Your welcome Miley

Hey Luke - yep plenty of ways to achieve the same result.

Thanks for the feedback- glad you found it helpful

Hi Henry - glad you found it helpful - I’ll hopefully get around to showing the next step in the coming weeks

​@mrcraftsmith that would be nice.

@@mrcraftsmithDid you ever post this video ?

Thanks Martijn, unfortunately this project is no longer on my KZfaq to do list, sorry

Thanks for the feedback George - I’ll take it onboard - Midjourney is such a powerful tool if you can come to terms with engineering good prompts

Unfortunately I've had some down time from the channel of late due to my day to day business being flat out - so still on the list of videos to do -- Thanks for watching JC

Thanks for watching :)

You're welcome Todd

Thanks Gilbert - surely a little bit of waffle is OK 😀

Hi Joe, no that is not possible - each cut by a laser is going to "vaporise" a certain amount of wood hence creating the cut, there is no way to offset that in a single pass for multi-piece puzzles to get a tighter fit

@@mrcraftsmith I understand that the pieces need to be cut individually, but I am cutting a picture glued to board. I wish there was a way to get the picture onto the individual pictures. any thoughts?

Which video do I mention, sorry?

No need to apologise Dave 😀

Hi Tom - with my limited understanding, if you are looking at a puzzle that big with that many cuts with each piece being roughly 1.5" square - along either axis (X or Y) the amount of material vaporised due to cutting (kerf) would lead to significant compounded sloppiness of the pieces, particularly if cutting on a CO2 laser with a wider beam, which you would want to be doing as a diode would take forever - test it with a single row puzzle of say 10 pieces long, based off of that test you can then estimate the additional kerf loss with roughly 30 odd pieces along each axis. Probably not much help, I have watched a few videos on die cut jigsaws and I suspect that they do them that way for a reason :)

@@mrcraftsmith yes I have seen the die cut jigsaws and the cost to make such a die is very prohibitive for a single person with a low volume maker . I have access to 4 laser engraver/cutters at my maker space I belong to in my town so I am going to give it a go to see how I can make jigsaws likely with study cardboard and a photo glued on. My daughter in law is a photographer and takes these really beautiful landscape shots as she travels across Canada each year so we are thinking of making jigsaws of them. I'd like a minimum of 1000 pieces but that may not be possible. I'm not sure how fast a diode laser of 10 Watts would work but time isn't at this moment an issue.

For sure Tom - I understand the cost prohibitiveness of a die cut setup and was never intended to suggest that route, I can't remember if I mention it in the video but if you were to create a border for the jigsaw to sit within and make it a mm or two undersize from the main jigsaw that would account for a little bit of the kerf differential. Best bet is to play around and do some testing...let me know how you go :)