We can make a puzzle specially for you
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Your puzzle will be made from plantation-grown hoop pine plywood. The puzzle size, cutting style, the number and size of pieces, and the selection of whimsies/silhouette pieces are all negotiable. We can assist with artwork, scanning, digital manipulation, and printing |
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Cost
We do not cut to preset templates so we do not have a list of standard charges. For guidance, an ~A4 sized puzzle cut
into 24 pieces will cost between $42 (strip cut) - $100 (unique jigsaw) or into 150 pieces between AUD$90 (strip cut) and $AUD350 (unique jigsaw). Contact us to discuss possibilities.
Size
Maximum overall size for an interlocking strip cut puzzle is ~55 x 55 cm. If sides are in the ratio ~2:3, maximum size is ~43 x 65 cm. Larger sizes are possible if the puzzle is cut into panels or if it is laser cut.
Options
The puzzle size, cutting style, the number of pieces, and the selection of whimsies/silhouette
pieces are all negotiable. Whimsies are included in the price of unique puzzles. Add $20 per whimsy for their inclusion in stip cut puzzles.
The puzzle image. Jigsaws can be cut from most images on paper (subject to copyright laws), including paintings, computer scanned images, and personal photographs (annual reports or other publications are often good sources of images for corporate puzzles).
For advice about the options available to you see choosing a puzzle
Strip cut puzzles
Our most popular made-to-order jigsaws. These puzzles are packaged, usually in assembled form, in plastic. The motivational puzzle below is strip cut
Unique puzzles
Our most expensive made-to-order puzzles. These are cut into pieces with complex shapes and include whimsies and/or sculpting. Each of these jigsaws has a unique identifying number on a signature piece. Packaged in wooden boxes. The house below is a unique jigsaw
Examples of made to order puzzles
Larger version of images available on clicking |
Marriage
proposal puzzles have had a 100% success rate |
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100 x 70 mm, 4 piece jigsaw given to participants at a sales conference. Design discussed by email and final image delivered as a file. |
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1200
x 1200 mm floor puzzle cut into 16 pieces for the cancer council. Puzzles
this size are laser cut. |
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Business logo represented by discarding slivers of wood from a jigsaw, ie, this puzzle does not have an applied image. Puzzle designed by aupuzzle. 100 x 100 mm, 34 pieces |
Motivational, strip cut jigsaw made for training of athletes. These simple puzzles can still incorporate features not found in cardboard jigsaws. 550 x 650 mm, 80 pieces | |
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Business logo as a jigsaw. Logo was redrawn for the puzzle. 100 mm, 31 pieces including one silhouette piece and complex cutting |
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Very small leaf-shaped puzzle we made for ourselves. 70 mm long, 4 pieces |
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Jigsaw image selected from aupuzzle collection by client. Given as a Christmas present. Personalised with silhouette pieces and drop-outs (JC+T in lower right corner are dropouts). 200 x 300 mm, 225 pieces |
Image supplied on a CD by client and cut as a birthday present for the owner of the house. Jigsaw also contained silhouette pieces designed by client. 265 x 240 mm, 170 pieces | |
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Silhouette pieces from within a puzzle commissioned as a gift to a golf-playing bone surgeon. Silhouette pieces, designed by aupuzzle specifically for this jigsaw, show interests of the family. 295 x 180 mm, 170 pieces |
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Arm shaped jigsaw given to a person with a broken arm. Designed and cut by aupuzzle. 200 x 270 mm maximum spread, 34 pieces |
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Jigsaw made from a magazine cover. Silhouette pieces (on right of image) depict scientific materials and notations, chemical structures, and the origins of the authors of the article. 280 x 190 mm, 193 pieces |
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Coaster cut into four pieces. There is trick to dismantling and reassembling this puzzle which does not fall apart like most jigsaws. Commissioned for a birthday. |
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This image with the initials 'CA' was associated with art work for a wedding commissioned from artist Julia McLeish. Contact us if you want to commission an image. |
Holidays, birthdays, marriages, anniversaries, graduations, retirements, promotions and resignations can all be celebrated with a puzzle. You can use jigsaw pieces as labels. Whimsies/silhouette pieces, including initials, dates, logos or short messages of your choice can be incorporated as pieces of the puzzle. Jigsaw puzzles can be unique, personal gifts.
Further information is in choosing a puzzle.
Packaging
Puzzles are packaged in various ways. The most inexpensive method is on card and sealed in plastic. Small puzzles come in plastic boxes or CD cases. Unique jigsaws are supplied dismantled in wooden boxes with wooden lids, or assembled in wooden boxes with clear perspex lids (shown below). Packaging of commissioned puzzles is discussed when you place your order. |
Puzzle box doubles as a display case for this teapot-shaped jigsaw |
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