With lack of steady employment, people turned to puzzles and other forms of home entertainment instead of outside entertainment like restaurants and nightclubs. Many unemployed architects, carpenters, and other craftsmen made their own jigsaw puzzles for sale or rent.
As the puzzle craze of the s continued, drugstores and circulating libraries offered puzzles for rent; they charged cents per day depending on the size of the puzzle. For a brief time in , retail stores offered free puzzles with the purchase of toothbrushes, flashlights, and hundreds of other products. By the time World War II ended in the late s, the sales of wooden jigsaw puzzles went into a sharp decline. This was because rising wages increased the labor costs of hand cutting the pieces.
At the same time, improvements in the lithography and die cutting processes which had been introduced decades earlier made the cardboard puzzles more attractive. The Springbok Company, one major manufacturer, began making puzzles based on high quality reproductions of fine works of art. Hundreds of thousands of Americans struggled to assemble Jackson Pollock's "Convergence," when Springbok introduced it in By the late s, wooden puzzles had practically vanished.
However in the mids, Stave Puzzles was founded on the belief that there was still an audience for high quality wooden puzzles. Their success has proven them correct, and in the last 25 years, a number of small custom wooden puzzle manufactures have helped re-popularize wooden puzzles. Virtually any artwork can be used for puzzle making but most major manufactures use lithographic prints because they are high quality, inexpensive, and easily mass produced.
Many of the pictures used in puzzles are based on famous photographs or paintings, but some custom puzzle makers let the customer supply their own photographs or pictures. Mass market puzzle manufacturers use card-board also known as chipboard as a backing material because it is cheap and easy to cut. Higher quality custom-made puzzles still use wood, usually in 5-ply birch.
In both cases, adhesive is used to bond the artwork to the backing material. The original wood puzzles were cut with jigsaws, also known as scroll saws, and customized wooden puzzles are still made that way today. These saws have a vertical blade that goes up and down through a fixed horizontal table. The puzzle sheet is guided through the blade by hand to cut the desired pieces. The blades used today are very fine, about 0. This allows intricate cuts to be made, which take out very little wood, so the puzzles fit together well.
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Depending on the tools you have at your disposal, you can make a more traditional jigsaw puzzle from wood, or you can make a simpler puzzle with cardboard. Either way, friends and family will love putting together your handcrafted puzzles! To make a puzzle, choose a picture or design, like a favorite photograph, and have it enlarged and printed.
Then, you should glue the picture to a puzzle backing, which could be craft-quality cardboard or plywood. After the glue has dried, spray an even coat of lacquer over the top of the photograph and let it dry. The next day, turn the photograph over and draw a grid on the back with squares that are about 1". Then use a printed off templates to trace and begin cutting puzzle pieces. For more information about what backing to use, scroll down.
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By using our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article parts. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Article Summary. Part 1. Choose a picture or design. You can print a photograph to use for your puzzle image, draw or create your own, or even use a card, poster, or any other printed image. For a photograph, choose a high-resolution image, and size it based on how large you want your puzzle to be.
Print it off or have it developed at a photo lab according to your specifications. Using your favorite medium, draw or paint your image directly onto the paper. You can also create your own puzzle image on a computer, and then print it off like a photograph. Select a puzzle backing. Plywood is more durable and traditional, but this will only work if you have a saw at your disposal and are confident in your skill with that tool. Cutting out a puzzle is delicate work and requires experience.
You can also use a good quality cardboard to back your puzzle. This will be much easier to work with, and can be cut with scissors.
Craft-quality cardboard can be found at most craft stores.
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