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Years ago I made this steam engine from a set of blue prints I bought. Recently my sisters 3 year old grandson took a real liking to it. I decided to make him something. I looked around and settled on a set of plans from Wood Magazine. Of course I made a few minor changes and added in my metal working abilities. This in my version..... I almost want to keep it for myself.
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Young couple next door just had a baby. I like to give a rattle for newborns and noticed I was out. Spent a couple days making these three out of Hard Maple. My niece recently showed me a video of her baby playing with his. She said it is his favorite because it is the loudest. Never thought I would hear that as they don't sound very loud to me.
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I wanted to make an articulating toy for the US Marines annual Toys-for-tots Christmas program this year. The plan was to design a toy and make ten of them. Well, I am not making a design, but I did purchase a plan to make a walking rabbit. I started work on the pull-toy rabbit. Originally, I thought I would use a scroll saw, but quickly aborted that idea and ordered a 1/8” blade for my bandsaw. The bandsaw left a nice surface finish but not nice enough, so I had to order a variable speed sander. I’m making do with my drill press drum sanding system instead of purchasing a spindle sander. Another project will have to justify that tool. Learning to use the scroll saw effectively, would have taken more time than what I wanted to expend. I sent an email to a Smallpatch asking for tips on the use of a scroll saw. He replied with a lot of good information; more effort than with I wanted to take on. Thank you Jesse, I did appreciate it. Perhaps when Covid is over I will visit, and you can give me lessons. The prototype rabbit can be seen here. Pulling the toy moves four wheels which moves the leg bones which make the ears flop. I decided to make eleven Rabbits and give the extra one to my granddaughter. For eleven rabbits I had to make 396 pieces. Someone in my area was giving away some walnut, oak, and cherry cut-offs. He had numerous small pieces 10" to 16" long. Win, Win, Win. He got his basement cleaned-up, I got free lumber, and some kids will get hand crafted pull toys. The plans used metric dimensioning so I had to do some figuring. I used seven different drill sizes. to keep each hole as small as possible, but I may have to open a few when it comes assembly time to allow everything to articulate correctly. I hope to have this project completed soon. I need to get it done before the new interior doors arrive. Thanks for looking. Danl
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Allow me to introduce to you Gretchen, the elephant. My granddaughter will have her 2nd birthday in February 2021 and I thought it would be fitting to make her an elephant money bank. Her bedroom has elephant and her favorite color is pink. The design and fabrication was a simple effort, but the painting was difficult. The hot pick top-coat did not want to adhere to the light pink. Thanks for looking. Danl
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The kitchen side chairs had to take a back burner. My granddaughter has her 1st birthday this month. My present to her is Rita – the rocking Dinosaur. The inspiration for this rocking animal was from a book authored by Jeff Miller, entitle “Children’s Furniture Projects”. I did take much latitude to designing and construction. I scanned Jeff’s drawing into a JPG formatted file and then imported into Sketchup. Using Sketchup, I drew over the imported image, created a 3D model, and resized the model to suit my needs. Flat patterns were then printed in 1:1 scale. The paper patterns were glued to clear shelving paper using 3M spray adhesive onto ¼” MDF to develop 10 individual templates. Using the templates the dinosaur body was cut-out from ½”, 3/8”, and ¼” Baltic birch plywood. The main body has 5 pieces. Total part count is 52 pieces. The rocking runners were made from eleven, per side, 0.120’”hard maple pieces. The maple was bent formed using a MDF form and UNIBOND 1 adhesive. I like to trim the runners using a tall fence on the table saw. A safe way to doom the end of the ¾” dowel used for the handle, is to use a router table set-up. Some assembly required. The different subassemblies were glued and screwed together. Shown here are the 3 different inner main body pieces. Notice that the middle pieces are hollow. Similar for the flank subassembly. Because the main construction material was plywood, I glued in hardwood dowels in each attachment point and trimmed to fit. I introduce to you, RITA! Happy, birthday girl
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This is a scanned document of the now defunct Workbench Magazine of this era. Permission was granted by the new Workbench Publication for The Patriot Woodworker community to copy and use the old Workbench Magazine at our pleasure, and for free distribution and re-use. -
View File Workbench Magazine May-June 1967 Spin Dip This is a scanned document of the now defunct Workbench Magazine of this era. Permission was granted by the new Workbench Publication for The Patriot Woodworker community to copy and use the old Workbench Magazine at our pleasure, and for free distribution and re-use. Submitter John Morris Submitted 10/10/2019 Category Yard and Outdoors
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(Wooden Toys)-Workbench Magazine Jan-Feb 1967 Playhouse Kitchen
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View File Workbench Magazine Jan-Feb 1967 Playhouse Kitchen This is a scanned document of the now defunct Workbench Magazine of this era. Permission was granted by the new Workbench Publication for The Patriot Woodworker community to copy and use the old Workbench Magazine at our pleasure, and for free distribution and re-use. Submitter John Morris Submitted 04/28/2019 Category Wooden Toys -
These are the tops I am working on . Use clear acrylic an it darkened too much. The jewel is a Swarovski crystal.
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From the album: Construction Truck
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I had some Oak scrap and decided to make one of these walking toys. It wasn't easy, my first attempt would only walk a couple of flips, because I missed on the dimensions a bit. This effort worked ok. I used quarter 20 set screws for the weights. I also drilled the holes for it on the lathe, instead of the way the video showed. I've had trouble in the past displaying videos.........here goes stick.MOV
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Saw this in the AAW Forum and going to try it today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_oxNaSLyk
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From the album: Throw Tops
Maple top that I made today. It's made with 3 1x pieces of maple that are glued together and then turned. -
From the album: Throw Tops
Another in my ongoing series of throw tops. This one I believe is Walnut but I could be wrong. It measures about 3.5" tall x 2.5" wide -
From the album: Throw Tops
Maple top that I made recently. It's made with 4 1x pieces of maple that are glued together on a square piece of beech for the center.- 2 comments
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From the album: Pine Is Fine Custom Cabinets and Furniture
This toy box is constructed from maple veneer, with the base and molding made from red oak. Made this box a little bit larger than my others at the request of the client.
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