What to Do With Family Reunion Photos?

When you have a great family reunion photo, you will want to capture the occasion for posterity with a photo or two. How about going a step further and have your photo specially created into a family reunion jigsaw puzzle?
What is a jigsaw puzzle?

Jigsaw puzzles were originally created by painting a picture on a flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw, which accounts for the name, jigsaw puzzle. In 1760, John Spilsbury, a London cartographer and engraver, made the first jigsaw puzzle by attaching a map of the world to a piece of wood and then cutting out the shape of each country.

Most jigsaw puzzles today are made out of cardboard with an enlarged photograph or printed reproduction of a painting glued onto the cardboard before cutting. The pieces are punch-cut with complex metal dies. This produces oddly shaped, interlocking cardboard pieces with part of a picture on one side of each piece to help with the assembly of the puzzle. When finished, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture.
Jigsaw puzzles come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Jigsaw puzzles typically come in 500 pieces, 750 pieces, and 1,000 pieces. Children's jigsaw puzzles come in a great variety of sizes, rated by the number of pieces but are typically below 100 pieces. The puzzles are generally rectangular in shape but can be circular or heart shaped.
Some other interesting facts about jigsaw puzzles

The normal interlocking piece is called a C cut because it is cut in the shape of a C. Some people call these "outies" and the hole they fit into is the "innie". Two C cuts reversed next to each other to form locks on pieces both sides of the cut are called an S cut. Where there is a direct cut between two C cuts, this is called a straight cut. A squiggledy piece? You guessed it - a piece with a hard-to-describe shape.

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