 the heck do these go together? Hey guys so in today's video you are going to witness me putting together my very first wooden puzzle. Now I'm gonna be honest here I have some conflicting thoughts about these because when I first saw them I was like oh my god these are absolutely amazing the pieces are like so intricate so beautiful and then it's like well how do these go together? What do I do? How do I even start something like this? Now hit that like button if you're a fan of wooden puzzles and let me know down below what is your favorite wooden puzzle brand? So considering that not only am I again excited about trying it out but I'm also quite terrified I figured the best puzzle set to start with this you know first time wooden puzzle journey would be this particular one that was sent to me by Kathy S and this one I believe she said she got from Timu and it's a pretty small puzzle count here I don't know exactly how many pieces are in here but we got a really cute image of a turtle and I absolutely love turtles turtles were like one of my favorite pets aside from frogs I love frogs too but anyways let's get back on the topic here now with it being a very small puzzle in general I mean I kind of feel like this is the best way to introduce myself to this kind of madness and I have to say I mean one of the things that I absolutely love about wooden puzzles so far from from what I have here is like the piece shapes some of these are absolutely adorable and again quite terrifying because it's like how the heck do these go together now obviously I haven't the slightest clue how long this is gonna take me to kind of even figure out how to go about starting it now who knows I might end up putting this together fairly quickly because you know it's a small puzzle count or you know I just might end up pulling my hair out and just never wanting to work on wooden puzzles again I don't know but I'm sure either way it's gonna make for a very interesting experience now if I end up being quite successful with this particular set and it takes me less time than I think it will then I'm kind of considering also starting on the owl set that was also sent to me by Kathy S and again I'm not sure what the puzzle count is for this but this one is obviously a lot more pieces than the turtle honestly I don't know if you're actually meant or if you are even able to sort these kind of things I haven't the slightest clue okay I need to stop getting ahead of myself here I think I'm I'm going a little overboard here let me focus on one thing at a time let's start with the turtle first let's see how long this is gonna take me and if I feel pretty brave enough at the end of this one we're gonna go after that owl and then we'll really see what I think to wooden puzzles you know guys let me put on my big girl pants and let's get started all right so let's open this first one up here because you know we've got to start small first before we start jumping into the bigger set so here's the reference image that the little set comes with so that is really good and obviously it's the the puzzle itself is not this big so let's put these pieces out and let's see how these are now I know I'm flipping these the other way but I mean I just kind of want you to get an idea here you can kind of see it better against the table color but look at these piece shapes this is amazing now like you do have your like animal shaped pieces here which is this is wild to me honestly and I'm already dropping them and you do have kind of like the non-animal shapes here as well now they look like they do have a little bit of a glossy finish to them but it doesn't look too intense honestly the colors on these pieces are amazing the colors are not bleeding into each other at least from what I'm seeing on these pieces so far it looks absolutely fantastic and they're so cute now I know I've said this a million times already but we have a small puzzle count here but I still feel like this is going to be a beast of a set to put together now again I am both nervous and excited because this is a whole new world to me oh boy I don't even know how to go about starting this but you know what I'm never gonna get this one finished if I don't finally get started so let me stop procrastinating and let's get busy here here's what I did so far in terms of trying to start this I did my best to kind of group certain pieces together according to like their color patterns and as you can see here I like have all these kind of similar pieces these over here these light green ones we have the reddish orangey ones purpley and so on so this is kind of like how I'm figuring is gonna be I guess you can say the best way for me to start so I don't know hopefully this works hopefully this gives me kind of like a a good head start so let's continue and see if I can figure this out oh I think I figured out the first piece oh look at that I'm so proud of myself oh you know what wait a minute oh I put those three together fairly quickly this seems promising this is the turtle's head there you go look at that we got the head done oh this is exciting all right let's continue and quite honestly I'm glad that I kind of separated or sorted I should say the pieces the way I did I feel like it definitely gave me a great head start and made me feel very optimistic for the rest of the completion process so if you ever feel like you're stuck trying to figure out how to go about starting