A Repeat Puzzle

 

This is my next puzzle - The James Younger Gang offered by SunsOut Puzzles.  This is the only puzzle I kept from my previous puzzle life decades ago. It has survived many multiple downsize purgings of my belongings.   I love the picture.  I tried to find this puzzle on Amazon and it doesn’t appear to be for sale anymore. 

The first step facing me is the pieces sorting.  I typically sort by color and edge pieces first.

I first noticed these pieces are non-traditional in shape.

And the sizes of the pieces vary greatly.

And I have a box full of those oddly shaped and oddly sized pieces.  

Not sure if this will be easy or hard.  

But the sorting step is completed now - and I am committed.  

After all, how hard can it be since I have assembled this puzzle before?  (famous last words)  

There are an awful lot of solid color pieces to this puzzle - so my normal brain process of checking the pieces against the picture for general location on the board won’t work for large sections of this puzzle.  

In fact, I have specifically avoided puzzles that are a single color because I prefer using the picture side for reference as opposed to looking for specific shapes. 

This puzzle will be completed, however, no matter how hard it is because I have plans for it.

Now that I have a dedicated puzzle space, I will glue this puzzle together, frame it and and hang it above my puzzle board.  

This puzzle also will probably be the only puzzle I ever repeat. A kind of a “first” and “last” rolled into one. 

This should be interesting!