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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

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  

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.

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

Saw this in the AAW Forum and going to try it today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_oxNaSLyk