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Turning Vintage Toys

Chris Reid
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Description

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Featuring 15 fabulous toys, each with clear step-by-step instructions, detailed photographs, and easy-to-follow diagrams. Beginners can try their hand at colorful yo-yos, spinning tops, quoits, and skittles, while intermediate-level turners can relish the challenge of a kaleidoscope colour top, diavolo, or the endearing walking penguins.

Details

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Pages 176
Publish Date 2009-09-15
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Size 8.5" x 11.0" x 0.0"
Author Chris Reid
Product Form Paperback / softback

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as proved by my nest of mice! My confidence level has grown leaps and bounds and now maybe I'll try making the Skittles Game. My Ratings of The Book Layout and Appearance: Colourful, fun, concise. Thumbs Up! Instructions: Easy to follow, not a lot of reading to do. Thumbs Up! Project Selection: Fun. Fun. Fun. Can't wait to make them all. Thumbs Up! Overall: Thumbs Up! "Turning Vintage Toys" is definitely a book to have in your collection if you have children, grandchildren, make toys for charities, or just are young at heart!
When I first picked up this book I was immediately inspired to make some toys. Each of the 15 projects are now on my "to do" list and I think I can make them all. The step
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Yo and Skittles. Then there are Pecking Chickens, Table Quoits, a Woodpecker and a Music Man, as well as a Ball and Cup, a Diavolo and a Walking Penguin. The graphic treatment of the book is bright and energetic, as if the author wants to impress upon the reader that making toys should be as much fun for the woodturner as the toys will be to the children who play with them. Certainly, the work is not difficult, but it is sure to be interesting and making the full complement of the toys in this book would absorb many pleasant hours in the workshop.
When the only toys were wooden toys, every home with children had wooden tops, a set of wooden skittles and more than one skipping rope with wooden handles. This book allows woodturners to recreate these and many other wooden toys for the children of today. There are step

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About the Author

Chris Reid received his first lathe when he was just fifteen years old and has been woodturning for more than 50 years. Now retired, Chris makes these wonderful wooden toys for childrens' parties and his own grandchildren

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