Thanks Steve for this project. We use it at our Men's Shed in Gawler, South Australia. We run a Neuro Diverse Program for lads still in high school. We make this the first project they work on and we stand shoulder to shoulder whilst we make it. We find the lads talk more to us than if we were facing each other. The other bonus is, they take a finished project home on there first day with us.
Hey Steve! Finally after months of postponing, I got started on woodworking. I have been watching your videos for almost one year now. This video was one of the first I watched, I thought this would be my first project, and indeed. I was able to made a cube within a cube with only a circular saw and a forstner bit on a handheld drill. It took me a lot of time especially to let the drill cool down! I had a lot of fun and could not believe when the cube was released! Greetings from Brazil! Thanks!
Several years ago an old retired machinist came to work in our tool crib. On his desk he had a small cube of metal with a smaller cube inside it. He had made it on a lathe. I studied that thing for hours and never figured out how he did it. Now I know, thanks a bunch.
Steve, I had some Y9 workshop students who finished all the other projects and told them to watch your cube demo. They did and made their own, because of your easy to follow instructions! I did help them get the cube square and set up the drill press though. Lots of fun from Australia
Nice simple project...Good job...I saw this Vid a few weeks ago and finally got around to making a couple the other day out of some 3" x 3" Canary Wood and finished them with Tung Oil.......People really like them...
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Do you also have some ideas for other puzzles like that one ? We will try to mill that with cnc machine. Looks great !
that's great..you can still use stain to make it more appealing yet sustain the aesthetics of the wood grain..anyway thanks for sharing this fun idea!!
awesome! "center point" and "arbitrary" two words i had not heard in a long time... aaah... those algebra days from high school eons ago! wonderful little puzzle and well done.
@TheMonke22 Wow, your instructor is nuts. I just went out to my shop to check: my biggest Forstner bit is 2 1/8". In fact, I bought it as part of a set at a super-specialty woodworking store: COSTCO!
Well Steve, I enjoyed this video quite a bit. I don't do any woodworking. I watch a lot of YT videos about magic and puzzles so this popped up in my recommendations. Fun and interesting item.
Steve, First off let me tell you I love your videos. Also All the people who say you are unsafe need to get a life. Any woodworker knows you need to only do things you fell are safe and stay within your own skill level. Anyhow I made this cube this weekend. My first attempt I cut to deep and it messed the small cube up. So I decided to get a little Norm on it and made a jig with my kreg pocket hole kit and made a nice place to secure it to my drill press and so I can make many of them. 1of2
Hi Steve, I went to buy my first press drill this week, and just finished the cube. I made it out of 4x4 from HD (that's all they had). The grain was so big that the finish on the inside cube came out pretty bad, but little sanding fixed it.
@fastgs1 It's really tough to bore through the endgrain of hardwood. Try pine. Even then, you will get some smoking on the endgrain holes. Also make sure your bit is sharp and take it slowly, a little bit at a time.
I am on my wife tablet. I was a tool maker and I made sets of these out of aluminum. nefore I reeve the square box from inside drilled small dots on each si de to make the inside block look like a dice. My mom has the first set of five I made a d I ma de a aluminum case to store them in. great video wood working is as fun as tool making with steel.
I just saw this video a couple of month s ago and thought it was pretty neat so I decided to make some. They turned out really nice (red oak, cedar, and spalted maple). I did have an issue as is mentioned by several people below about the hole the forstner bit makes. I put some black milliput in the holes which makes the center cube looks like a dice. Makes it just a little harder to figure out although except for woodworkers I think it will baffle most people. Hardest part is finishing. I found that using sandpaper affixed to popsicle sticks with spray adhesive works well to sand the interior cube.
The holes on the inner cube from the tip of the Forstner bit annoy me so bad. I think if I did this I'd buy a second Forstner and file off the tip to finish the hole.
