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Zany Wooden Toys That Whiz, Spin, Pop, and Fly: 28 Top-Secret Projects You Can Build from the Toy Inventor's Workshop

By Bob Gilsdorf

Fox Chapel Publishing
Paperback (224 pages)

Zany Wooden Toys That Whiz, Spin, Pop, and Fly: 28 Top-Secret Projects You Can Build from the Toy Inventor s Workshop
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Inventive and unique, this dynamic collection of woodworking projects teaches the basic skills needed to make exciting, action-packed toys. From rapid-fire nickel launchers and ball-and-socket robots to a monkey-toss gumball machine, each project includes a color photograph, a tools and materials list, a full diagram, woodworking plans, and instructions for using the finished product. Covering all the methods necessary for creation—selecting wood, drilling and shaping, making wheels and axles, and decoration—these constructions are simple enough for children and parents to complete together, all in an afternoon’s time.

Making Heirloom Toys

By Jim Makowicki

Taunton Press
Released: 1996-10-01
Paperback (160 pages)

Making Heirloom Toys
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  • ISBN13: 9781561581122
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This guide includes a collection of toys that can be cherished for generations to come. Suitable for anyone interested in making their own toys, the step-by-step projects range from the simple to more complex.

Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles: 18 Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind

By Charlie Self

Creative Publishing international
Paperback (128 pages)

Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles: 18 Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind
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For centuries, logic puzzles have entertained, inspired and educated kids of all ages. Studies show these engaging "brain teasers" provide unsurpassed benefits to the body and mind, increasing manual dexterity, mathematical abilities and overall intellectual agility.

Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles provides plans and instructions for crafting 18 of the most popular manual puzzles. Projects range from traditional "put together/take apart" games like pentominoes and soma cubes to more sophisticated "unlocking" head-scratchers, such as the Burr and Heart Box puzzles. Readers will also learn specialized cutting, drilling, sanding, gluing and finishing techniques that make crafting wooden puzzles possible.

Action Whirligigs: 25 Easy-to-Do Projects (Woodworking Whirligigs)

By Anders S. Lunde

Dover Publications
Paperback (128 pages)

Action Whirligigs: 25 Easy-to-Do Projects (Woodworking Whirligigs)
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Easy-to-follow instructions and measured drawings for creating 25 charming little wind-driven toys--from the simple Baking a Pie whirligig to the Woman at the Computer to a variety of weathervanes. All are excellent woodworking projects because they're easy to do, inexpensive, and--most of all--they're fun! For all levels of ability. 98 black-and-white illustrations.

Making Furniture & Dollhouses for American Girl and Other 18-Inch Dolls

By Dennis Simmons

Fox Chapel Publishing
Paperback (192 pages)

Making Furniture & Dollhouses for American Girl and Other 18-Inch Dolls
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Providing the plans and instructions for an heirloom-quality dollhouse and sturdy doll furniture, this guide is written with the home woodworker in mind. All the projects are made with tools commonly found in home workshops, and every set of instructions follows a detailed step-by-step process. Simpler projects are suitable for beginners, and several challenging projects are intended for advanced woodworkers. Modular plans allow adjustments to the size of the house, and there are several options for adding charming details such as gingerbread trim. Furniture projects include an armoire, a chest of drawers, a canopy bed, a classic trunk, a grandfather clock, a rocking chair, a tea table, and a school desk.

Tremendous Toy Trucks: With Step-by-Step Instructions and Plans for Building 12 Trucks

By Les Neufeld

Taunton Press
Released: 2001-09-01
Paperback (176 pages)

Tremendous Toy Trucks: With Step-by-Step Instructions and Plans for Building 12 Trucks
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Simple, functional…and just plain fun: that describes the 12 projects in this collection of classic wood toys. The projects featured here include dump trucks, a tow truck, a flatbed, a semi, a cement truck, logging trucks…you name it. There's a project for every woodworker -- and hours of imaginative play for the lucky kids who will get the trucks once they're made. These designs are varied and durable enough for kids who play hard. Included are more than 300 photos and illustrations, and the projects have working parts -- from winches to rolling wheels.

Wooden Puzzles: 31 Favorite Projects & Patterns (Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Book)

Fox Chapel Publishing
Paperback (96 pages)

Wooden Puzzles: 31 Favorite Projects & Patterns (Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Book)
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Collecting the most popular designs produced by Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine, this authoritative guide offers 28 creative and colorful patterns for upright and interlocking puzzles. Separated by skill level for easy selection, woodworkers will find pieces ranging in themes from animal to religion—including cuddly cats, Jonah and the whale, a wooly mammoth, and the “world’s most difficult” four-piece puzzle. Each project features a color photograph of the finished piece, a pattern, and detailed, step-by-step instructions for easy completion.

Great Book of Wooden Toys: More Than 50 Easy-to-Build Projects (American Woodworker)

By Norm Marshall

Fox Chapel Publishing
Paperback (224 pages)

Great Book of Wooden Toys: More Than 50 Easy-to-Build Projects (American Woodworker)
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Detailed and copiously illustrated, this in-depth handbook offers instruction for constructing more than 50 wooden toys designed to appeal to a child’s sense of imagination and playfulness. A brief introduction covers the basic techniques—gluing, sanding, and making wheels—and each project presents a meticulous diagram, a handy materials list, step-by-step instructions, and a photograph of the completed toy. Designs include stylized versions of a Model T car, a crane, and the Spirit of St. Louis airplane, as well as projects specifically for beginning woodworkers, such as pull-along trains and circus animals. Instructions for finishing and detailing ensure that the completed crafts will last for years.

Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw: Newly Revised & Expanded, Now 50 Projects in Wood (Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Book)

By Judy Peterson

Fox Chapel Publishing
Paperback (128 pages)

Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw: Newly Revised & Expanded, Now 50 Projects in Wood (Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Book)
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Designed for crafters of all skill levels, this straightforward guide covers all the skills that scrollers need to make upright standing and interlocking puzzles. With step-by-step instructions; information on selecting the proper tools, woods, and blades; and techniques for transferring patterns and applying finishes; this guide includes everything the beginner needs to get started while instructions for creating custom patterns and designing an animal puzzle from a photograph provide additional projects for experienced scrollers. Featuring patterns of numerous animals, including an alligator, caribou, panda bear, a playful scene of four cats, a beagle, and a cocker spaniel, each project includes color photographs of the finished puzzles and a new gallery of completed puzzles submitted by readers.

Making Animated Whirligigs (Woodworking Whirligigs)

By Anders S. Lunde

Dover Publications
Paperback (160 pages)

Making Animated Whirligigs (Woodworking Whirligigs)
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An expert at designing and making the wind-powered toys known as whirligigs shows how to create any of more than two dozen traditional and original models. Patterns include animals with spinning wings, people with waving arms, and more. Easy-to-follow instructions, detailed illustrations.

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