Kattenvriendin from The Netherlands

[mark49152]

Sorry, I dragged your thread down to the level of toilet humour...

 

[Kattenvriendin]

ROFL No problem.. my humor is very versatile, the thread can handle it

 

[sneaklyfox]

Ok, it took me a bit, but figured out the "porcelain" and "holding the hair". I had no clue at first. But uh yeah... I've actually been doing that myself a fair bit lately. Marcel knows why...

 

[MarcelP]

During the last few posts I finally figured out what is meant with 'porcelain'...
The 'holding my hair' was the key.

LOL.. I knew from the start what it ment.

So, Kattenvriendin, any new PB's today? Of course we all expect new ones every day for the next 30 days or so LOL

 

[Kattenvriendin]

ROFL no, no new PBs today. I received the mini 4x4 and my Tuttminx and I was busy taking apart and reassembling that 4x4 and also mailing VeryPuzzle.

The tutt was the wrong color, but I got a big ass refund from VeryPuzzle. Wrote about it in the blog in fact.

All I can say is:

if you ever consider buying a Tuttminx, Classical Tuttminx, Void Tuttminx or a Super Star.. go to http://www.verypuzzle.com!!

They are THE best. :tu

 

[mark49152]

So, Kattenvriendin, any new PB's today? Of course we all expect new ones every day for the next 30 days or so LOL

Why - is KV pregnant as well? All these people throwing up and setting new PBs - maybe I should poison my own food

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Nope.. I am home sick due to a nice virus.

Me pregnant, that'll be the day LOL Like hell I would ever be

 

[sneaklyfox]

lol... she's not, but I am...

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Congrats Sneaklyfox!! When are you due?

 

[mark49152]

lol... she's not, but I am...

Congratulations You should put that in your sig. Btw, does labour help your PBs?

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Finally.. I have decided which color pairs to use on my new tuttminx. Man it is SO much easier when you don't have to decide for yourself /sarcasm *groan* Hehe

But it is SO much more fun when you get to decide for yourself

First thing I did was sort out the color pairs. Like with the megaminx where light is usually across from dark, those pairs. I want to do the same thing with this tuttminx, times many more colors. >.< Took me a good hour and a half that figuring out which I wanted.. pfff!!

However I managed to get color pairs sorted and (I don't think you can see this well in the pics) not getting color confused. As in.. suppose there are two colors that are very close to each other.. like on the 3x3 the blue and green was for me, you end up inserting the wrong things.


So.. without further ado, here is the picture:

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And now I have to decide what comes next to what. Getting this baby done is going to take longer than solving it I bet ROFL!

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Done stickering, on to the lubing and tensioning process. I replaced one of them yellows for an orange this morning. Some stickers are thicker than others, and the lighter yellow sticker when stuck on black became so much darker that it was the same as one of the other yellows. Can't have that now, so.. replaced. It's a very pretty cube indeed.

A pic taken last night. I'll take a daylight pic sometime when I am done with the lubing process

Spoiler

 

[MarcelP]

Wow man.. I just took a full week to solve my first Megaminx. I don't want to think about solving one of these guys Looks very nice though.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

FINALLY I am done. Man.. 32 centers to take out and lube, one by one including one piece. Then 32 faces to tension, and now it is break time and back to solving a 3x3 for a change.. lol been working on the tutt for some time straight. But here are some daylight pics. Could be better but ah well.. it's the best I can do at this time.

Spoiler

 

[mark49152]

No ridges?

 

[Gordon]

Did you cut the stickers yourself or were they 'pre-cut'?

 

[Kattenvriendin]

WHAHAHAHA ridges on a tuttminx LOL

The stickers are pre-cut. Yea the pic doesn't show it too well, but you can see better ones when you go to the sticker page on VeryPuzzle: http://www.verypuzzle.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=78

 

[sneaklyfox]

Congrats Sneaklyfox!! When are you due?

Thanks. I'm due sometime in September I think... so it's still rather early right now.

Congratulations You should put that in your sig. Btw, does labour help your PBs?

I had my 3rd a few days after I joined last year. This is my intro thread: Speedcubing Mom! I actually did get a solve recorded on video except I did not have a timer on me and the video somehow got cut a little short. It stops right on the last move or something (camera fail) but it was about 20 seconds. At the time, I was averaging about 24-25. So after I found out we're having another one, I ordered a QJ timer from Fasttech.com and hopefully this time I can make a proper video that captures the whole thing with timer and everything so I can share it! I'm hoping I can get a 15.xx solve (or better).

 

[MarcelP]

At the time, I was averaging about 24-25.

And now you are averaging 16-ish right? So about 9 seconds of your average in a year.. If I could do that I would be at the 20 seconds mark in a year Oh.. that would be nice.

 

[mark49152]

Thanks. I'm due sometime in September I think... so it's still rather early right now.

Well you've got a couple of months of vomiting to go, which is great practice time, according to KV

Seriously you do great to find the time for cubing with 3 kids around and 25s is an impressive average for only 4 months cubing, when you joined. Must be the violinist fingers i guess.