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Getting Started in Pinewood Derby
Step-By-Step Workbook to Building Your First Car- Regular price
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Follow Dash Derby on an adventure through the 7 easy steps to building your first Pinewood Derby race car. No woodworking skills are required for this family fun project--just patience and the desire to have a good time!
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| Pages | 96 |
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| Publish Date | 2011-11-01 |
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| Size | 8.0" x 8.0" x 0.25" |
| Author | Troy Thorne |
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DERBY MANUAL FOR BEGINNERS
On your mark, get set, are you ready to create a winning race car from a block of wood and plastic wheels?
Pinewood Derby racing season is approaching, with Cub Scouts starting at the end of December. And a similar event, Awana Grand Prix, held by the religious organization, gets into gear in January.
Rookie racers (and their parents) can find help in Troy Thorne's "Getting Started in Pinewood Derby: A Step
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book style, this handy guide provides 12 patterns and paint designs from which to choose and ideas for personalizing a race car. It?s perfect for the woodworker who wants to share some shop time with a son or daughter.
GETTING STARTED IN PINEWOOD DERBY, by Troy Thorne, is a step
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Step Workbook to Building Your First Car Book Review: Getting Started in Pinewood Derby
I recently received a copy of Getting Started in Pinewood Derby by Troy Thorne. This colorful workbook goes through all of the steps involved in building a car. My favorite thing about the book is that it is directed at Cub Scouts
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and done in a fun way. Thumbs Up!
Projects Selection: A variety of plans provided to inspire creativity. Great.
Inspiration: I want to attend a derby race to see some of these cars in action. Thumbs Up!
Overall: Thumbs Up!
I was really excited when I first saw this book
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step workbook as a guide to building your first race car and the book has been illustrated by Jason Deller. There are a dozen classic design patterns to work with and the book is rife with racing tips to help your car take the checkered flag. Great fun!
In May of 1953 Cub Scout Master Don Murphy came up with the idea of a Pinewood derby and this has become an annual event. Specific rules have been laid out and Pinewood Derby races are held throughout the US.
Troy Thorne wrote this step
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step workbook as a guide to building your first race car and the book has been illustrated by Jason Deller. There are a dozen classic design patterns to work with and the book is rife with racing tips to help your car take the checkered flag. Great fun!
In May of 1953 Cub Scout Master Don Murphy came up with the idea of a Pinewood derby and this has become an annual event. Specific rules have been laid out and Pinewood Derby races are held throughout the US.
Troy Thorne wrote this step
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step awesome in a book that will put a smile on your kids face and be competitive entry into the local race Mr. Thorne's Getting Started in Pinewood Derby is a great start.
Most kids speak with great nostalgia when the subject of Pinewood Derby cars is brought up. Designs from the speedy and elegant to the loud, and in my case at least, ridiculous. However there are a growing group of both parents and kids who know don't know a thing about how to craft a racer or what's possible to do in the first place. Our friend Troy Thorne over at Fox Chapel Publishing recently wrote Getting Started in Pinewood Derby to try and remedy that.
Troy has an excellent way of breaking the process down and giving step by step instuctions that builders of any age can both understand and duplicate complete with sweet pictures and helpful tips that get you over the rough spots.
There are also a dozen plans in the book that can be cut out and used as templates to replicate his designs exactly and give the other competitors a run for their money. Couple this with the painting ideas, axle and wheel prep, weighting and test run instructions and you've got 95 pages of racer building know how to back you and the young'n up.
When we met him at Maker Faire a few years ago our first question to Troy was "Do your designs really work?" He pointed us over to his booth where he had close to 50 lightning fast racers on display with a test track set up behind them and told us to find out for ourselves. We did. They Do.
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with wheels that turned well. His car was not the fastest, but that did not matter. He was proud of his hard work and the fabulous car he had created. I recommend this book for any Cub Scout and father trying to build a car together.
My son is a Cub Scout. Last year, my son and husband built a car that barely made it down the track. Obviously, my son was very disappointed! This year, I received the Getting Started in Pinewood Derby Step
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there are instructions and vendors all over the Internet for putting together your own track, so don't let that stop you.
Decker's not letting up on his request to build a racer, so I've got to get over to the scout supply store sometime this week so we can start on a couple of racers this weekend. I think I'm looking forward to it even more than he is not the final racer, but the time spent together.
This last weekend my neighbor and his son (age 7) invited my son, Decker (almost 5), to come and watch his Cub Scout Pinewood Derby race. If you're not familiar with this event, the Cub Scouts host a race every year where the participants take a standard block of wood and four plastic wheels and turn it into a pure racing machine or something else. It's been over 30 years for me, but I still remember my dad taking me out into the workshop and helping me use his bandsaw and sander to carve up my own car, #87. It wasn't much to look at, but it was mine. It still sits on a bookshelf in my office as a reminder of not only the race but also the time I spent with my dad at a very young age, learning to use some basic woodworking tools.
Decker isn't quite old enough yet for the Cub Scouts, but he absolutely loved looking at the 100+ cars sitting on display for the judges to examine and weigh. All cars must weigh less than 5 ounces, but racers try to hit as close to 5 ounces as possible because the weight of the car affects its speed when it is released on the downward
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Last but not the least, this provides an opportunity to do test runs at home and figure out last minute adjustments before doing test runs on the official race track and before the big race!
In addition, patterns are provided along with spaces to jot in precious memories of race day along with your own photographs.
Rating: A
Reading Level: All cub scouts and parents
This year's Pinewood Derby is still fresh in our memories. Though we did not win, it was, as before, great fun and we are looking forward to next year's Derby already and my son has a pattern picked out along with decoration ideas.
The perfect book for a pinewood derby beginner or even someone who has done it before
