If you don't have the equipment or patience to cut marbles in half, hemispherical glass cabochons are commercially available for use in jewelry, taxidermy, etc.
I've been subbed for years specifically for the little bits of ingenuity like the spray glue trick at 1:00 and the chunk of wood used to guide the saw at 1:40. The smart man finds novel solutions to his problems. I, however, never seem to learn.
I became aware of your channels fairly recently & started watching every new release immediately. If I'm perfectly honest, a large amount have titles or subjects manners that don't particularly appear to interest me but I watch them anyway. I say that to say I have never watched a single one of your videos that didn't entertain, educate or inspire me. I appreciate that
I appreciate that the captions were perfect enough that I didn't even notice anything about them until the end. A lot of channels manage to do worse than the automatic captions by making them not exactly match the spoken words in the audio, or having someone who clearly doesn't know the subject matter try to guess what words are, like translating "1080p" to "10ADP", or writing down unimportant things like "[presenter sighs]" and "[sound of box falling over]".
Gorgeous boards, and I'm glad to see this return to form. No one else is really able to match your therapeutic-artistic video style. If I had to pick a favorite, I might choose either the Blue Sapphire, or the Clear Scepters.
I've watched a ton of polymer clay and caning videos but I've never actually gotten into it. I'm just obsessed with watching other people's hobbies. LoL
It's really great to see the caning again. I remember you using that technique for adding some "pizazz" to the handles of some hand tools in an older video
I like the tutorial for how to make you some 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 nails. Clever little siphon bottle you've got there for the dremmel. I've only ever tried this game I think with the empty hole in the corner. I wonder if it's solvable with the empty spot in any starting position.
I'm not responding seriously to that, except to say that I love you math people. "Normals." Ha. Anything but; most people just say perpendicular! But I'm not poking fun. I will admit to be prototyping something related that's a little less, well, _plane._
I love this channel. I've dreamed for years of doing woodworking when I live in my own house, and everything you design and make here is an endless source of inspiration. Thank you.
Oh and to this day I can't figure out what the single frame pics in your vids mean. Except for one that looked like a bunch of peopke making mean comments in your videos, that one made me sad.
I recently started making classic toys for a local shop and this vid gives me some great ideas! I've made triangle puzzles already using smoothed joining pegs, but those marble nails look something awesome.
I'm not going to lie I didn't know you had another channel by which I mean THIS channel. I've been following your ^2 channel for a while and saw you mention this triangle puzzle game as to why you were making that drilling jig. So you have a new subscriber on your 'main' channel today!
Cool technique after cool technique after cool technique... awesome. As for the ending... Hmm, it's been years but my recollection was that I wanted to get an intermediate step of a 3x3x3 triangle in the bottom left and a lone pin at the top (ie, gap of one to the triangle) and then I could finish. Either I'm remembering wrong, or more likely there is more than one way to solve it.
One possible small change you could make...add small magnets on the bottom under each hole to help hold each nail in place (particularly to help not lose pieces as it gets thrown around). It would have to be close/strong enough to hold, but not too strong that playing the game is difficult.
I spent a summer with this as a boy. It's actually possible to solve with any empty starting hole. Used to have them all memorized but time has faded the muscle memory...
The solution you showed had a specific empty space. Does the logic/technique behind extend to any empty space? Like how in there's an algorithm for towers of hanoi which lets you know how to continue for any size tower on any peg.
I appreciate the captions, as much as you can imagine, I've captioned a video or two of mine and it was a painful experience due to controlling playback being tedious.
If you’re okay sharing, what did you do with all the extra puzzles you made? Did you keep them in storage, or did you give some of them away/store them?
In a box, for now. Right next to many, many other boxes of puzzles. But some will probably be given away. The walnut one in the thumbnail belongs to Mrs. pocket.
Do those marbles have a particular designation, or are they just glass spheres? The only marbles I have ever seen for sale are "cat's eye marbles", some clear glass, some white-ish/milky glass.
