over the Aruki panel that moved earlier. As the steps progress, the side Aruki panels become harder to push. So it’s very important to make them slightly looser from the beginning.
Later, as the humidity dropped even more, I glued the Kannuki (slide key) panel on the 4-sun box and the side panel (the Aruki side) on the 2-sun cube box. With this, the assembly of both the 4-sun box and the 2-sun cube is now complete.
This 2-sun cube is really an experimental piece for me, both in making and in selling. But I truly hope this work will become a new lifelong project. It’s far from being a way to make money 🤣, but still, I’m very passionate about it.
Next, I’d like to move on to the finishing work on a day when the sun isn’t too strong. It’s been raining very heavily these past few days, but it seems that the rainy season is finally coming to an end in our area.
