Lee Krasnow is a full time puzzlemaker currently based out of San Francisco, California. Several years ago he downloaded Stewart Coffin's Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections along with the other reference material available online and started making puzzles. Determined to produce fine-art quality pieces, Lee adapted some of Stewart's jigs into precision machined versions that help him cut extremely accurate puzzles.

As a full-time designer and manufacturer, Lee has established a reputation as one of the world's finest craftsmen of rhombododecahedral burr puzzles -- his creations are often as expensive and time consuming to make as they are beautiful to look at and pleasing to play with. Several of his designs have received prominent recognition in the prestegious IPP Design Comeptition.

Lee has the following to say about himself:

I have been an avid woodworker from early childhood -- I used to make little creations from scraps of wood lying around the house as I grew up. My interest in puzzles began at 12 years old when I saw a Japanese puzzle box in a movie. Shortly thereafter I built a sliding-panel box of my own design, and continued to do this as a hobby throughout my teen years.

I was pursuing a math and computer degree at Harvey Mudd College when I read Stewart Coffin's Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections and found myself more excited about making puzzles than I had ever been about anything else. Following this passion, I have been making a living as a designer and manufacturer of finely crafted mechanical puzzles for the past five years.

In addition to my puzzling pursuits, I am also an avid computer programmer and web designer. I like to play the cello when I can find the time, but lately time has been a commodity that I can never seem to find enough of. My creative nature leaves me with a continually growing list of projects competing for my attention.

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