Love Fest in Denver ;>)

Re: Love Fest in Denver ;>)

Ernie Miller Topeka

>This town is a blast! met some nice people found all of the right places for rust (I'm selling the list) no not realy it's Olio's on Broadway deacent prices no bottom feeding ones but they beat ebay. don't worry about the router when the time comes I will have one as they go pretty cheap at the auction house. Sure wish Tom could have made it sooner but he has to pay the bills. Loing forward to comming back later in the year.

LOML suggested the following:

Frank Mutchler in Colorado Springs

>Doll Bed

High Chair

Cradle

Stove

Jewelry Box

Table & Chair (doll size)

Bar with pegs to hold necklaces, etc.

Step Stool (helps to reach the cookie jar)

Wooden flowers & vase

Puzzles ( A,B,C & 1,2,3 & Animals (Cat, Dog, etc.)

Doll Stroller

What did she miss??

Re: LOML suggested the following:

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Child sized tools?

Pam

Re: LOML suggested the following:

Alice Frampton, UK

>Took the words right off my keyboard, Pam :~)

Cheers, Alf

Re: type 3

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>If that's really a type three jointer plane it is worth about quadruple what the regular #7 is. The type three has a very different frog from the regular stanley frog and was only made for a short period of time. Sounds like you had a blast, but I'm sure there are a lot mroe tools out this way than there are out there, maybe next year you need to consider that when you set your vacation plans.

Toys for girls

Adam Cherubini, NJ

>You may need some help, but I've made dolls, and wooden heads for dolls. Roughed them on the lathe, then (poorly) carved them from there. BTW rustic dolls are a decent cottage industry.

My little girl likes her homemade checkers set, made from a pine 1x12, with green milk painted squares. Turned the checkers from a maple tree branch, then cross cut them, though next time, I'd use a parting gouge. One smart thing I did was making about 30 checkers!

I turned apples from a hunk of.......cherry (I hoard apple for tool handles). Since the stock tapered, the apples got smaller and smaller, so I painted the smallest ones green, then made the others progressively more red.

Wooden boxes of a size to hold markers and crayons would be helpful for any child. They don't need to be dovetailed. A little hide glue, a few well placed nails and you're done! I think they like treen as well, though I've never made any.

I made tiny wooden crosses out of blood wood last year, though that might not be appropriate for toys for tots.

I always recommend a well designed foot stool for any child. A good foot stool is a life long friend. A poor foot stool (whose top overhangs its feet or whose top has been proudly polished and poly'd) is an arch enemy no child should have to suffer with. Nursing Mothers in my family appreciate them. Its been our tradition to make a stool for each baby.

Adam

Re: Toys for girls

Tim Caley - North Little Rock

>Adam - can you post a picture?

Re: type 3

Frank Mutchler in Colorado Springs

>Moses, I just saw it briefly but it looked like a an older brother to my Type 3 #6, except that my #6 is corrugated. You're certainly right about the frog...it's arched in the rear and has no frog adjustment screw.

Re: Toys for girls

Patrick Gibbons

>Though I have two boys, ages 3 and 5, there are a number of toys that are appropriate for both of the genders. Castles, carrying cases for videos, CD's, and games; puzzles, rocking chair, toy box, Thomas the Tank Engine table for laying out track, boxes for holding the trains and tracks. These are things that my boys "girlfriends" have all played with that I've observed.

Re: Another Toy Suggestion *LINK*

William Duffield on the Cohansey

>I recenctly built another toy which girls would appreciate as much as boys. I posted construction and operation instructions and dimensions (which are very flexible) on the Turning Forum. All you need is a lathe and turning tools and a drill. Oh, a drill press would help, but is not critical.

toy top

Obviously, if you need to make a lot of them quick, instead of an heirloom to be handed down through the generations, you can bet a lot simpler with the details and scale them down to use wood in standard dimensions. Note also that something like this would not be appropriate for very young children, because the pull could be a choking hazard.

I didn't post it here originally, because it's not really a hand tool project, but this is where Ernie came looking for help, here it is.

girl toys for tots project

Bill Tindall, E. TN

>Our club cradles . We have made as many as 30 when the club was larger, but 30 is a lot of work. Often we can get some church women to make blankets for them.

We often run the project as a begining woodworking class to teach lumber selection, panel glueing, router, band saw, jointer, etc.

We usually use #2 poplar or oak and make clear cuttings from it and then glue up what is needed in panels and cut shapes from the panels.

Sanding and finishing takes the most time, but sometimes we do a spray finishing class to take care of the finishing.

I could provide the cradle pattern we use. It takes 4-5 bd ft of lumber. But here in the land of hardwoods where #2 common can be had cheaply it is not an expensive project. There are enough sizes of cuttings that we get little waste from #2 common.

I have an idea for a "treasure box" that we may make some year.

Re: LOML suggested the following:

Wendell @ Murphy, TX

>I think building blocks are a great toy for kids no matter what the gender. I especially like the sets where two of the block put together make one of the other block eg. two triangles make a square, two squares make a rectangle. These are great ways for kids to start learning about geometry.

Wendell

Try this book for multiple ideas: *LINK*

Barb Siddiqui - Wenatchee, WA

>Frank- I recently made a simple puzzle box for a one-yr. old with three layers and a hinged lid from this book. Inside were stacked a small triangle, a larger circle and a larger square, which had to be assembled in order to get them all in. The little girl kept coming back to that box until she had it mastered, in spite of a roomful of toys, which surprised me. The book has a Terrific train with geometry cars and pattern-laid flat cars, as well as a stackable set of dominoes (pictured near the title) 5"x8" on pine with veneered, colored shapes to match. 'Swonderful. Reviewed in the book review section:




Making Toys That Teach

Re: type 3

Ernie Miller Topeka

>It was getting dark and we didn't have a plane dating sheet with us after close inspection it is a type 8 the #4 is a type 15 the saws are 1896-1917 can't tell you about the block planes.