Three Piece Puzzle

Three Piece Puzzle

For the past few weeks in tech, we've been working on creating a three piece 3D puzzle out of timber. We started off by copying a plan twice that our tech teacher printed for us. 

After drawing a plan on paper, we copied this plan onto our three pieces of timber. The lines on our timber had to be as straight as possible so that we could find the centre easily. We used both a ruler and a try square to make sure our lines were straight.

Once we had copied our plan onto all three pieces, we used some type of saw to cut out two of the pieces of timber (the one shaped like a T and the one that is sort of shaped like a cross), and used a drill to cut out the piece in the other one. We then used a chisel to get rid of any bumps in the timber that stopped the three pieces from fitting together.

We then sanded it and coated the puzzle piece in polyurethane. Here is what it looked like in the end, along with photos showing how to put it together.