John's Signature Puzzle Piece Custom Puzzle Craft Maker of Fine Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles

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Regular Signature Piece

Random Signature Piece

Signature Pieces (back sides)
(Showing the date made, company name, puzzle # and my signature)

Each puzzle I make contains a Signature Piece. The Signature Piece is signed, dated, numbered and identified as a Custom Puzzle Craft puzzle piece, on the back. For puzzles with 200 or more pieces, I normally include my Regular Signature Piece. For smaller puzzles I usually pick a nice piece and use that as a Random Signature Piece. When ordering a Custom Puzzle you may choose which kind of Signature Piece you want or have me decide.

The origin of the Regular Signature Piece goes back a long ways. I was deeply into creating geometric patterns using a cyclical propagation method applied to branching lines, something I developed while a teenager. My early geometric patterns were drawn by hand, as this was before Apple, Microsoft and Intel existed.

One "famous" pattern is the "V Pattern", one the very first patterns I developed, and the first to grow on a computer, an IBM 1130 minicomputer in 1972. This pattern is still one of my favorites, The initial sequence or "Genesis" of the V Pattern is the basis for the Signature Piece included within Custom Puzzle Craft puzzles. By including this shape within my puzzles, I tie my love of patterns and puzzles together.