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Big Kahuna Mechanical Puzzle, from the Tavern Puzzle Collection. Objective: Remove oval ring. Handcrafted in the USA. Made from 6mm steel. Rated: Difficult. Comes with cloth bag with information sheet. Solutions are available at the Tavern Puzzles website: https://tavernpuzzle.com/pages/solutions "We call them Tavern Puzzles because they often turned up in country inns and taverns, the community gathering places in American towns, in days gone by. Did blacksmiths have a special fondness for puzzles? Maybe. What is more likely is that making a puzzle was a task that was used as a forging exercise for apprentice blacksmiths. The apprentice could learn techniques for making an eye, a twist, and precision bending in a simple puzzle design like the Iron Heart. After the master was satisfied with the apprentice’s skill in producing nails, the young apprentice might put together a brainteaser like the Patience Puzzle. Dennis Sucilsky is a museum-trained blacksmith who has reproduced some of these traditional designs, as well as his own originals, using many of the same tools, techniques and materials used by blacksmiths in earlier times."