Click here to see the gallery if you don’t have flash With my daughter starting to work in my shop, I needed a good place to put her tools and unfinished projects. Usually I’ve been throwing them into a box and stashing it under my bench, but I figured it was …
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Jan 03 2012
Homemade End Vise
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Dec 20 2011
Making a Wooden Ball Joint
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Nov 16 2011
Completed Flat Cars
Once I was satisfied with the prototype flat car, I wanted to make a whole mess of them at once — nine in fact. I decided to create a few jigs to make production go more smoothly. I built the first jig for cutting out the wheels. It solved …
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Nov 10 2011
Flat Car Prototype
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Oct 17 2011
Crossover Track (Straight)
Click picture to see slideshow After my son got his wooden train set for Christmas his birthday, I started building track for him, but my interested waned during the spring and summer. This fall I’ve started building some more wooden train accessories. As I’ve been documenting that process, I realized that …
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Oct 10 2011
Big Curve, Little Curve
Click picture to see slideshow My son’s preschool teaches writing with a system called Handwriting Without Tears. It is a much simpler character set to learn and can be represented by four simple shapes: big curve, little curve, big line, and little line. You can buy sets of …
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Sep 29 2011
Making Wooden T-Knobs
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Sep 15 2011
Storage Cubby
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Aug 26 2011
Wacky Track or Shake Shake Bridge
In Misty Island Rescue, Thomas must cross the Shake Shake Bridge, a bridge that shakes violently when an engine crosses it. I didn’t intend on making a replica of the Shake Shake Bridge, I actually meant to make an imitation of Wacky Track, bendable wooden …
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