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Jim Smith, of Sunbury, cuts out the pieces of a handmade wooden puzzle. Photo by Matthew Harris

by Amanda O’Rourke

SUNBURY — As a boy growing up in Northumberland, John Smith remembers standing by his grandfather’s side for hours watching him cut puzzles.

“My grandfather started making hand-cut puzzles in 1929 to help him make it through the Depression,” Smith said. “He was so good he could hand make little people, animals all kinds of really intricate designs and I think that’s what really fascinated me the most — no two pieces are alike.”

After retiring from working 30 years in a machine shop, Smith himself took up the craft, first as a hobby, and now as a small business.....

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