Jigsaws

[annedonnelly]

There's cake recipes on there. When you get stuck you can go off and bake a cake

Quite pleased I don't have any jigsaws in the house. I'd never get anything done!

Just completed the Big Issue sudoko - only the second time I've ever managed it!

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Talk me through this and humour me.
It is sat on a heavy coffee table.
I cover it with cling film so it wont fall apart. Good idea that, thanks.
Do I then upturn it onto the floor?
How do I then glue it to the board?

Leave it flat, slide it onto some newspaper or greaseproof paper (just to protect the table from any drips), then seal the top surface with puzzle adhesive. You can buy it in Hobbycraft or at Amazon. I've done a couple with that stuff. Here's one that my daughter wanted to save:

Edit: You paint the sealant onto the front of the puzzle and it seeps into the joints.
If the table is too small to move the puzzle, slide the greaseproof paper under the puzzle without moving it.

Once it's sealed with adhesive (and dry) you can move it, so glue it to board, frame it, whatever you fancy.

 

[Alex H]

Did someone mention jigsaws?

 

[Dave7]

Make sure you video it to give us all a laugh.

You might even make £200, or whatever it is, by sending it to Harry Hill.

TBH thats how I feel. Every time I think of a solution I forsee a catastrophy

 

[stephec]

TBH thats how I feel. Every time I think of a solution I forsee a catastrophy

At least next time you'll remember to put the backing board down first.

 

[Archie_tect]

Talk me through this and humour me.
It is sat on a heavy coffee table.
I cover it with cling film so it wont fall apart. Good idea that, thanks.
Do I then upturn it onto the floor?
How do I then glue it to the board?

I'd edited my post after the cling film bit!

 

[Archie_tect]

I only do jigsaws of photos, paintings are awful because the artists, who jigsaw-makers can afford to paint the type of scenes they use, do vague 'chocolate-box' sentimental scenes and tend not to vary their colour hues enough so a blue sky is exactly the same colour right across the painting and all the tress are painted in the same greens everywhere...

Photos are great because of the subtle hue changes make skies and seas much easier!

[I do have other jig-saw rants to come...]

 

[Dave7]

Leave it flat, slide it onto some newspaper or greaseproof paper (just to protect the table from any drips), then seal the top surface with puzzle adhesive. You can buy it in Hobbycraft or at Amazon. I've done a couple with that stuff. Here's one that my daughter wanted to save:

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Edit: You paint the sealant onto the front of the puzzle and it seeps into the joints.
If the table is too small to move the puzzle, slide the greaseproof paper under the puzzle without moving it.

Once it's sealed with adhesive (and dry) you can move it, so glue it to board, frame it, whatever you fancy.

Right.... I can now see this happening.
Sorry @stephec but you may not get your £250

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I think this was one of my favourites, it's a Pixar artist's desk, 1000 pieces, and was just right in terms of challenge.
And they employed a good artist to paint it, possibly one of the few exceptions to @Archie_tect 's very true rule!

 

[Archie_tect]

We got a Quality Street jigsaw as a Christmas present a couple of years ago- took months and I vowed never to do it again... I turned it over and I wrote a letter and number reference for the row and column of each piece on the back of the completed puzzle so that if I ever got bored senseless and did it again I'd do it upside down finding the reference code on the back of each piece to then turn it over to reveal the finished jigsaw.

 

[Archie_tect]

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I bought, at her request, MrsPete a jigsaw..
I hope she appreciates my help!
😂

Come on, confess- those two pieces were still stuck together when you opened it....

 

[Alex H]

I only do jigsaws of photos, paintings are awful because the artists, who jigsaw-makers can afford to paint the type of scenes they use, do vague 'chocolate-box' sentimental scenes and tend not to vary their colour hues enough so a blue sky is exactly the same colour right across the painting and all the tress are painted in the same greens everywhere...

Photos are great because of the subtle hue changes make skies and seas much easier!

[I do have other jig-saw rants to come...]

Indeed - Thomas Kincade - Painter of Light (allegedly!)

I think a jigsaw should be made such that you can pick up a piece, look at the finished picture and find a place it will probably fit.

NOT

"Well, that's a blue bit so it should connect to one of the other 999 blue bits" (see above)

Our preference is for clear artwork / cartoon / photo, not wishy-washy oil paintings.

Favourite artists - Mike Jupp and Colin Thompson.

 

[Poacher]

For anyone who starts with edges and corners, try one from Wentworth puzzles. Straight lines and right angles are often in the middle of the puzzle, and the actual corners may be made up of two pieces with 30 and 60 degree angles. They usually have several "whimsy" pieces, shaped to match the theme of the puzzle, e.g. a garden picture might have whimsies in the shape of wheelbarrow, spade, trowel etc.
They're designed and made in Wiltshire, and backed on plywood, so they're pretty durable.

I have no connection with the firm, but snaffle puzzles whenever I see them in charity shops.

 

[raleighnut]

I did a jigsaw last year, really pleased as it said 4-7 years on the box and it only took me a couple of months.

 

[midlife]

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I think this was one of my favourites, it's a Pixar artist's desk, 1000 pieces, and was just right in terms of challenge.
And they employed a good artist to paint it, possibly one of the few exceptions to @Archie_tect 's very true rule!

Presumably its a computer generated image and not painted?