Thread: Making a start...

My daughter was searching for intarsia and saw this seller's ebay.com store artandcrafthouse (nice intarsia too)

Buried amongst a lot of doll's dresses were these vehicles:

Regards,

Chipman

A site I found
Looking for suppliers of wood car parts .Came across this one in USA.
Seems to have nearly everything small in wood for all types of toys and crafts.
The wheels look OK and very cheap.Looks like they only charge post at cost.
Has anyone used them? And how did you go?
Aussie
http://www.caseyswood.com/shoppingca...ndex&cPath=220

Timbercon in Perth also sell the same wheels but at a bout 4 times the price!
www.timbercon.com.au

also this Canadian site http://store.workshopsupply.com/cata...?cPath=341_372


Chipman

Originally Posted by keju

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I would like to find plans for simple old toys like the ladder one where a figure goes topsy turvy down , tumbling acrobats, pecking chickens. I found some free ones on line, but they weren't very good.
Does anyone know where to get something like that?

Thanks
Juvy

Keju,

I've got some of my G/dad's old toy books with plans just like that , I'll post back tomorrow with the name etc. of the book when I next go down to the shed.

Originally Posted by Yonnee

Do any of you guys make these toy vehicles from plans, or are they done from scratch out of your head?

It's something I'd like to get into, and I would think that once you had made a few, you could develope your own techniques as you found better ways of doing things.

But where to start???

And I'm not talking about the simple bits of 2x4, cut to a shape with some wheels. I'm for something a little more elaborate to start with, and develope my skill from there.


Yonnee.

Hi Yonnee,
have a look at www.aschisworkshop.com

Regards, Peter