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Vinco is the commercial name of Václav Obšivac, a czech puzzle designer and manufacturer.
Website : Vinco's Web Shop & Gallery
Václav became interested in puzzles in 1999. Among his sources of inspiration, he cites Stewart Coffin, Tom Lensch, Pelikan and Philippe Dubois.
His work stands out by the use of local european woods to produce an aesthetic result that would usually be expected using tropical precious woods. Plum, especially, plays an important role in his creations.
Many of his puzzles are variations around a similar internal mechanism with a different external shape. For example, Flowers, Bicone, Ocvalhedron and Dual Tetrahedron are all based on the same four-piece coordinate motion core.
He sometimes produces several copies of his puzzles, but the wood choices and patterns on the most beautiful ones are often unique.
Here is a small gallery of his puzzles.
Vinco gallery
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- Between 10037Photo courtesy of Vinco
- Bicone 10219Photo courtesy of Vinco
- Bicone 10477 in plum and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Bicone 5 in walnut and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Bicone 6 in walnut and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Bicone 9, various woodsPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Bicone 9 half open, various woodsPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Dual Tetrahedron 11 in larch and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Dual Tetrahedron 17 in maple and walnutPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Dual Tetrahedron 20 in cherry and walnutPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Dual Tetrahedron 9 in ash, elm and plumPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Dual Tetrahedron 9 in maple, plum and walnutPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Dual tetrahedron in elm and walnutPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Flowers 10004 in maple, plum and walnutPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Flowers 10304 in maple and walnutPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Flowers 15 in cherry and walnutPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Flowers 4 in cherry, elm, maple and walnutPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Octahedron Box 7 in cherry, maple, walnut and acaciaPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Octahedron Box in plum and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Ocvalhedron 10315 in maple, plum and walnutPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Ocvalhedron 15 in plum and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Ocvalhedron 7 in plum and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Ocvalhedron 8 in walnut, elm and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Ocvalhedron 8 in walnut and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Rhombohedron 4by3 in various woodsPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Vinco Tetrahedron in maple, walnut, oak, ash and cherryPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Vinco Tetrahedron in varicoloured plumPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- Stego in plum and maplePhoto courtesy of Vinco
- 32 Knots CrossPhoto courtesy of Vinco
- 97 Knots OctahedronPhoto courtesy of Vinco
Pages in category ‘Vinco’
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