I work as a Joiner/Carpenter for a company who maintain houses in England. Most of my time is spent hanging doors, renewing floors, bath panels, kitchen fitting, fencing etc. etc. I've been doing this for about 5 years now (that's after I finished my apprenticeship) and it's started to become boring and mundane. Your videos have helped me enjoy my trade once more and take pride in what I do, when making your little oddities and when I'm in work. Thank you and keep the videos coming.
Very well done--i was trying to work out how you did it but after seeing the video you make it look so easy. I will have to try and make one for myself.
I did this a few months back, I found it in one of my wood working books. the end grain is a real pain. even with a brand new forstner bit it just smoked and burnt the wood.
I made one last night using this technique, came out great. I used kingwood, which is very hard. I thought drilling the end grain was going to be the death of my drill press though. Smoked the whole time, and frequently stalled. I would up doing the end bits with a 1" forstner first, then going back with the 2".
hello there. my great grandfather was known for creating up to 6 wooden balls within wooden balls. each ball had circular holes and could be moved completly inside the next. they were all made from one piece of wood and there were no joins at all. my grandfather has one which is 4 balls and each sibbling has the number of balls relative to what order they were born, eg the first born has a beautifly sculpted single ball, the second has a ball in a ball, the third has 3 and then my grandfather was 4th. there were six kids total so i suppose the concept would be the same for 6 as for four. i wonder if you may know a way to make these as he never passe on his secrect before hid death and the entire family is wondering. nect time i visit my grandfather i shall take a photo of his. any ideas?
Have you tried making the central cube a bit larger by cutting out the central cube at a 90 degree offset from the parent cube? The central cubes corner would be able to extend as far as the face of the parent cube.
so awesome and my big thanks. my grand pa used to have cube within a cube within a cube and I could have twisted my head off trying to figure out how he made it :D.
Thanks Steve for this project. We use it at our Men's Shed in Gawler, South Australia. We run a Neuro Diverse Program for lads still in high school. We make this the first project they work on and we stand shoulder to shoulder whilst we make it. We find the lads talk more to us than if we were facing each other. The other bonus is, they take a finished project home on there first day with us.
Hey Steve! Finally after months of postponing, I got started on woodworking. I have been watching your videos for almost one year now. This video was one of the first I watched, I thought this would be my first project, and indeed. I was able to made a cube within a cube with only a circular saw and a forstner bit on a handheld drill. It took me a lot of time especially to let the drill cool down! I had a lot of fun and could not believe when the cube was released! Greetings from Brazil! Thanks!
rumaging through some of your older vids again... you rocked then and still rock today :)
Several years ago an old retired machinist came to work in our tool crib. On his desk he had a small cube of metal with a smaller cube inside it. He had made it on a lathe. I studied that thing for hours and never figured out how he did it. Now I know, thanks a bunch.
Wow, a much younger Steve! Good job!
Thanks for the info! It's really a weird thing to wrap my brain around how a circle can cut a cube. I'm sure there are mathematics involved somehow!
I still can't get over the fact that you are my doppelganger. I show my friends, and they are astonished. I should make mock-ups of your videos.
I am watching this in 2018 and man you have equal amount of enthusiasm if not more, only this time with better video and audio
After about 3 tries of messing it up I was able to successfully build a cube within a cube within a cube thanks Steve keep going!
It's a Forstner bit. I got a whole kit of them at Costco a few years ago. Well worth the investment.
Very cool. I'm not a wood worker, I work in metal. I'm going to try to make this in stainless steel on my mill.
How’d that turn out?
Chris McIntyre , hey Chris , zews1 doesn't work in metal anymore , a piece of Stainless steel went through what brains he had left
I've done this project its a good hour project and a bit of fun, im yet to do your nail through wood trick. Thanks Steve
Thanks. I'm glad you gave it a shot. It's an odd little project!
I've seen people do this, but in metal instead of wood. Pretty cool!
thats a nice little cube to have around the house.
Absolutely awesome. this is what life is about.
