NEW HAND CUT WOODEN JIGSAW PUZZLE #39 237 pieces

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#39 “Algerian Girl”, 8¼” x 10½”, irregular edge, 237 pieces, 9-22-08 Image by Renoir I absolutely loved the magnificent colors Renoir used in this painting. Because of Renoir’s style I decided that simplicity in cutting would work best, well, except for all my usual and customary tricks like missing edge pieces and disappearing corners. I did cut a graceful arch through the sky and was careful not to cut across any important details in her face. I make a habit of keeping facial features intact to preserve the emotions. This one is beautiful when completed but be warned, even though it's one of my earlier puzzles it's not an easy puzzle to assemble. In fact it's downright frickking HARD! Just ask my sister Jan. Oh yeah, one more thing. Please note that photos of my puzzles are taken before final polishing of the pieces. After posting on Ebay I take the puzzle apart and carefully, well, ok, obsessively polish each piece to smooth perfection. Y’all just ignore any imperfections noticed in photo close ups ‘cause when your puzzle arrives those stray bits of whatever won’t be t The Eve Factor: I didn't write it down dad gummit. My sister-in-law Eve is an expert puzzler and familiar with all of my evil, wicked tricks. She is my puzzle tester. No picture, no peeks, no hints, only a box, suddenly appearing on the dining room table, beckoning. I get a report remarkably soon after telling me how long it took her to put together. Sometime she’ll tell me what gave her fits. She used to tell me what household thing she had to skip doing because of the puzzle but now she looks expectantly for the next puzzle to show up and goes into withdrawals when I take too long! Just who is The Puzzle Junkie? Puzzle Junkie—definition. Anybody who absolutely MUST do a jigsaw puzzle, NOW. Everything comes to a screeching halt. The social order of the day is abandoned to the detriment of everyone and everything in the household. A jigsaw puzzle comes out and the world stops until the true puzzle junkie has satisfied their craving. Only then can normal life can go on--until the next time. I am a fifth generation Puzzle Junkie. I grew up putting together the puzzles my great-great-grandfather cut. I've developed my own cutting style but from his puzzles and cutting style I learned every mean, wicked, frustratingly diabolical trick I know. Every puzzle I cut, no matter how big or small, will have some, maybe all of these tricks in them somew Missing edge pieces, hidden corners, dropouts, inside straight pieces, fake corner pieces, split knobs and slots, irregular edges and my very favorite, color line cutting which absolutely does not include “hint knobs”. Each puzzle also has a completely interlocking border to easily contain whichever pieces may or may not be “tricked”. My great-great grandpa did this to my grandmother, my mother and to me so I’m doing the very same wonderfully evil thing to ya’ll. If you're a true puzzle junkie like me, you'll love it too! Wood and Blades. I LOVE cutting puzzles. Because doing what I love includes having fun at it I use three ply, 5/32” thick Finland Birch—renowned among professional puzzle cutters as one of the finest, strongest ply woods to cut. This wood allows me to cut the fine curves, points and details that each picture tells me to put into it. Also allowing exquisitely fine detail cutting are the famous Flying Dutchman Blades I use that are 8/1000 of an inch thick. A smaller blade makes the fine cuts a bit tight and hard to take apart, any larger makes the cuts unacceptably loose. Images. The pictures I use have been culled from three decades of collecting. Calendars and postcards mainly, sometimes an Internet picture. One of these days my own photographs as well as my grandmother's and nephew's original art will be used for my puzzles . I hit the sales right after last Christmas for a restock on half price Calendars. Fabulous stuff! Whatever image I use must pass my own critical eye as “that would make a GREAT puzzle”, one I... read more

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