I do wooden jigsaw puzzles and take pictures of them.
Boardwalk Puzzles, 448 pieces. This was a great intro to this laser cutter. I really enjoyed the tesselated and semi-tesselated whimsies scattered throughout. 4/5
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| classic lizards |
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| classic birds |
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| seahorses |
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| a flock of birds |
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| classic butterflies |
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| leaves |
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| more leaves |
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| also leaves |
Anne Belle Thompson, 166 pieces/196 pieces. Same artist, very nice colors with unusual dimensions. 3/5
Platinum Puzzles, 72 pieces. Clever teaser-like structure with only a few hints of overall shape (the teaser pieces roughly surround the central image) and nice colors. 7/10 Stave scale
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| crystal whimsies |
Anne Belle Thompson, 145 pieces. The thicker MDF here than today's laser-cut puzzles gives this a nice hand feel which contributes to the homey vibe of the puzzle. 3/5
Platinum Puzzles, 69 pieces. Another teaser-type puzzle, again very enjoyable. The frame pieces made this simpler but by no means very easy. 6/10 Stave scale
Platinum Puzzles, 69 pieces. I really like the Stave version of this too--you know there's a starfish shape, but there are no guard rails/frame pieces so it takes until nearly the end of assembly to get the shape. Took many, many hours to assemble! 6/10 Stave scale
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| some hours later |
Artifact, 302 pieces. Nice impressionistic colors. 3/5
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| I really like how the shape interacts with the image here |
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| fisherman with very big pole |
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277 pieces total (267/10), Thom Spencer/Jigsaw Art. Spencer's cutting is wildly varied, and with a puzzle like this, it's all about finding the shapes because the colors are individual. This isn't even a four-color map puzzle--sometimes adjacent pieces have the same colors and sometimes not. Tremendous fun. 8/10 Stave scale.
Mr. Bob, 651 pieces. Sturdy, relatively thick pieces, some basic whimsies. The charm comes from the letters spelling out PASSION, and then there's a fair amount of blue sky though there are a couple of things flying around in the sky on closer inspection that mean more variety than you might initially think. 3/5
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| Mr Bob interacting whimsy |
Artifact, 346 pieces. Some nice touches--the lamp whimsy that actually is part of the edge is my favorite--in this somewhat gloomy Hopper painting. 3/5
Jigsaw Art/Thom Spencer, 292 pieces. Very difficult--the blue isn't completely consistent and there are no clues about how it interacts with the plainer wood, other than being roughly in a line. 6/10 Stave scale
