Carter Johnson
Established Member
Hello, my British Brethren...
I'm glad we now have a section of this forum devoted just to us scurrilous scrollers. Here is my initial contribution: a link of one of my Picture Trail albums that will show off the "jigsaws" (what we US folks call "jigsaw puzzles") that I cut.
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/vie ... &members=1
The pieces (shown in both front and back views) are cut freehand from 1/4" plywood, sometimes b. birch but more often poplar or oak. I use no patterns and try to cut along color lines, having deliberately selected pictures (usually from calendars) that have images within them to cut out.
Most of my puzzles are 300 to 400 pieces. I don't sell them but have over 350 in my basement that I loan out to families of friends. In addition, all of our Christmas cards for the past ten years have been puzzles and I have 9 cards cut for 2007 (about 75 to go).
I welcome comments and am happy to give any help to anyone wanting to try this rewarding and phun (a favorite "word" of mine) aspect of scrolling.
Best wishes for the forum.........Carter
I'm glad we now have a section of this forum devoted just to us scurrilous scrollers. Here is my initial contribution: a link of one of my Picture Trail albums that will show off the "jigsaws" (what we US folks call "jigsaw puzzles") that I cut.
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/vie ... &members=1
The pieces (shown in both front and back views) are cut freehand from 1/4" plywood, sometimes b. birch but more often poplar or oak. I use no patterns and try to cut along color lines, having deliberately selected pictures (usually from calendars) that have images within them to cut out.
Most of my puzzles are 300 to 400 pieces. I don't sell them but have over 350 in my basement that I loan out to families of friends. In addition, all of our Christmas cards for the past ten years have been puzzles and I have 9 cards cut for 2007 (about 75 to go).
I welcome comments and am happy to give any help to anyone wanting to try this rewarding and phun (a favorite "word" of mine) aspect of scrolling.
Best wishes for the forum.........Carter