I stumbled upon this video of Chris Ramsay in which he tells about this puzzle and it's rare and hard to find.
I thought it would be fun to recreate it with the help of 3D printing.
This model isn't an exact match to the original. I do not have it myself and used the video to recreate it as closely as possible, but some things just aren't visible in the video. Also I took a guess at the dimensions and had to change the swords so it would be possible to print them without supports.
Because Chris ‘cheated’ in his video by writing down the positions of the swords when removing them. I made slots in the stand to place the swords. This adds another layer of difficulty,.
There's 2 versions of the box, one without a designation and one with arrows pointing to the top (These have ‘DT’ in the file name). If you want a real challenge, print the one without the arrows, so you also have to find out the orientation of the box.
Of course you can just glue it to the stand if you like it better that way.
Finally, you can turn it up to 11!
I added 2 extra swords, if you print these it adds extra difficulty to solving the puzzle.
I used 0.12mm layer height, but 0.2 should also work.
For the Box supports are needed, but do not use the auto support generation of your slicer.
The supports are needed in the slots at the front and back of the box.
See the picture below how I placed them. This makes them easy to remove.
Use the following drawings to determine the axact placing of the supports:
I'll post a photo of my print later this week.
The author marked this model as their own original creation.