Not only do I enjoy the process of cutting out wood jigsaw puzzles I also enjoy putting them together! One of the puzzle cutters that I follow is Mark Cappitella. He owns Pinnacle Puzzles (also MGC puzzles) and I really admire his work. He definitely has had an impact on how I cut my own puzzles. I have always wanted to get a puzzle from him but he is a bit out of my price range (similar to Stave Puzzles). However, he has cut a couple of puzzles for Victory Puzzles out of the UK. They take his master cut and translate it into a file to create a laser cut version of his design. He showed some of his work cutting out Victory Over Gold (celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings) on his youtube channel. Victory announced this as a Limited Edition puzzle for $135 dollars, still painful but doable and I put in my order that puzzle.
I received this back in November but hadn't had the time to pull it out till last week. It was everything I hoped for. A fantastic image cut by a master puzzle maker and it had me scratching my head for about a week. I loved every minute of it. Definitely one of the hardest puzzles I have put together (probably just edges out the D&RGW Colorado Map image form Liberty Puzzles). The multiple bands of colors combined with the free form pieces made for quite the challenge. I didn't even bother trying to pull edge pieces out, as is the case with most wood puzzles the designers go to a lot of effort to hide the edges and the corners. If you are looking for a challenge for your next puzzle this is a great one!
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| The colors are a bit off but they are pretty close. |
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