As soon as I rebuild the house and workshop I'm tring this.
Thank's for the tip on the cube john.
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Steve, I had some Y9 workshop students who finished all the other projects and told them to watch your cube demo. They did and made their own, because of your easy to follow instructions! I did help them get the cube square and set up the drill press though. Lots of fun from Australia
Nice work, Steve. I manufactured this cube from brass during my apprenticeship as a toolmaker.
Nice simple project...Good job...I saw this Vid a few weeks ago and finally got around to making a couple the other day out of some 3" x 3" Canary Wood and finished them with Tung Oil.......People really like them...
Do you also have some ideas for other puzzles like that one ? We will try to mill that with cnc machine. Looks great !
that is a very neat little puzzle
Good project. Also really like the Dave Brubeck music. Thanks
I made one of these after watching your video, you were right about the sanding ha ha. Thanks, had fun doing it.
that's great..you can still use stain to make it more appealing yet sustain the aesthetics of the wood grain..anyway thanks for sharing this fun idea!!
awesome! "center point" and "arbitrary" two words i had not heard in a long time... aaah... those algebra days from high school eons ago! wonderful little puzzle and well done.
I love your project...thank for sharing cute box
@TheMonke22 Wow, your instructor is nuts. I just went out to my shop to check: my biggest Forstner bit is 2 1/8". In fact, I bought it as part of a set at a super-specialty woodworking store: COSTCO!
This was very impressive!
Well Steve, I enjoyed this video quite a bit. I don't do any woodworking. I watch a lot of YT videos about magic and puzzles so this popped up in my recommendations. Fun and interesting item.
Steve, First off let me tell you I love your videos. Also All the people who say you are unsafe need to get a life. Any woodworker knows you need to only do things you fell are safe and stay within your own skill level. Anyhow I made this cube this weekend. My first attempt I cut to deep and it messed the small cube up. So I decided to get a little Norm on it and made a jig with my kreg pocket hole kit and made a nice place to secure it to my drill press and so I can make many of them. 1of2
I am actually quite fond of this.
I'll have to try this one
very nice! another mystery solved! thanx
Cool project. And props on the Brubeck.
That sounds fantastic. If you could post a quick video, I'd love to see it!
Hi Steve, I went to buy my first press drill this week, and just finished the cube. I made it out of 4x4 from HD (that's all they had). The grain was so big that the finish on the inside cube came out pretty bad, but little sanding fixed it.
I remember doing this in high school. Given the periods, it took a while but it's an interesting decoration.
Thanks for sharing this 👍❤️
Nice job Steve!
made this out of walnut...very beautiful...looks geat and blew the mind of my wood working teacher (im a sophmore)
@fastgs1 It's really tough to bore through the endgrain of hardwood. Try pine. Even then, you will get some smoking on the endgrain holes. Also make sure your bit is sharp and take it slowly, a little bit at a time.
It's really hard to bore through the endgrain. I used pine, but it was still pretty tough. Any harder wood would really dull a forstner bit quickly.
The finger in a cube is an excellent idea.
I am on my wife tablet. I was a tool maker and I made sets of these out of aluminum. nefore I reeve the square box from inside drilled small dots on each si de to make the inside block look like a dice. My mom has the first set of five I made a d I ma de a aluminum case to store them in. great video wood working is as fun as tool making with steel.
I just saw this video a couple of month s ago and thought it was pretty neat so I decided to make some. They turned out really nice (red oak, cedar, and spalted maple). I did have an issue as is mentioned by several people below about the hole the forstner bit makes. I put some black milliput in the holes which makes the center cube looks like a dice. Makes it just a little harder to figure out although except for woodworkers I think it will baffle most people. Hardest part is finishing. I found that using sandpaper affixed to popsicle sticks with spray adhesive works well to sand the interior cube.
I think I am going to try this. thanks for sharing.
