Mothers Day Puzzle

[dlrion]

This is for my mom, 80 piece puzzle on 1/4 baltic birch ply. The box is made out of Maple tops, and one solid piece of Walnut. It is not 4 pieces joined together but all cut from one 8/4 piece.

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The picture is my Daughter on my Mom's lap, and my Niece on my Dad's lap.

 

[Trent Mason]

Very nice work Dan! I know that she'll cherish it. :thumbs_up:thumbs_up

 

[farmerbw]

Sweet work bro. :icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum

What's your secret for getting such uniform pieces/shapes? I'd love to try tackling something like this, but I've yet to even set up the Hawk I got back before Christmas. :no:

Brian.

 

[Charlie]

Very nice work Dan. Great Mothers Day gift:icon_thum

 

[tjgreen]

Really nice - that box is a wonderful touch. That's just been added to my some day list, maybe once my kids are old enough to help Grandma put it together.

 

[dlrion]

Sweet work bro. :icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum

What's your secret for getting such uniform pieces/shapes? I'd love to try tackling something like this, but I've yet to even set up the Hawk I got back before Christmas. :no:

Brian.

I bought Steve Good's Puzzle piece book for $7 it has I think 10 different sizes of picture. It is pretty good. Robert turned me on to Steve Good, who is AWESOME
www.scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com.

I put the picture on the 1/4 birch, and the Puzzle pattern on a different piece, and laminated them with clear packing tape, and just cut the pattern.

 

[farmerbw]

Sweet, thanks for sharing the tip, I'm going bookmark it. :icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum

Brian.

 

[erasmussen]

The puzzle is nice, and the box looks awesome :icon_thum

 

[cskipper]

Sweet work bro. :icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum

What's your secret for getting such uniform pieces/shapes? I'd love to try tackling something like this, but I've yet to even set up the Hawk I got back before Christmas. :no:

Brian.

That almost makes me speechless! (like that could actually happen - lol).

The puzzle is great! Are you using the FD puzzle saw blades? What are you using for a finish?

 

[dlrion]

Cathy,
No I just used a FD# 3 because that is all I had. It worked alright, I should get some puzzle blades, but I was on a limited budget.... I had to work with what I already had.

I finished the box with poly, but the puzzle pieces I left unfinished because I put REALLY durable photo paper on them, and you are not supposed to put anything over the ink, or it may smear.

 

[farmerbw]

Dan, I watched the video and it was cool. I'm going to get a set of the templates and give it a try eventually, I'll butcher some scrap first since I've never used a SS.

After watching it crossed my mind that you were sort of "wasting" a piece of ply while doing the puzzle, even though you could use it and wouldn't be throwing it away. I wonder if you could do two at a time, with the pictures facing each other and the pattern on the bottom of one of them? Or do you think the pictures would stick to each other or would you not be able to get the template off of the bottom without messing up that one? :icon_scra:icon_scra:icon_scra

Just thinking of trying to get more bang for the buck and work.....i.e being cheap!!! :rotflm::rotflm:

Brian.

 

[dlrion]

Yeah, actually that is a really good point, if you applied both of the photo's spraying both the wood and the photopaper, and only sprayed one really light coat on the template, it would be easy to remove the template from the bottom of one of the puzzles with a heat gun. A little time consuming perhaps, but who cares about 15 extra minutes when you just spent 2 hours on the cutting.


That is a really good idea actually.


Dan

 

[farmerbw]

I actually thought you could put a piece of wax paper or the like between the two pics to make sure they didn't stick together.

Granted I also could just put the "waste" puzzle back together and let the kids draw on both sides of it and then topcoat with spray poly and let them have a blast with it. No real waste that way either:icon_thum

Brian.