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Kids are naturally curious. They love to build stuff and projects that involve cars will entertain children for hours. In this guide written by a Teacher-of-the-Year winner, your kids will learn how to construct race cars from ordinary, affordable household materials, while learning the science behind how they work, in language easy enough for a 7th grader to understand. With color photos, diagrams, fun illustrations, and four complete projects, your family will be racing vehicles that go the distance and go for the gold! A bonus project is included for students looking for super science fair project.
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Norm Marshall was a well-known toy maker, whose classic toys were loved by children and woodworkers alike. They provided hours and hours of entertainment for countless generations, and best of all - they were easy to build. Now you can build a Norm Marshall wooden toy! With Great All-American Wooden Toys, you'll discover 37 three-dimensional projects, each complete with an exploded illustration, a materials list and detailed step-by-step instructions for a fool-proof building experience. More than 125 photographs show woodworkers how every piece goes together. A special chapter is also devoted to finishing or painting your toys for a professional look. Toys include: -Classic Model T car -Steamroller -Bulldozer -Biplane -Trains and much more. There's also 16 projects perfect for beginners - like a pull-along train and circus animals.
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Manual Training Toys for the Boys Workshop was originally published in 1912. After a short introductory section on basic woodworking and shop tools, the book offers 42 shop projects. Each project comes with a cutting list and dimensioned drawing, and all date from the early part of the 20th century (many, no doubt, are from the 19th century). Many of these projects are toys that require some skill in woodwork but they are not too difficult for boys and their dads to do together. When the book was first published it was dedicated to the boy who likes to tinker round, so it was really written with the thought that the boys could make these projects without adult supervision. Many of the projects would now be considered nostalgic reminders of a time when things were much simpler and boys were trained to use tools and make things that would be at times useful, and always entertaining. This was a time long before text messaging and video games. Projects include a Fourth of July or New Years eve rattle, a cannon that shoots marbles, a kite string reel, a pop-gun and whistle, a bow and arrow, a sword, a magic box, and 35 other fun things for boys to build.
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Twelve puzzles of four different basic types are described in this guide, along with the tools and techniques needed to make them. There is expert advice on the woods, glues and finishes that will give the best results. These puzzles are beautiful and intriguing objects in their own right, and offer woodworkers a delightful means of sharpening their skills and astonishing their friends.
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Troy Thorne - woodworker, artist and derby-winning dad - shares his expert tips, techniques and amazing patterns so parents and scouts of any skill can build a jaw-dropping, prize-winning car that's quick out of the gate. Officially licensed by the Boy Scouts of America, this valuable guide provides 34 amazing patterns and designs along with step-by-step instructions for building a High-Wing Racer, a Stock Car and a Vintage Racecar
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Complete plans are provided for a variety of interesting recreational projects for both boys and girls. The projects all date from the late 1920s when manual arts classes were in their prime and hundreds, if not thousands, of students would enter pushmobile and scooter contests. These nostalgic projects will appeal to baby boomers, grandparents, and hobbyist woodworkers.
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Here is the definitive illustrated reference to soapbox cars, buggies, and go-carts-complete with blueprints for turning these fun rides into reality. Whether building from a kit or starting from scratch, carting enthusiasts will find step-by-step guidance for 10 advanced projects, along with the key elements of design and construction: different brakes and bumpers, forms of propulsion, and steering mechanisms. The fabulous vehicles range from basic carts assembled from ready-made components to involved models that require simple carpentry and metalwork-including sports, vintage, and wind-powered carts, plus a motorized model. Customize your creation using accessories, embellishments, paint, decals or transfers.
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From selecting materials and tools to applying finishes and shellacs, this handy guidebook provides complete instructions for creating 16 unique toy tops. Economical and simple to produce, each project includes step-by-step photographs and many can be made without a lathe. Designs include a top that flips over, the classic dreidel, and the amazing Benhams top that produces colors when spun, despite being painted black and white. Quick and fun, these projects appeal to woodworkers and toymakers alike.
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To the delight of children and grandchildren, this handy guidebook offers an assortment of vintage wooden toy projects that hearken to bygone eras. Drawing primarily from Victorian and Edwardian eras, each wonderful toy project offers step-by-step instructions, cutting lists, wood recommendations, and techniques such as jigmaking and turning spheres and cylinders. In these 15 projects, crafters will find age-appropriate toys for toddlers to teens, including a diabalo for juggling, a yo-yo, toy soldiers and mice, colorful stacking discs, spinning tops, and bowling pins. More skilled toymakers will enjoy the challenge of crafting a kaleidoscope and a walking cow. Variations for each project allow crafters to personalize each toy, and a brief history of how and where the toy was used provides added value and interest.
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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 religionincluding cuddly cats, Jonah and the whale, a wooly mammoth, and the worlds 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.
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A comprehensive pattern and project guidebook for making interlocking puzzles, this exciting collection is based on astrological signs. With two complete projectsCapricorn and Year of the Horsenovice scrollers will benefit from step-by-step guidance and 22 additional zodiac patterns and six bonus patterns based on other celestial bodies, including the Big Dipper and Orion. With projects provided in a detailed cutting pattern and a solid silhouette version, each offering is fully adaptable to a wide variety of media. Fascinating information about each astrological sign, including its character traits, and corresponding calendar dates, and a photograph of the source material used to design the pattern accompany each project.
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Nelson looks at the history of American toys and discusses how they were made. He includes over 30 toy projects with how to information as well as an illustrative narrative on the toy. All of the toys are easy to make with simple hand tools; just as they were originally made. Each project includes step-by-step instructions. REGULAR $24.95 OUR PRICE $18.95. You save 24%.
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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.
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The difference between a good toy and a great one is the ability to entertain and instruct a child at the same time. Neufeld is a woodworker with a graduate degree in Curriculum/Instructional Materials. Here he combines his skills to show which toys are most effective for early childhood education and he supplys the step by step instructions and plans to make them. Nine projects are included.
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Subtitled: "Design and Build the Ultimate Car". This book takes you from the first step in building the car all the way to making derby-winning modifications. Includes information about polishing the axles, aligning the wheels, extending the base, and finally competition techniques that will help you win a trophy. Fully illustrated; easy-to-follow instructions.
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This will appeal to every dad and grandfather that ever wanted to make a toy. These trucks are simply wonderful toys; functional as toys without being crude. They are toys that every woodworker would be proud to make and every child would want to have. There are 12 projects including a dump truck, cement truck, a grader, loader, a forklift and a Monster truck. Each project includes step by step instructions and photos.
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This is the sequel to the author's hugely popular "Puzzles in Wood". In this collection some 46 puzzles are just waiting to be made and solved. They range from the simple to quite challenging pieces for those craftsmen who like to take pride in having their work fit snugly and accurately. The three dimension jigsaw puzzle makes a great variation on the conventional jigsaw. Try squaring triangles or making a triple dovetail puzzle, or an eighteen piece double-cross. Happy puzzling.