Pretty cool. In the Denver Art Scene I seemed to have been so entrenched in one of my lifetimes ago, there was an artist who made puzzle boxes. One day, he got an email from none other than Darren Aronofsky, asking him to make a "puzzle desk". After verifying that, yeah: it's him, he set to task to make this desk.

And it's just what you may be imagining - (except maybe you didn't expect it ALSO to be organ): there's a specific order in which you need to open and close certain drawers and such, to open a secret compartment. It took him years.

This is the artist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagen_Sound

Details of the desk:

http://www.kagenschaefer.com/pipeorgandesk.html

In action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5tenq55VPA

That video was one of the most jaw-dropping things I have seen recently. Thank you for sharing!

Mechanical puzzles come in 10 categories and that includes Twisty Puzzles such as Rubik's Cube. John Rausch maintains the largest encyclopedic web site for mechanical puzzles. https://johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/cat/category.htm There are many different designs, and one collector has over 48,000 different puzzles. Like magicians, puzzle designers, stay up late at night designing diabolical devices. Kagen's puzzle table is impressive and beautiful and his work is well-respected in the secret puzzle cabal. https://kagensound.com/Lotus4.html

LOL, so I work from within a public school board and I was wondering why none of your images are loading. Apparently we block the entire .xxx tld. So your images (and projects) hosted under *.jes.xxx don't load for me.

Just thought I'd give you a heads up.

Funny enough, last time I looked through domain prices, .xxx domains were pretty costly. So someone has gone an extra mile for the pleasure of owning one.

... Why on earth are the article's images hosted on a .xxx website? Is this specifically designed to trigger blockers and corporate proxies?

I have trouble doing a normal drawer when doing some woodwork and this person does these complicated contraptions full of surprises. Impressive work!

Craig Thibodeau is a well-known woodworker, in San Diego, who specializes in high-end marquetry and inlay, and who has increasingly been drawn to puzzle furniture. He's a former mechanical engineer.

See: https://ctfinefurniture.com

It's a nice coincidence that the guy doing this happens to be named (James) Stanley, given the long history of Stanley tools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Hand_Tools