Not to sound sarcastic, but have you actually been looking? Once you start to really look for them, it's a bit strange where you'll find them. My advice is usually to look in discount outlet stores, often around fake flowers (as 'vase filler'), and to not bother looking in the craft stores. Dollar stores have nice marbles on occasion. This will sound funny, but I once found a near optical-quality specimen in a $1 mixed-supply bag at the dollar store, so I went back and bought about 20-some bags. Different manufacturers will make sets at different tolerances for their varying customers; as such, discount stores will often end up with spill-over surpluses that were once designated, at least in part, as high-quality product. Some will be super-clear, and others will be extremely spherical. It's literally a mixed bag. If you're smiling at me, consider that I know all this from having a marble-sorting machine and some videos about sticking marbles together with enough precision to build geometric forms. I'm not completely off my rocker: it does still feel weird to be _that_ customer.
@@pocket83 i was actually looking in toy stores, never considered others. I suppose I have to widen my search to "glass spheres", "beads", or other decorative items. I did find -- on account of this channel -- those flat glass marbles though. Thanks for the information!
Sorry, but I can't let you get away with that claim here. Peg solitaire has ancient origin. This is not to say that he didn't have the idea, but invention is a nebulous concept. Rarely does an idea originate from a single source. Take it from me, since I invented the "Rubik's Bricks" puzzle, only to find out from a patent attorney that somebody else had already designed it years before.
I would really like to see your take on this disc sander - ruclips.net/video/5RwIRv01ygs/видео.html And I haven't seen the Man Craft machine in a while?!?!
@@pocket83 So you intentionally dressed it to have a groove down the center? Normally you never seen that done. I am curious, what is the purpose of the profile? Usually they're dressed to be square unless they are used for a specific purpose. 2 individually powered rotating abrasives rotating at different rpm against each other doesn't seem like a good idea to me. But you do you. I'll stick with my dressing tool.
@@pocketchange3543 No, I use the angle grinder to _remove_ grooves. I don't own a dressing tool. To be honest, I've never been very comfortable with those. The trick is to not allow the tools to work "against each other," but to have them only tangent at a point, to force them to average out each other's eccentricities. Similar to the way that two stones might be rubbed together to create a flat plane. As I've said, you keep the disk at a steep angle, and very little material is removed. Maybe I'll make a video. That one should get a reaction.
@@pocket83 WOW, I can't believe that groove happened in a month! Either that grinding wheel is junk or your doing something wrong. I've seen 15 yr old "WELL USED" never dressed, grinding wheels that haven't gotten that bad. I maybe dress mine once a year, and thats mainly to crisp up the outside corners that get slightly rounded over.
10/10 my favorite channel on RUclips. No other channel can give me the same excitement when a new video comes out!
👍
Agreed
If you don't have the equipment or patience to cut marbles in half, hemispherical glass cabochons are commercially available for use in jewelry, taxidermy, etc.
And if you're a noob you can use River stones from the dollar store
I've been subbed for years specifically for the little bits of ingenuity like the spray glue trick at 1:00 and the chunk of wood used to guide the saw at 1:40. The smart man finds novel solutions to his problems. I, however, never seem to learn.
Your videos are so inspiring, they fill my head with creative ideas and resourcefulness every time! Thank you
That's appreciated. Thank you.
Yes, return of the GOAT! Thanks for the new video Pocket83 00:01
I became aware of your channels fairly recently & started watching every new release immediately. If I'm perfectly honest, a large amount have titles or subjects manners that don't particularly appear to interest me but I watch them anyway. I say that to say I have never watched a single one of your videos that didn't entertain, educate or inspire me. I appreciate that
I appreciate that the captions were perfect enough that I didn't even notice anything about them until the end. A lot of channels manage to do worse than the automatic captions by making them not exactly match the spoken words in the audio, or having someone who clearly doesn't know the subject matter try to guess what words are, like translating "1080p" to "10ADP", or writing down unimportant things like "[presenter sighs]" and "[sound of box falling over]".
Those "unimportant things" are actually very important for deaf people that want to see videos like this
Gorgeous boards, and I'm glad to see this return to form. No one else is really able to match your therapeutic-artistic video style.
If I had to pick a favorite, I might choose either the Blue Sapphire, or the Clear Scepters.
Idk why but this feels like one of your old videos. I can't quite describe what it is but i sure do like it
I've watched a ton of polymer clay and caning videos but I've never actually gotten into it. I'm just obsessed with watching other people's hobbies. LoL
Hey, technically, that counts as its own hobby!
