picture puzzles

[sjhuse]

Saw this post for other things we make and just thought I would share. I have just started turning (just made one pen so far and love it!) but I've been playing with my scroll saw for a while now. I also love photography so I put the two together to make custom photo puzzles (sometimes I use birthday or christmas cards as well).

sherry

 

[boxerman]

That's really cool. How do you cut the pieces so you know they are going fit right?

 

[jaywood1207]

Very nice Sherry. I've done them before for kids puzzles but only used 1/4" baltic birch plywood. They make great gifts and are fun to do.

 

[sjhuse]

I put the picture on the wood, cut to size and use my scroll saw to free hand cut the pieces. The only time the pieces don't fit are on the occasion that the blade isn't straight (maybe it gets dull?), you can still put them together you just may have to put the piece in through the back instead of the front.

Sometimes I make them for our son's baseball team as thier "trophy" at the end of the year - the kids always love them.

 

[glycerine]

Those are very cool!

 

[PSU1980]

That's really cool. How do you cut the pieces so you know they are going fit right?

You cut the puzzles on a scroll saw, but you have to make sure that the saw blade is square to the saw table so the pieces will fit together.

 

[W.Y.]

Real nice puzzle cutting.

Looks like you are enjoying cutting those out as much as I did back when I made a bunch of them.
They make nice gifts especially when cutting photgraphs of relatives and give them to them in pieces and see their faces light up after they have put them together . .
I glued them onto either 1/8" or 1/4" baltic birch plywood or poplar plywood. Poplar was the easiest to cut.