Earlier today I posted on Twitter (over several tweets) a question about how to demonstrate a couple of things: what kind of wood and finishes we have along with what kind of puzzles we make.

Actually, to start with, I was just thinking about how to show the wood and the finishes. Then Adam (@AdamKingStudio, worth a follow) suggested that I combine them. That sounds good to me, but I do have a concern.

I wonder how confusing it might be to potential customers? Right now I have 6 different puzzles with 3 more being prototyped. So far we’ve used about 8 different woods with 3 different finishes.

So, you can have puzzle C with wood F and finish A.

I don’t know. I’ve still not made up my mind on how to do it. Especially since most all of the puzzles can also be made with 2 or 3 different kinds of wood. I think it would be beneficial for a customer to get a hands on and be able to see the woods next to each other.

I’ll definitely need so have samples of all the puzzles, that’s a given. I’m just tempted to have the samples all be in one wood and then have the wood samples in 3/4″ square sticks a few inches long.

Please share your thoughts and suggestions – I certainly appreciate all your help.

since I’ve posted anything. Part of that is not having much to say. Life has been “interesting” to say the least. The weather was not good for a while, family issues used a lot of time, work was insane – it just all conspired to make it easier to not work on the puzzles than to work on them.

Just a motivation issue on my part.

Then I made an offhand comment on Twitter about posting and found that at least one person reads what I write. That gave me at least a little motivation to come back here and write something. Not that there’s a lot of content here, but I’ll try to get better at keeping you all updated.