Before cutting I remove all the curved lines. This would be useful if you wanted to produce a solution drawing. In the construction image you can see I curved the ends of puzzle pieces, this creates a closed area for each puzzle piece which can then be coloured to make it much easier to show which part goes where. Once the knot work was drawn I was able to break it down into the constituent parts. I used a digital version I created previously. The knot work was drawn with the aid of Black Oak Games knotwork dice, these clever die allow you to create fancy knotworks by placing die down and turning them round until you're happy with the shape. The whole thing can be put into a tray to suggest the overall shape of the knot but the internal route will always remain a question. The thread goes over and under itself a within a single knot, lines within the drawing show which thread is on top and cutting some of these lines turn the knotwork into a puzzle. In this version of the puzzle the shapes are themed like the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac.Ĭeltic Knots use interlacing patterns to describe a knotwork shape. There are 12 different ways to assemble 5 cubes, these form the basic pentominoes. This pentomino puzzle was one of the first I ever remember receiving. More complicated tray puzzles usually involve you putting a number of shapes into a single hole and trying to find a way to get them all to fit. (I realise my tray is wrongly labelled but I corrected it in the file I'm sharing here) I put the names onto the board using Hershey Text which is quick to cut and looks good. Inkscape has a function that allows you to easily trace images, they just needed a bit of cleaning up and they were ready to cut. I drew this Pokemon tray puzzle using the silhouettes from Pokemon Go. Puzzle trays for children usually involve multiple holes that match the shapes being put into them. You get a tray and some pieces and the task is to put all the pieces back into the tray. Tray puzzles are exactly what they sound like. I can't believe I hadn't made a jigsaw on my laser before this challenge, the whole thing only took a few minutes to prepare and it can be infinitely customisable with whatever image you want on your puzzle. I took a sample section of jigsaw puzzle from wikimedia, this was already in a suitable vector format, ripe for cutting. Once the image is drawn then it is a simple matter to cut the jigsaw into tight pieces. You can transfer colour images onto the surface wood using a technique like this one, or the laser cutter is capable of engraving a greyscale image onto the surface of the material. There are a few ways to get the images onto a wooden cut jigsaw puzzles. This means the parts fit together snugly straight out of the machine. The laser is very good for making jigsaws because the cut width, or kerf, is only 0.1mm wide. The jigsaw puzzle is a classic staple of puzzling, the first jigsaw was cut around 1760 (by hand obviously) and they usually consist of a picture cut into small interlocking pieces.
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