Where do you buy most of your cubes?

[Neroflux]

國丙 is type c, dude.

國甲 2 is the one with bumps.

 

[Faz]

Wow, a quality thread by jcuber for once

Puzzleproz - good quality, but it took ages to get to Australia

Huskyomega - Cheap..ish. Nothing wrong with this place

Cube4you/Cubefans: Takes a bit long to get to Aus and its expensive, but the range of prodcts is what makes me shop there.

v-cubes: They lost track of my order and sent it 3 weeks late, but my v5 is A-ok.

 

[GerrySly]

Cube4you/Cubefans: Takes a bit long to get to Aus and its expensive, but the range of prodcts is what makes me shop there.

Really? Took them 3 days to ship the order and 4 days till it got here...

 

[Faz]

Cube4you/Cubefans: Takes a bit long to get to Aus and its expensive, but the range of prodcts is what makes me shop there.

Really? Took them 3 days to ship the order and 4 days till it got here...

Wow thats fast - i have ordered 3 times from cubefans and it has taken about 3 weeks each time.

 

[Wacky]

i heard that huskyomega's screw&spring sets are very good~~

also, i recommend a very good website:

www.unicube.tw/Cart/Default.aspx

he sells the chinese DIY and, the more expansive ones, the rubik's DIY

he also sells void cube and mirror blocks (bump cube)




did u guyz know that most of the new diy cubes on cube4u are chinese BRANDS??

國甲: DIY cubes that has a extra bump of 'track' on the pieces, and have weird logos 'carved' on one of the center caps (type a on cube4u)
EX: http://www.cube4you.com/393_Black-DIYKit-3x3x3-Cube-II-(a).html
國丙: Type f on cube4u

國優: i'll update later

My Chinese is quite bad - for the 2,4,5 order cubes,

I'm guessing 東賢 = Eastsheen
but what is 台製 ? Is it some kind of Taiwanese knockoff?

 

[Neroflux]

i heard that huskyomega's screw&spring sets are very good~~

also, i recommend a very good website:

www.unicube.tw/Cart/Default.aspx

he sells the chinese DIY and, the more expansive ones, the rubik's DIY

he also sells void cube and mirror blocks (bump cube)




did u guyz know that most of the new diy cubes on cube4u are chinese BRANDS??

國甲: DIY cubes that has a extra bump of 'track' on the pieces, and have weird logos 'carved' on one of the center caps (type a on cube4u)
EX: http://www.cube4you.com/393_Black-DIYKit-3x3x3-Cube-II-(a).html
國丙: Type f on cube4u

國優: i'll update later

My Chinese is quite bad - for the 2,4,5 order cubes,

I'm guessing 東賢 = Eastsheen
but what is 台製 ? Is it some kind of Taiwanese knockoff?

台製 is probably 'made in taiwan'.

 

[Hadley4000]

Most of my DIYs from Puzzleproz

 

[jcuber]

Fazrulz,

Uh... Thanks? (I think)

I do know now that alot of my threads are "use the search function" ones, but usually the search function doesn't find things that actually relate to what you searched for. Also, someone should find every thread on the different kinds and brands of cubes, compile all of it in one thread, and delete all the ones that were compiled (all of them). Just an idea.

Sorry, just found the sticky. why don't other people look at them?

 

[daniel0731ex]

國丙 is type c, dude.

國甲 2 is the one with bumps.

oops, my bad...
sorry about that

i checked again, it seemed that type f is 國乙 (EDIT: actually,國乙is type b)

also, both type a II and III has the bumps


台製: made in taiwan. it is sometimes reffered as 汎韋, whick is the Famwealth 3X3 that huskyomega sells. this cube doesnt have screws & springs. instead, it's got a tenon design which makes it a poor cube. but the pieces are actually quite good, so huskyomega did a modification that turned it almost as good as a diy cube. the tutorial is here (it's chinese though, but the pic says everything)

國優: a chinese brand. it is very cheap and is actually quite good for speedcubing, despite that they are mostly 'lemons' (u wont have this problem if u buy them from unifish).




PS: www.unicube.tw is temperarily not available for orders because he is going on a honeymoon LOLOLOLOL

 

[Wacky]

台製: made in taiwan. it is sometimes reffered as 汎韋, whick is the Famwealth 3X3 that huskyomega sells.

