Tony Fisher - 5x5x5 Egg (2015)

⟬ Fisher Fortnight ⟭——[ puzzles made by Tony Fisher ]——01. 5x5x5 Egg (2015)

originally made for Dutch Cube Day 2015 with really nice stickers from Olivér's Stickers, which permanently closed during COVID and is sadly missed.

from Tony's originaldescription on the TwistyPuzzles forum:

The 5x5x5 Egg was the first time I had combined casting from moulds with hands on shaping with a Dremel. It was also the first time I used a technique I devised that I am calling "finger nailing" to avoid bubbles forming under stickers due to resin out-gassing which can continue for several years after casting. As with last year's Golden Cube 2 Extreme puzzles avoiding the problem was hugely time consuming and significantly raised the price of the puzzle. Finger nailing involves casting pieces with sunken faces which are later filled with Milliput (or any other non out-gassing suitable material). I used a genuine V-Cube 5 to make the puzzle. Movement is OK though a little stiff at times.

i can verify that after a decade, the 'finger nailing' technique works perfectly. i have never seen a single bubble on the stickers.

TwistyPuzzles.com museum entry: https://twistypuzzles.com/app/museum/museum_showitem.php?pkey=5294