In the 70s, I got one for the Steakhouse USA. Over the years, I lost the pegs and have been using it as a coaster. You make me want to play again
Loved it...and the captions..😉
Thanks! Those are a lot of work. Maybe I talk too much ;)
Nice to see you are up to your subliminal tricks and high revolution graphics once again.
Thank you for the template, that saves me some time.
Best Wishes, Brendan.
Of course. Have fun with it.
It's really great to see the caning again. I remember you using that technique for adding some "pizazz" to the handles of some hand tools in an older video
Looks like a lot of work went into these, but boy, you really smashed it - great job!
I like the tutorial for how to make you some 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 nails. Clever little siphon bottle you've got there for the dremmel. I've only ever tried this game I think with the empty hole in the corner. I wonder if it's solvable with the empty spot in any starting position.
Underrated
I always enjoy a good homemade puzzle\toy\game\object video from Pocket83.
Curious how it would look and play if you drilled the holes after you curved the surface, such that the holes are normals to the curved surface.
I'm not responding seriously to that, except to say that I love you math people.
"Normals." Ha. Anything but; most people just say perpendicular! But I'm not poking fun. I will admit to be prototyping something related that's a little less, well, _plane._
I love this channel. I've dreamed for years of doing woodworking when I live in my own house, and everything you design and make here is an endless source of inspiration. Thank you.
Oh and to this day I can't figure out what the single frame pics in your vids mean. Except for one that looked like a bunch of peopke making mean comments in your videos, that one made me sad.
Wow! I really enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing such a creative video, there is no limit to imagination.
Hello brother
I recently started making classic toys for a local shop and this vid gives me some great ideas! I've made triangle puzzles already using smoothed joining pegs, but those marble nails look something awesome.
Love the details and options
Nice curved design on the triangle. I'm lucky enough to have a lathe so that would make quick work of it. Thanks for the inspiring project ideas
You know there is actually a harder goal which is to have 8 pegs on the board with no more moves. Great video by the way
I'm not going to lie I didn't know you had another channel by which I mean THIS channel. I've been following your ^2 channel for a while and saw you mention this triangle puzzle game as to why you were making that drilling jig. So you have a new subscriber on your 'main' channel today!
Hello sir 🙏🤝🇮🇩
Fantastic 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you!
You are certainly welcome.
i've watched your videos growing up and it's really nice to see you upload again, thanks as always
Loved this vid! Fantastic ideas!
Awesome project and video - so many cool techniques to add to your maker arsenal. I really want to get back into polymer clay now. Thanks for sharing!
Cool technique after cool technique after cool technique... awesome.
As for the ending... Hmm, it's been years but my recollection was that I wanted to get an intermediate step of a 3x3x3 triangle in the bottom left and a lone pin at the top (ie, gap of one to the triangle) and then I could finish. Either I'm remembering wrong, or more likely there is more than one way to solve it.
Thanks. And yes, there are multiple solutions. One involves first making every possible move in one of the 3x3 triangles.
One possible small change you could make...add small magnets on the bottom under each hole to help hold each nail in place (particularly to help not lose pieces as it gets thrown around). It would have to be close/strong enough to hold, but not too strong that playing the game is difficult.
this is awesome!
This has some real "How it's Made" Vibes
Amazing!
Jesus! The cutting of those marbles was scary 🤣
only said by someone who has never used a tile saw.
@@loligagger85 alright big man. So what? It still looked scary on video.
I spent a summer with this as a boy. It's actually possible to solve with any empty starting hole. Used to have them all memorized but time has faded the muscle memory...
the best GOAT
Using a fence on the drill press would help keep the holes straight.
Nice
The solution you showed had a specific empty space. Does the logic/technique behind extend to any empty space?
Like how in there's an algorithm for towers of hanoi which lets you know how to continue for any size tower on any peg.
I appreciate the captions, as much as you can imagine, I've captioned a video or two of mine and it was a painful experience due to controlling playback being tedious.
Bro..... when tf did this guy start posting again?!?!? I'm in it!!!!
If you’re okay sharing, what did you do with all the extra puzzles you made? Did you keep them in storage, or did you give some of them away/store them?