something like this I highly recommend sorting it this way try to group the pieces according to the colors or the patterns because it could really give you that jump start you need to get going but one thing I am noticing is that these kind of fall apart pretty darn easily so you have to be super gentle on this but so far I'm gonna be honest I am quite enjoying this so let's continue yeah overall the hold wasn't that great it's very loose sometimes if you nudged it in the slightest or touched one of the nearby pieces the wrong way while placing another one in it would just come apart but it's not surprising really when you're dealing with shapes like these and some of them are actually really small most of the tiny ones were the pieces that filled in the gaps between a lot of the animal shapes they would fit into each other in the most interesting ways you have to be delicate with this and I'm sure it's also because it was a smaller count set so there wasn't that much there to keep hold together anyways and I was quite amazed at the cut really and how precise it is on all those tiny thin edges and grooves I became more and more fascinated with this the more I piece these amazing shapes together this puzzle took me about 38 minutes to complete and I was shocked I did it so quickly I'm really glad I did this set first now I'm not very well versed in the world of wooden puzzles but I thought the quality of the piece was nice and solid and the color print was great yeah the holds sucked but I think this may be a common thing with these kinds of puzzles it was easy and most importantly fun and it was a great way to introduce myself to this kind of challenge so if you're looking to start your first wooden puzzle adventure look for a small set like this one I'm super proud of myself I did it now I feel brave enough to do the next one let's try out the owl all right so once again I kind of did my best to try to group together anything with like similar colors and patterns so as you can see we kind of have like this pattern going on here we have kind of like these colors going on in the same area um this area here is kind of a bit of a mess but you know I can kind of pinpoint ones that are like a darker red tone we have the orange tones and anything that has any other colors similar to each other along with the red or kind of like uh scattered about we have some of these here that are very similar and obviously we have the purpley blue tones the blue tones and then this particular pattern here so is this the absolute greatest way to sort wooden jigsaw puzzles absolutely not I have no idea this is this is what I noticed worked for me with the turtle so I'm trying it again and see if I can you know be as quick with this one as I was with the turtle which is most likely not the case because obviously this is a lot more pieces but anyways you never know right so I'm actually really excited to put this one together because I was like super happy putting that one all together so let's see how this one turns out and how much more difficult is this one gonna be we shall see all right let me shut up let's continue and what do you know it gave me a great head start again I think I'll continue starting out my wooden puzzles this way and yeah I know sorting is not for everyone but you know what it works for me so I'll stick with it now both sets did have a very slight glossy finish to them and I had to change my lighting or sitting angle at times to get a clear look at whatever I was working on but I didn't feel like it was enough to take away from the whole experience surprisingly the owl pieces held on way better together compared to the turtle and I don't know why maybe that was because there were more pieces involved or what I don't know again I'm not sure but I'll tell you what if I just so happened to put two of the wrong pieces together it was a bit difficult to take them back apart you'd risk messing it all up but what I really loved about this particular owl set were the colors they had this deep darker tone to them and the more this all came together the more I loved it the colors just seemed so rich and I felt like it really looked nice against the color of my puzzle table it was beautiful I was blown away by the finished image this puzzle took me about two hours to complete and I wasn't surprised that there were a lot more pieces to play around with and I was still getting acquainted with this type of challenge this was fun and it's a shame I can't really save them but that's okay that means I could work on them again and I'm surprised to say that because I was really timid in the beginning but now I can say that I am very much looking forward to working on more wooden jigsaw puzzles so like I said before if you are new to the world of wooden puzzles start with something small and try out my sort of sorting method if you have a hard time figuring out how to get started it helped me now I also have two more sets one of them actually being a Wentworth that I plan to work on soon but let me know if you know of any similar brands out there thank you again Kathy for sending me these two awesome sets and for finally getting me started on my wooden puzzle adventures and if you're new here be sure to subscribe so that you can see me start up on other new puzzle adventures and hear what random stuff I have to say about them well guys as always thanks for watching take care and I'll see you in the next one