But on:
http://www.unicube.tw/Cart/List.aspx?Type=2&Page=1
the A5 are described as A5:台製5x5[魔術方塊=magic cube], which looks like an Eastsheen, i.e. would you know whether that is supposed to be a knockoff rather than a real eastsheen?

 

[daniel0731ex]

台製: made in taiwan. it is sometimes reffered as 汎韋, whick is the Famwealth 3X3 that huskyomega sells.

But on:
http://www.unicube.tw/Cart/List.aspx?Type=2&Page=1
the A5 are described as A5:台製5x5[魔術方塊=magic cube], which looks like an Eastsheen, i.e. would you know whether that is supposed to be a knockoff rather than a real eastsheen?

ok.

there are 2 taiwaese brands: eastsheen and famwealth

the word台製means 'made in taiwan', which could be refered to either brands

however, eastsheen doesn't produce 3X3 cubes, and famwealth doesnt make big cubes(edit: they actually do, but it's really rare and sucks very much)



P.S: wamfealth actually have international patients for their crappy tenon designs, weird huh? (OLL!)

 

[Hadley4000]

台製: made in taiwan. it is sometimes reffered as 汎韋, whick is the Famwealth 3X3 that huskyomega sells.

But on:
http://www.unicube.tw/Cart/List.aspx?Type=2&Page=1
the A5 are described as A5:台製5x5[魔術方塊=magic cube], which looks like an Eastsheen, i.e. would you know whether that is supposed to be a knockoff rather than a real eastsheen?

ok.

there are 2 taiwaese brands: eastsheen and famwealth

the word台製means 'made in taiwan', which could be refered to either brands

however, eastsheen doesn't produce 3X3 cubes, and famwealth doesnt make big cubes(edit: they actually do, but it's really rare and sucks very much)



P.S: wamfealth actually have international patients for their crappy tenon designs, weird huh? (OLL!)

Famwealth cubes suck. Lofty has one. Well, kind of. He left it at my house after Decatur Open. I did a few solves on it. I average around 25 now, and I can't get sub-40 on it.

 

[daniel0731ex]

台製: made in taiwan. it is sometimes reffered as 汎韋, whick is the Famwealth 3X3 that huskyomega sells.

But on:
http://www.unicube.tw/Cart/List.aspx?Type=2&Page=1
the A5 are described as A5:台製5x5[魔術方塊=magic cube], which looks like an Eastsheen, i.e. would you know whether that is supposed to be a knockoff rather than a real eastsheen?

ok.

there are 2 taiwaese brands: eastsheen and famwealth

the word台製means 'made in taiwan', which could be refered to either brands

however, eastsheen doesn't produce 3X3 cubes, and famwealth doesnt make big cubes(edit: they actually do, but it's really rare and sucks very much)



P.S: wamfealth actually have international patients for their crappy tenon designs, weird huh? (OLL!)

Famwealth cubes suck. Lofty has one. Well, kind of. He left it at my house after Decatur Open. I did a few solves on it. I average around 25 now, and I can't get sub-40 on it.

agreed

famwealth was my very first cube that i got(from taiwan), now they ended up becoming a diy cube lol

(i modified them with huskyomega's method. Tutorial)

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

the majority of my collection probably came from cube4you.
9spuzzles, puzl.co.uk, and rubiks.com are good too

 

[MichaelErskine]

Free international delivery was just too tempting and I just ordered this DIY 3x3x3 for £4.40

My dealextreme DIY arrived today and thankfully it was complete. It came with 2 sets of stickers but I've used a set of cubesmith bright stickers instead to see if they're a good colour choice for the poor lighting conditions in my house (energy-saving bulbs ). I've heard it's a Type-C, not that that means anything to me!. Compared against with my puzl.co.uk speedcube, the cubies appear to be fractionally less rounded (like a Rubik's store-bought) but other than that the corner and edge pieces appear to be exactly the same. The centre caps are certainly different and much tighter than the puzl. I've set it up slightly tight and lubed it and it feels almost the same as the puzl when solving. Now I just have to get used to the neon cubesmith colours!

 

[daniel0731ex]

i was wrong...

famwealth cubes are just ripoffs from meffert's. they even put the Gold Medal award at the Inventors Convention onto their packaging box, and mispelling the 'gold medal' as 'cold medal' O_o