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Thread: Keep the toys coming
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18th February 2011, 12:20 AM #1
Keep the toys coming
There are some great models being posted on this forum, you can only give the people who build them a lot of credit for the time and effort that goes into them however
I hate to think that this discourages people from posting the toys that they have made.
A one or two day project to make a hardy toy for your little loved one is also a great achievement so keep the pictures coming.
As I have said before, toys are toys for kids to play with and models live in a glass case, where you kill anyone that comes near them...
To all you toy makers, don't think that you have to make a masterpiece to post it on the forum and be proud of it.
Phil
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18th February 2011, 09:00 AM #2
Just making wooden toys for fun
G'Day Phil,
You've captured my thoughts about us lesser toy makers.
I marvel at the magnificent models that some of the blokes have made & posted.
The craftsmanship, time & patience’s to make them is currently far beyond me.
I like to see the "how it's made" photos as it helps with know-how plus the gumption to have a bit of a go.
I've tried to put that aside and posted the "Pull Along Elephant" which I hope to finish today and post another photo.
THANK YOU for encouraging more lovers of toy making to show everyone what they're making for beautiful little people in there lives.
Cheers, Crowie
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18th February 2011, 09:05 AM #3
Thanks Phil, you have been a great inspiration to many on this forum. Hope to be posting something soon myself.
Reality is no background music.
Cheers John
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18th February 2011, 11:31 AM #4
I'm just a simple type of toy maker who uses woodwork to relax, after an Acquired Brain Injury has left me with "chronic head pain"; I find the woodwork so rewarding.
I enjoy the no pressure of the woodwork making things for my grandchildren, other children, for my wife for kindergym [like the 17 wood block car in the photo attached] or just having a go at a new toy.
I also make things/aids for my wife who's an occupational therapist to give away to people.
All in all it allows me to use the tools I've acquired of the years plus use up some of my timber stash which pleases my darling wife.
I recently purchased thru Amazon UK, "How to make Animated Toys", "Making Heirloom Toys", "Making Wooden Toys", "Guide to Making Wooden Toys that Move", "Marvellous Transforming Toys" plus collect toys plans whenever I see them.
I hope that gives you a bit of a background to this bloke who enjoys making wooden toys and admires the craftsmanship of the model makers.
I also enjoy the forum as company, someone to talk to, hopefully be of some help and offer advice or a view. I appreciate the forum and all the top blokes & ladies who contribute.
Cheers, Crowie
besides the "Pull Along Elephant" I'm trying to do now, plus the "Rocking Horse" I recently finished; here's some of what I've done over the past year.
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18th February 2011, 11:34 AM #5
Heheheh! I have long thought that it would be highly unlikely that any kid would be allowed within ten metres of some of the projects that I see displayed in the Toy section of the forums.
At a practical level though, I suspect that you will see more genuine toys displayed in the run-up to Christmas when some of us have a deadline to meet.
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18th February 2011, 02:17 PM #6
Hi all,
This is always a complicated one, at the one end you have the toys to take outside to the sand pit and wreck now and at the other the exact scale model in a glass case and then in-between you have working toys to play with in the sand pit but look after, the posher toys to play with inside and hopefully become heirlooms, toys that are so cute and well finished (Undie's men's shed car) that they are ornaments, models not to scale and so on.I am glade I do not have to try and set the criteria.
Anyway enjoy your hobby which ever way you attack itHugh
Enough is enough, more than enough is too much.
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19th February 2011, 02:18 PM #7
Good call Pm...there is a definite divide between the "To be played with" toys and the To be looked at" toys... post em all. maybe with the prefix...PW (played with) or LA (looked at)
I reckon good toys only become ornaments after the kids have left home and are done with them. The toys that are left have been bashed, dinged, repeatedly repaired and have aquired a patina of many years of robust play...and the memories that go with them.
what if the hokey pokey is really what it's all about?
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19th February 2011, 03:40 PM #8
? Who stole the rest of this thread?
Hugh
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19th February 2011, 04:01 PM #9I reckon good toys only become ornaments after the kids have left home and are done with them. The toys that are left have been bashed, dinged, repeatedly repaired and have aquired a patina of many years of robust play...and the memories that go with them.
No those are the heirloom ones, because they come back and steel your ornaments to give to their brats. Even if you have made the grand kids better ones, they probably want to have a quick play with their old toys them selves when no one's looking.
RegardsHugh
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19th February 2011, 04:03 PM #10
Why was my post removed also.
I just pointed to what was already available
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19th February 2011, 05:26 PM #12
Why bother
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19th February 2011, 10:50 PM #14Retired
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I don't know what emails or Pms you got or from whom but the facts are (and you know them because you posted to the thread) are that a suggestion was put forward by a moderator, a #### fight started egged on by a few who think they know better than the Admins and moderators what should be done.
The thread had all the superfluous posts removed and bought back to what was its original intent.
Read the rules regarding Moderators deleting posts. https://www.woodworkforums.com/f90/fo...ad-them-33202/
END OF STORY.
No further correspondence will be entered into.
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20th February 2011, 09:16 AM #15
What kids love, doesn't have to be a masterpiece, my little grand daughter wanted me to make her a giraffe, she did the art work on it.
About 650 mm high. regards NF
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