Name: 這小哥如何打造出全世界最頂級的機關盒？| Obsessed | WIRED (How This Guy Makes the World's Best Puzzle Boxes | Obsessed | WIRED)
Uploaded: 2025-11-23T00:46:39.000Z
Duration: 11 min 40 s

Meet Kagan Sound, a multi award winning woodworker and artist who's mastered the craft of designing and fabricating intricate wooden puzzle boxes.

這位是 Kagan Sound，一位屢獲殊榮的木工師傅兼藝術家，他精通設計和製造精巧的木製拼圖盒的工藝。

There's one I made that was a 5000 move box, but

我做過一個是 5000 步機關盒，但是

it took so many moves it would just wear itself out before you could really open it successfully.

它需要太多步驟，在你成功打開之前就會先磨損殆盡。

You could open it a few times, but the wooden parts would just wear out.

你可以打開幾次，但木製零件就會磨損。

No nails, just carefully interlaced wood and some glue kaging can build eye catching riddles that are a true challenge to solve.

沒有釘子，只有精心交錯的木材和一些膠水，kaging 可以打造出引人注目的謎題，這些謎題是真正的挑戰。

This is the hedgehog is currently locked.

Each piece has essentially a notch and a slider underneath.

每個零件基本上都有一個凹槽和一個滑塊。

They block each other until they're moved out of the way.

So every time I move a piece, it's unlocking the next piece to move which unlocks the next piece.

所以我每次移動一個零件，就是在解鎖下一個可以移動的零件，然後再解鎖下一個。

My favorite feature of this is actually not all the sliding moves, but

我最喜歡它的地方其實不是所有的滑動步驟，

the way that the lid comes off by twisting.

而是蓋子是透過扭轉來取下的。

I find that really surprising and really satisfying.

我覺得這真的令人驚訝，也讓人非常滿足。

It has a sort of tension to it that's really beautiful.

This box is called the Hex Flex and this is how you unlock it.

這個盒子叫做 Hex Flex，這就是如何解鎖它。

This is a box that I really pushed the boundaries on the material in an absolutely insane direction.

這個盒子是我將材料的極限推向了絕對瘋狂的方向。

The box was in the international Puzzle Party design competition.

這個盒子參加了國際拼圖派對設計比賽。

It took both top awards, therefore making it the puzzle of the year 2023.

它贏得了兩個最高獎項，是以被評選為2023年度最佳拼圖。

So not only is it an amazing puzzle, it's an amazing box.

所以它不僅是一個超讚的拼圖，也是一個超讚的盒子。

And each of these puzzles begins its life in Kagan's home wood shop.

而這些拼圖的每一個，都在Kagan的自家木工坊裡誕生。

But as far as woodworking is concerned, I'm entirely self taught at that.

但就木工這方面來說，我完全是自學成才的。

All the tools over in this area are for processing the wood and breaking it down into smaller and smaller bits.

這一區的所有工具都是用來處理木材，並將其分解成越來越小的碎塊。

Over here I'm usually testing out finishes.

這邊我通常是在測試表面處理。

A lot of times if I can determine a finish for a particular kind of wood, it will unlock project in itself.

很多時候，如果我能確定某種木材的表面處理方式，這本身就能解鎖一個專案。

Moving over here, we have one of the current projects underway.

移到這邊，我們有一個正在進行中的專案。

And in order to solve it, you actually have to find just the right spot to push to pop out a bookmark.

要解開它，你必須找到正確的推動點，才能彈出書籤。

And then it's used actually to unlock the box itself.

然後它實際上是用來解鎖盒子本身的。

So as the work flows over in this direction here, these are tools for cutting little miniature tracks and miniature notches into the working parts.

所以，隨著工作流程朝這個方向進行，這些是用來在零件上切割微小的軌道和凹槽的工具。

As the box comes together, I start to grab more and more hand tools to do the fine tuning of the piece and Then the main stage, where everything's taking place in a project really is my workbench here.

隨著盒子的組裝，我會開始拿起越來越多的手工具來進行零件的精細調整，然後專案真正發生的主要階段就是我的工作臺。

As this piece comes together, it'll look something like this, which has a final finish on it and functions as a puzzle box.

這件作品組裝起來會像這樣，有最終的表面處理，並且功能就像一個拼圖盒。

I named it after the pattern of pluses on the top that I created out of two different colors of wood.

我之所以取這個名字，是因為頂部有我用兩種不同顏色木材製作的十字圖案。

The clicking mechanism is created entirely by wooden part.

這個卡榫機關完全是由木製零件構成的。

It has an actual wooden spring that clicks into little notches.

它有一個真正的木製彈簧，會卡進小小的凹槽裡。

I have an example of the wooden spring in a mechanism that rotates but accomplishes the same thing.

我有一個機關的木製彈簧範例，它可以旋轉，但功能是一樣的。

The spring is this little chunk of wood in here with little notches cut in it, and

這個彈簧是這裡一小塊木頭，上面切了一些小凹槽，

it will click when it hits this notch area here.

當它碰到這裡的凹槽區域時，就會發出喀噠聲。

And really, all it is is just a piece of wood with a few lines cut into it from opposing directions.

