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Section 2 – Disassembly and Reassembly

Section 2 – Disassembly and Reassembly

Just a couple of new photos of the process of flipping Section 2 over on the puzzle board.  At least this time it should go faster because I’ve done this process once and figured out the best way to flip each section over and get it back together.  I anticipate I should be ready for contact papering by end of the day today.  Here’s a couple of pictures… Preparing the mini section for removal from rest of puzzle. The extracted…

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Yet Another Change In Strategy

Yet Another Change In Strategy

I swear, by the time I get this monstrosity of a puzzle completed and mounted, I’m going to be a jigsaw puzzle mounting master!  I have changed and revised my strategy several times, and just when I think I’ve finally found the best solution, another obstacle presents itself. As I last posted, I was getting ready to put the contact paper down on the back of Section 1 so that I could easily move it off the main puzzling board…

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Section 1 – Disassembled and Reassembled

Section 1 – Disassembled and Reassembled

As I stated yesterday, here are the pictures and a description of my process in flipping Section 1 over on my main puzzling board so that contact paper can be attached to the back. STEP 1:  Take a picture of the completed puzzle section – just in case you never see it this way again!  LOL  (Just kidding!!!) STEP 2:  Carefully decide where you are going to make your cut.  I wanted to use the repeat pattern borders as my…

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Divide and Conquer

Divide and Conquer

I know I haven’t updated this in a little while, but it is because I have been playing around with some different ideas on how best to approach doing Section 2 with Section 1 still on my main puzzling board.  I didn’t want to get too deep into Section 2 until I got this figured out.  I have changed my strategy a couple of times, but I think I have finally found what is going to work the best…thanks to…

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