While my parents were in town we took them to Bryce’s office to show them the Glowforge. We wanted to make a few things that they could bring home as gifts. We settled on a puzzle for my Mom as it fits with her interests well. After experimenting with “the puzzle from hell”, we decided we should probably give her an engraved puzzle, but what should we engrave?

I realized that I had just the thing that would mean something to her. My Grandma wore a necklace every day that she got in Hong Kong and when she passed, it was passed down to me. The character on the necklace means “long life” or longevity. So we ended up engraving the character on the puzzle. We used Glowforge Proofgrade cherry plywood and it turned out great.