Welcome To Purple Martin Puzzles

The Process

Your puzzle begins it's life as 1/4" or 6mm premium grade birch plywood. This plywood has superior strength and no internal voids or hollows and will not bend or tear apart like cardboard.

Next, I take a picture or a print from an artist and carefully glue it to the plywood. The picture or print is either purchased by you or I can order one of your choosing from an artist featured in my Art Gallery.

I study the picture to decide what the best method or style would be used that would give the most unique appearance and challenge.

I then cut out your puzzle using one or more of the techniques I use as I see most appropriate for the print. I include several figurals that would relate to the "theme" of the print or specifically requested by you.

Your puzzle is then sanded as required and re-assembled for a piece count and quality check. It is then boxed up and shipped to you.

Included in the puzzle box and on the back of each puzzle is the Artist's name, the name of the work (when known), my name, the date cut, the number of pieces and the serial number.

There will be NO picture of the completed puzzle. As was the tradition of Great Uncle Carlton and many fellow wooden puzzle craftswomen and craftsmen, I believe there is more fun and challenge to putting the puzzles together without a picture to compare it with.

As I get more samples of my styles, I will post them on this page.