In a box, for now. Right next to many, many other boxes of puzzles. But some will probably be given away. The walnut one in the thumbnail belongs to Mrs. pocket.
Do those marbles have a particular designation, or are they just glass spheres? The only marbles I have ever seen for sale are "cat's eye marbles", some clear glass, some white-ish/milky glass.
Not to sound sarcastic, but have you actually been looking? Once you start to really look for them, it's a bit strange where you'll find them. My advice is usually to look in discount outlet stores, often around fake flowers (as 'vase filler'), and to not bother looking in the craft stores.
Dollar stores have nice marbles on occasion. This will sound funny, but I once found a near optical-quality specimen in a $1 mixed-supply bag at the dollar store, so I went back and bought about 20-some bags. Different manufacturers will make sets at different tolerances for their varying customers; as such, discount stores will often end up with spill-over surpluses that were once designated, at least in part, as high-quality product. Some will be super-clear, and others will be extremely spherical. It's literally a mixed bag.
If you're smiling at me, consider that I know all this from having a marble-sorting machine and some videos about sticking marbles together with enough precision to build geometric forms. I'm not completely off my rocker: it does still feel weird to be _that_ customer.
@@pocket83 i was actually looking in toy stores, never considered others. I suppose I have to widen my search to "glass spheres", "beads", or other decorative items. I did find -- on account of this channel -- those flat glass marbles though. Thanks for the information!
yellow marbles on green sticks!
Whoa haven't watched you in some time
at one time I could get down to one pin in around 30 seconds , had a small pocket size but lost it and haven't made another one
Is that clay milliput?
Sculpey III.
😍😍😍😍
I got 1 peg one time in Cracker Barrel
Look what we got here: a *professional* toy maker.
Can you play all six triangles in one game?
2:17 If Natalie Portman is there for a pun, I'm definitely missing the joke.
Greetings.
Another challenging way to play this game is to try to jump and remove 4 pegs without having another jump available.
Oh hi there!
😊
aaa, the cracker barrel puzzle
I got one peg one time
In Cracker Barrel
omg these things lol
noice
This game was actually invented by my great grandfather! It’s always great to see them in Cracker Barrel
Sorry, but I can't let you get away with that claim here. Peg solitaire has ancient origin. This is not to say that he didn't have the idea, but invention is a nebulous concept. Rarely does an idea originate from a single source.
Take it from me, since I invented the "Rubik's Bricks" puzzle, only to find out from a patent attorney that somebody else had already designed it years before.
It isn't a true Pocket83 video without a hidden frame shot!
Ah man, you didn't finish in the center hole.
I would really like to see your take on this disc sander - ruclips.net/video/5RwIRv01ygs/видео.html And I haven't seen the Man Craft machine in a while?!?!
The only thing I've ever learned from this puzzle is that I'm an ignoramus.
Looks like you need to dress your bench grinder wheel.
It was trued up a month ago using an angle grinder with a cut-off disk. As they spin, one trues the other. Keep a steep angle if you try it.
@@pocket83 So you intentionally dressed it to have a groove down the center? Normally you never seen that done. I am curious, what is the purpose of the profile? Usually they're dressed to be square unless they are used for a specific purpose.
2 individually powered rotating abrasives rotating at different rpm against each other doesn't seem like a good idea to me. But you do you. I'll stick with my dressing tool.
@@pocketchange3543 No, I use the angle grinder to _remove_ grooves. I don't own a dressing tool. To be honest, I've never been very comfortable with those. The trick is to not allow the tools to work "against each other," but to have them only tangent at a point, to force them to average out each other's eccentricities. Similar to the way that two stones might be rubbed together to create a flat plane. As I've said, you keep the disk at a steep angle, and very little material is removed.
Maybe I'll make a video. That one should get a reaction.
@@pocket83 WOW, I can't believe that groove happened in a month! Either that grinding wheel is junk or your doing something wrong. I've seen 15 yr old "WELL USED" never dressed, grinding wheels that haven't gotten that bad. I maybe dress mine once a year, and thats mainly to crisp up the outside corners that get slightly rounded over.
Where did you get that from? No, I trued it up a month ago. It takes lots of abuse to get a groove like that.
:)