14 Years of Shop Notes - Kel Snake

I don't know if anyone has interest in this sort of puzzle provenance....

I have roughly 85 pages of shop notes and drawings from the last 14 years of puzzle making up for grabs.  To make it a little extra interesting I have hidden a riddle within the many pages.  If you can tell me the answer on sale day (or before) at IPP and you will get first right of refusal on this beautiful Work Bench inspired design, appropriately named 'Benchmark'.  

A few images from these selected for this unique package will also be used in an upcoming book on my puzzle making experiences to date as well as my process.

This box was sourced from a fella on fb and I knew one day that I would love the chance to retrofit this theme.  The goal of course is to unlock the box so you can get the tools unpacked in order to get busy making more puzzles! Dimensions - 7 3/4" wide x 11" long x 5" high.

For me at least, I see mechanisms in my mind, but I need to sketch them out in order to make sense of what I am seeing.  Now interestingly perhaps, I cannot always draw what I see and so what I am sketching out might look different then what I see in my head, and often times what I build isn't exactly what I had sketched either, kind of like a step down transformer of sorts.

Tracked shipping included if the auction price goes over $400.