它其實只是一塊木頭，上面從相對方向切了幾條線。

So that's the same spring that's inside of this box.

所以這就是這個盒子裡面的彈簧。

In Multiple Kagan's newest creation, the cafe wallbox, is in process in his workshop, ready to be actualized.

在 Kagan 的最新創作 cafe wallbox 中，它正在他的工作室中製作，準備實現。

I have the four basic walls of what will become my puzzle box.

我有構成我拼圖盒的四個基本牆面。

I've now put in a very thick, big saw blade that's going to cut notches into the wood, and

我現在裝上了一片非常厚、很大的鋸片，它將會把凹槽切到木頭上，

the notches are going to create the joinery that holds together those two rectangles and creates the corner edge of these boxes.

這些凹槽將會形成接合處，將那兩個長方形固定在一起，並構成這些盒子的邊角。

This cut will need to be at an angle so that I can make what's called a dovetail track.

這個切口需要是傾斜的，這樣我才能做出所謂的鳩尾槽。

It's a shape of a trapezoid, the function of housing a slider that's also a trapezoid.

它是一個梯形，功能是容納一個同樣是梯形的滑塊。

it will stay attached to the box but have the ability to go back and forth.

它會固定在盒子裡，但可以前後移動。

So that was just one side of each of the trapezoid notches.

所以這只是梯形凹槽其中一側的製作。

I'm going to cut the other side of that same notch now.

我現在要切這個相同凹槽的另一側。

Now what I'm going to do is take these little pieces of wood with my notches and use this tool called the router, to remove all the material in between these two little notches I made after machining notches into these pie wood, I now have a dovetail track.

我現在要做的是，拿著這些有凹槽的小木片，用這個叫做「修邊機」的工具，把我在這兩個小凹槽之間的所有材料移除，在這些「派木」上加工出凹槽後，我就有了一個燕尾槽。

After machining, I'll have to come around with a chisel to trim leftover fuzzy material or parts that the machine couldn't get to and make it a clean, precise dovetail track.

加工完之後，我得用鑿刀來修掉機器沒辦法處理到的、或是機器沒辦法弄乾淨的毛邊，讓它變成一個乾淨、精準的燕尾槽。

This kind of detailed woodworking is a true passion for Kagan, but

這種精巧的木工工藝是 Kagan 的熱情所在，但

his love of puzzles began long before he was building with wood.

他對拼圖的熱愛，其實在他開始用木頭創作之前就已經萌芽了。

I had always loved puzzles, but when I first saw a puzzle box.

我一直都很喜歡拼圖，但當我第一次看到一個拼圖盒時，

It was a whole nother level of puzzle interest.

那簡直是另一種層次的拼圖樂趣。

The first ones I ever made, I was in middle school, and I didn't even have wood.

我做的第一個拼圖盒，那時候我還在讀國中，甚至還沒有木頭。

It was just a box that had a move to open, but you couldn't see it.

那只是一個有隱藏機關的盒子，但你看不到。

那是一個非常神祕的滑蓋盒子。

So I carried that thought with me all the way to college and then just was dying to create this out of wood.

所以我把這個想法一直帶到大學，然後就非常渴望用木頭來製作它。

I'm almost more proud of myself for just getting myself into a place to build that box.

我幾乎為自己能夠開始製作那個盒子而感到更自豪。

It represents a lot to me, a lot more than just building.

它對我來說意義重大，遠不止是製作本身。

It was the path of finding the tools and the passion of wanting that design to be.

這是一條尋找工具和熱情的道路，渴望那個設計能夠實現。

The pinwheel box, this is working entirely on a principle in puzzles called coordinate motion.

這個風車盒子，它是完全基於拼圖中一種叫做「座標運動」的原理運作的。

they all move into each other in such a way that they also move out of the way of each other.

而且它們互相移動，以一種能夠讓開彼此的方式移動。

So each of these panels that's rectangular has a diagonal movement that goes towards the other.

所以這些長方形的面板，每一個都有一個對角線的移動，朝向另一個。

So this panel right here wants to move diagonally towards this, and

所以這個面板想要朝這個方向對角線移動，然後

then this one moves diagonally towards that.

然後這個就會朝那個方向對角線移動。

And when they all move diagonally at the same time, it allows them to.

當它們同時對角線移動時，就能讓它們。

To shift in a simultaneous dance together.

There are some puzzles I have that it would take me a while to unloc, and

我有些拼圖盒需要花點時間才能解開，

So as I'm designing these puzzle boxes, a lot of it is just contemplative.

所以我在設計這些 木製拼圖盒時，很多時候都只是在思考。

I'm just sitting thinking about how these things move in my head.

我只是坐著想這些東西在腦袋裡是怎麼運作的。

I really don't get too carried away drawing it in detail.

I'll mostly just do very rough sketches, sometimes a sequence of moves, but

我大多隻會畫很粗略的草圖，有時候會畫一連串的步驟，但是

I keep it very loose in order to give myself flexibility, because the designs really change a lot.

我會讓它很寬鬆，以便給自己彈性，因為設計真的會變很多。

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