Puzzle, pegboard, national values storage, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Inauguration Day. Who says art can’t be efficient?
The puzzle can be assembled flat for inspirational viewing, or some of its pieces form the bottom and sides of a pegboard box for storage in the garage, if you’re not feeling lofty.
That is really cool! And it would be easy to print out the extra pieces so you can have it not only as the box, but can leave the box intact and still put the puzzle together. Sharp!
I hadn’t thought about it that way. That was just me being lazy and wanting to keep the holder as well as put the puzzle together and take apart and put it away.
I know. And I hadn’t thought about it that way either. But once you made me think about it, I realized (retroactively) that that could be the best interpretation of the piece.
By the way, if you haven’t read the Gettysburg Address since high school, go read it. You’ll be humbled by the eloquence and passion that can be expressed in 10 sentences.
Here’s the promised pattern. I made some changes to improve the presentation and fix some technical issues.
This kerf-adjusted version is divided into 5 sheets. You will need to print out each sheet, mount it on 1/8" plywood, and align it to the cut pattern.
The cut patterns are upside-down because that’s how I cut my puzzles. You can turn them right-side-up if you want.
The outer rectangle of the cut pattern must be aligned with the black border of the print. You may have to adjust both the position and the size of the pattern.
I’ve designed the pattern to give you some room for error. A misalignment of up to 2mm will still give tolerable results. You might even get away with using the camera for alignment, if you’re cutting right-side-up!
The pattern assumes a kerf of 0.12mm. I find that adjusting your power to arrive at 0.12mm kerf generally puts you in the sweet spot between too weak and too strong.
If you prefer to cut the puzzle the “normal” way — or if you just want to print the picture! — here’s the simple picture (300dpi) and pattern (96dpi) without kerf adjustment. (But it’s too large to fit in the print bed. It can’t simply be scaled down without breaking the box design as well as the pegboard spacing.)