{"id":1765,"date":"2023-09-27T00:39:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T00:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2024-12-05T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T19:19:28","slug":"fools-gold-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2023\/09\/27\/fools-gold-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fool’s Gold Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lovely hand-cut puzzle from Fool’s Gold in New Hampshire. Beautiful packaging — box, puzzle reveal photo in a nice little bag, instructions on measuring the puzzle (with a puzzle-assembled ruler) to test whether your assemblage was correct or “forced” …. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shiny bag material in which the puzzle was shared is so familiar to me … I realize if it’s probably not literally the same fabric that I used to craft a superhero cape for one of my child’s Halloween costumes years ago …. it’s probably not, but still! I love to imagine that my worlds might have connected in such small and miraculous ways! At the least, it triggered a happy memory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The puzzle pieces themselves were quite beautiful — solid wood with a veneer, which is a bit different than a plywood. (I worry about the mahogany veneer — is it FSC-certified?) The pieces have a lovely feel — polished, but not too<\/em> polished — not so polished they hide the woodiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The puzzle. I loved assembling the frame, and the individual butterflies, which were all traditional jigsaw puzzling assembly — pattern and cut matching. The interior is where it gets tough. There are many drop-outs in the cut, so no easy cut matching. Instead, it becomes a bit of a logic-puzzle challenge (how best to fit these various disparate geometric shapes into one space) with a few<\/em> jigsaw puzzle-like piece matches. There’s no pattern matching here, or very little, because the image is a collage rather than a continuous image, so the pieces are best described as color-line cut. So this is very Stave-like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, I confess — I assembled the left half of the interior, then, (excuses excuses) I was really frazzled, exhausted, and not up for a full challenge, so I looked at the solution for the second half of the interior. (It was “left half, right half” as I assembled it, but in figure 7 below, it’s bottom-half, top-half.) I had assembled one of the five similar blue butterflies backwards, but nothing else. The other half I had some pieces fitting in, but not the whole thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, look, it’s just a puzzle! I do it for self-soothing — looking at the solution is not cheating<\/em> or harming anyone else. \/self-granted expiation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, beautiful. I loved it, and am looking for more from this puzzle cutter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Hey, wood puzzle cutters. As a copyright counseling-attorney type person to creators, I do ponder effects of trading clubs and secondary markets on your ability to make a sustainable profit off this creative endeavor. But, from a purely anecdotal perspective, the Hoefnagel Wooden Puzzle Club<\/a> has turned me onto handcut puzzles, which my librarian-level income (and my interests in spending it) would never<\/em> otherwise have supported. And I, in turn, have turned quite a few people onto wooden puzzling (with handcut puzzles sure to eventually come, for some). Anecdotal, sure, but my anti-exceptionalism rule suggests to me that it is more likely that I am typical than atypical. Like libraries, I suspect that Hoefnagel not only supports the growth of the wood puzzle genre (hobby?) as a whole, but also the hand-carved puzzles as well. Surely an interesting economics paper could be written. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lovely hand-cut puzzle from Fool’s Gold in New Hampshire. Beautiful packaging — box, puzzle reveal photo in a nice little bag, instructions on measuring the puzzle (with a puzzle-assembled ruler) to test whether your assemblage was correct or “forced” …. The shiny bag material in which the puzzle was shared is so familiar to me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,613],"tags":[],"artists":[],"puzzling":[200],"makers":[283],"features":[271,184,391,356,8],"subjects":[201,9],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-completed","category-wooden-handcut","puzzling-hoefnagel-puzzle-club","makers-fools-gold-puzzles","features-color-line-cutting","features-drop-out-cutting","features-hand-cut","features-snuggle-pieces","features-wooden","subjects-butterflies","subjects-collage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PXL_20230927_023526626-scaled-e1695960318762.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"puzzling","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzling?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"makers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/makers?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"features","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/features?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subjects?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}