Such a very nice puzzle. I love the intricacy of the wooden ones. This one surprised me a bit- I actually got a few momentary false fits. Many of the ‘knobs’ had the same shape and size, so if the color and pattern was close, I might put it in the wrong place accidentally. Never had that happen with a wooden puzzle before! The visual cut glass pattern added some complexity to a picture already made more difficult with the crazy random piece cut, so it was good this only had 200 pieces! Nineteen of those were shaped, the ones people call ‘whimsy’ pieces. There’s a sun, various flowers and insects, birds, a leaf and a potted flower plant. My favorite is the rabbit.
This puzzle is cut from basswood. The completed size is about 11.5″ diameter. I like the circular shape. And the lustrous colors. There was one odd detail I couldn’t understand what I was looking at- this golden bit in the sky between the monarch butterfly and the largest sunflower. I think it’s some petals blowing in the wind? Not sure. (Look close and you can see the parrot whimsy shape).
I took a photo at the end with the puzzle flipped over, to see cut arrangement. Fairly clean- very little burnt edges. And no, I didn’t miss any of the whimsies when I was sorting them out (I kept thinking there should be one more, to make it an even twenty).
Finished size 11.25″ diameter. Assembly:
