Nostalgia - Puzzled!

I was making puzzles yesterday and waxing nostalgic. I have been making them for almost 50 years. I learned to make them from Robert S Brunk. I helped Bob and his wife Jan build an A-frame home on the top of a mountain in Barnardsville, NC. I later came to live next door (so to speak) in a geodesic dome. Bob made furniture and had been making puzzles and cutting boards to take to craft fairs. Puzzles and cutting boards became part of my job during my “apprenticeship” I worked with Bob for 6 months in his shop and for many years after that in my own shop. That started in the early seventies.

These puzzles are called quilters puzzles by some people because the patterns you can make with them look like quilting squares. I make two sizes: small with 16 pieces and large with 32 pieces. Each puzzle can be assembled in many symmetric and asymmetric patterns. Adults have to put all of the pieces in the box but kids arrange the pieces on the floor to make an infinite number of shapes and patterns. I’m not sure who has more fun.

https://sanderswoodworking.squarespace.com/shop/large-puzzle

https://sanderswoodworking.squarespace.com/shop/small-puzzle

Below are a few different patterns.