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General Category => Toy Makers => Topic started by: Al W on August 08, 2013, 10:58:47 am
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Looking forward to some of the ideas here for toys and I made a few starters. The smaller cars (in front) are cut from cherry, whilst the "larger" pickup in the back is from a piece of 2X4 (pine).
I have considered coloring them, but I hate to lose the appearance of the cherry wood. Oh well, I am guessing the grandkids won't complain.
Thanks for taking a look and have a decent day.
Al
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Nice work, thanks for sharing them.
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Looks great Al...I too love the color of the cherry wood. I cut these too, but I used Aspen that don't have much nice grain so I was able to paint mine without much worry of losing the beauty of the wood.
Tommy T
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They are awesome! Do you use one piece of dowel for the axels?
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Al, very nice.
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Looking good Al. I would not paint the cherry - but I would paint the 2x4 pickup. I like the simplicity compared to the designs with fenders etc.
I did some of these with doubled-up oak (1.5" x 2" blank). The weight is nice in them and the wood finishes nicely.
Here's a couple of similar cars (Roadster and Sedan) in red oak using Hobby Lobby wheels:
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7Xua8ixXWuY/Ugajn0SaIqI/AAAAAAAAA1o/Pnfeu8z2-3E/w1044-h345-no/Roadster+and+Sedan.jpg)
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Very nice Al, I hate painting any type of wood so leave up to the customer.
Thanks for those plans Ray.
***Merlin***
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They are awesome! Do you use one piece of dowel for the axels?
Yes, the axles are one piece length of 3/16 dowel rod. I used some wheels and dowel from Hobby Lobby (had to go back for more :)) and found that the dowel rod was slightly larger than the hole in the wheel, I would put the cut piece of dowel into my drill and hit it with some sandpaper to take it down to a really snug fit, then glue it up with super glue (wait for the second wheel until you have the axle installed in the car <snicker>.
I now have 12 cars sitting on the router table ready to be delivered to some youngsters.
Thanks to Toy Makers for the free pattern. I used that one and a couple of others and theirs is a nice size for youngun's hands.
Ray - thanks for the additional patterns - now I am "required" to go back to the shop and try them ;) .
Al
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They look great Al, nice work. :)
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They turned out very nice. I too hate to cover up pretty grain. The only time I'll paint them is when I use 2x4's. Even then some of the 2x4's have some nice grain.