Custom Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles

The Toilette of Venus

Cupids play along the puzzle border. This is an example of a dancing edge.

Cat-astrophe
Image © Rosina Wachtmeister

I love to design puzzles with non-square edges, and this print was perfect!

Jack-in-the-Box Puzzles is proud to feature a new concept in wood puzzle boxes - the frame box can be used as both a box to store your puzzel pieces and as a frame or shadow box to display the finished design!

Jack-in-the-Box Puzzles: Handcrafted made-to-order wooden jigsaw puzzles - simultaneously a work of art and a challenging brainteaser. Jack-in-the-Box wood puzzles are great for all occasions or no occasion at all. Whether you're looking for a Mother's Day gift, a photo puzzle, a puzzle for advanced assemblers, a wedding proposal puzzle, or something totally different, a Jack-in-the-Box wooden jigsaw puzzle is waiting to be designed just for you.

Crafted with the finest blades available, using 1/4" thick 5-ply Baltic Birch puzzle wood, a Jack-in-the-Box wooden puzzle makes a sturdy, long-lasting heirloom. My wood puzzles also offer several puzzling bonuses not found in cardboard puzzles: figurals, sunken figurals, irregular edges, color-line cutting, indirectly-interlocking edges, and dropouts just to name a few.

Browse the puzzle gallery. Find out what's possible and get some ideas for your own custom puzzle!

See some of my customer testimonials.

Wooden puzzles can be made from prints, photos, calendars, posters, magazine pages, digital images... practically anything at all! You can send me your own print or photo or image or purchase one from a supplier and have it shipped to me. If you do not have a particular choice in mind, please contact me at scott@jitbpuzzles.com with your ideas and I can help you find one. Or, for a real surprise and added challenge, you can just specify a subject and I will find a suitable print and send the completed puzzle broken down into pieces -- you won't know what the image is until you complete the puzzle!

I put a lot of care and thought into every wooden puzzle I make. Most of my business comes from referrals and repeat customers, so it only makes sense for me to make sure you are absolutely as satisfied as possible. Before, during, and after the puzzlemaking process, I am always available to discuss your custom puzzle and any ideas, concerns, or difficulties <wink> that may arise.

The art of jigsaw puzzling begins with wooden puzzles cut by hand, whose maker undertakes to ask all the questions the player will have to solve, and, instead of allowing chance to cover his tracks, aims to replace it with cunning, trickery, and subterfuge.

-- Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual (wikipedia).