The holes on the inner cube from the tip of the Forstner bit annoy me so bad. I think if I did this I'd buy a second Forstner and file off the tip to finish the hole.
excellent video. I made a cube in a cube in a cube
Very Cool. Great Instructions!
I work as a Joiner/Carpenter for a company who maintain houses in England. Most of my time is spent hanging doors, renewing floors, bath panels, kitchen fitting, fencing etc. etc. I've been doing this for about 5 years now (that's after I finished my apprenticeship) and it's started to become boring and mundane. Your videos have helped me enjoy my trade once more and take pride in what I do, when making your little oddities and when I'm in work. Thank you and keep the videos coming.
that's a pretty cool project
Thanks Steve. I really enjoy all of your videos. I appreciate your laid back approach and humor.
cajunpen
Very well done--i was trying to work out how you did it but after seeing the video you make it look so easy. I will have to try and make one for myself.
Great job
I did this a few months back, I found it in one of my wood working books. the end grain is a real pain. even with a brand new forstner bit it just smoked and burnt the wood.
Thank you !
que gran idea gracias ese sera mi proyecto para hoy
LOL!! That is Great. I gotta try it.
Thanks, Ken,
beautiful
Fascinating!
nice qube - i did something similar in a lathe the core is looking like an hourglass and has a solid wooden ring around it
simple yet fascinating...nice video
Thanks for the Brubeck.
Steve, neat little project and well demonstrated. Thanks for sharing. Fred
Cool idea
This was my first video l watched for Steve .. and it was great
Definitely great! I will try to make one this weekend!!
Incredible
Very well taught. Thanks,
Super cool
Спасибо! Все гениальное просто!
Wow, that is very interesting.
wonderful skill...
Ok on this video I'm a couple years late.... But I really like this. It fits my sense of humor. Thanks for all you do!!!
VERY COOL THANKS
I made one last night using this technique, came out great. I used kingwood, which is very hard. I thought drilling the end grain was going to be the death of my drill press though. Smoked the whole time, and frequently stalled. I would up doing the end bits with a 1" forstner first, then going back with the 2".
excelente video, gracias por compartirlo con nosotros.
You have inspired me to do one in metal, stainless steel, not sure how it will work, but will let you know!!!!
How did it end up?
I have one aluminium cube into cube, the larger is 20x20 and there is small one inside, it's made on lathe
Very nice I'll try
lo felicito por ese video y ese proyecto .
Great job man
Ooooowwwwww!!!! AMAZING! I'm going to do this!! Another thumbs up!
hello there. my great grandfather was known for creating up to 6 wooden balls within wooden balls. each ball had circular holes and could be moved completly inside the next. they were all made from one piece of wood and there were no joins at all. my grandfather has one which is 4 balls and each sibbling has the number of balls relative to what order they were born, eg the first born has a beautifly sculpted single ball, the second has a ball in a ball, the third has 3 and then my grandfather was 4th. there were six kids total so i suppose the concept would be the same for 6 as for four. i wonder if you may know a way to make these as he never passe on his secrect before hid death and the entire family is wondering. nect time i visit my grandfather i shall take a photo of his. any ideas?
Have you tried making the central cube a bit larger by cutting out the central cube at a 90 degree offset from the parent cube? The central cubes corner would be able to extend as far as the face of the parent cube.
Que bueno está el video
@snatchbox89 It's a risk I am willing to take. I suggest you watch my video on woodworking safety, personal responsibility, and the "safety nannies".
Great idea!
That is so cool!!
Awesome! Very cool. Very good instructions!
that was fun to watch thanx
A clever router table jig would do it without the hole in each face of the inner cube, making it much more mysterious.
So THAT'S how it done! Thanks.
I have to make another one, and have just watched this video again - completely forgot that I had seen it, before.
@Culturedropout Gotta love the safety monitors...
so awesome and my big thanks. my grand pa used to have cube within a cube within a cube and I could have twisted my head off trying to figure out how he made it :D.
what a nice job!
This is awesome
Great stuff! Thanks
good idea