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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- PROJECTS BY JEFF BURKE:
- Go-Kart-Go!(riding machine)
- Littel Red Racer(shiny red racing car)
- Trail Blazer(fire engine)
- Going to the Zoo(2 giraffes in a solid wood truck)
- Baby Bulldozer(bright yellow bulldozer)
- PROJECTS BY FIONA NEVILE:
- Bunny-Go-Round(mobile)
- Horse and Cart(can be ridden or pulled along)
- Horse Play(pretty hobby horse)
- Down on the Farm(tractor, trailer and driver)
- Hickory, dickory dock(colorful clock)
- PROJECTS BY RON FULLER:
- In a Spin(spinning top game)
- Dream Cottage(dollhouse)
- Rock-a-bye Baby(old-fashioned doll crib)
- One, Two, Three...(abacus)
- Weights and Measures(cleverly designed scales)
- PROJECTS BY DIK GARROOD:
- Up in the Clouds(brightly painted sea plane)
- Puffing Billy(steam train)
- Clowning Around(performing clowns)
- Rub-a-dub-dub(moving picture!)
- Vintage Van(big red van, strong enough to be ridden)
- Using a Grid
- INDEX
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Title: Weekend Wood Projects for Toymakers
Author: Jeff Burke, Fiona Nevile, Ron Fuller, Dik Garrood
Publication Date: HC:1987
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., NY
Page Count: 140
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 10" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0806966025
SUMMARY- Mr. Burke included a clever way for a parent to control the speed by which the go-cart goes without killing your back. It made me smile. When I was a kid, we climbed Dead Man's Hill in order to go sledding. It was called Dead Man's Hill because if you missed the turn, you were a dead man. Making the turn meant you could go down the gentle slope where the snow piled up and you weren't going to hit any of the underlying rocks. Missing the curve meant you went down the steep slope(and if you had already built up some speed, catch a little air time), which was also rocky, and usually had less snow to keep you sliding over them and not into them - but the really terrible thing about missing that curve was at the bottom of the steep slope there was a rather impressive field of cacti patches with 1" spines bristling from them. The snow never seemed to cover that area well enough to protect you from the spines. If the rocks didn't get you, those spines would(and did). You only wished you were dead when your mom worked the spines out of you, blubbering and swearing you'd never do that again. But of course, we did, because if you did make that curve, it was a long ride at great speeds into what could be charitably called a pasture and if you were going fast enough, you'd make it at least halfway across that field before the sled finally lost the last of its momentum and came to a gentle stop. It was too rocky for go carts. They eventually put up a fence, thus spoiling a very fine tradition that had been passed down by the kids in the area for generations.
Most of these projects are fairly complex and need great precision in cutting the parts, but they are creative, colorful and worth the effort.
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