Making Mad Toys & Mechanical Marvels in Wood
by Rodney Frost
from Sterling
New Wood Puzzle Designs: A Guide to the Construction of Both New and Historic Puzzles
by James W. Follette
from Linden Publishing
Wooden puzzles are fun to solve, but with this guide to the almost perfectly square sticks, rings, disks, and other shapes that they require, they are even more fun to make. Twelve puzzles of four different basic types are described in this guide, along with the tools and techniques needed to make them. There is also expert advice on the woods, glues, and finishes that will give the best results. These puzzles are beautiful and intriguing objects in their own right, and they offer woodworkers a delightful means of sharpening their skills and astonishing their friends.
Traditional Wooden Toys: Their History and How to Make Them
by Cyril Hobbins
from Linden Publishing
Great All-American Wooden Toybook (Reader's Digest Woodworking)
by Norm Marshall
from Readers Digest
Build any one of 50 top-quality toys with the help of exploded diagrams, photos, material lists and detailed step-by-step instructions.
Tremendous Toy Trucks: With Step-by-Step Instructions and Plans for Building 12 Trucks
by Les Neufeld
from Taunton
Simple, functional...and just plain fun: that describes the 12 projects in this collection of classic wood toys. The projects featured here include dump trucks, a tow truck, a flatbed, a semi, a cement truck, logging trucks...you name it. There's a project for every woodworker -- and hours of imaginative play for the lucky kids who will get the trucks once they're made.
-- Designs are varied and durable enough for kids who play hard.
-- Includes more than 300 photos and illustrations.
-- Projects have working parts -- from winches to rolling wheels.
Making Heirloom Toys
by Jim Makowicki
from Taunton
Making Doll Furniture in Wood: 24 Projects and Plans Perfectly Sized for American Girl and Other 18" Dolls
by Dennis Simmons
from Fox Chapel Publishing
The patterns included in this woodworking project guide are sized for 18-inch dolls such as the popular American Girl dolls and can be scaled for larger or smaller dolls. Each project includes a list of all materials needed and details the start-to-finish procedure, from preparing wood to staining and painting the piece. Patterns for 30 pieces of doll furniture are included, and five step-by-step projects for a bed, dresser, rocking chair, table, and standing mirror are featured.
Making Animated Whirligigs (Woodworking Whirligigs)
by Anders S. Lunde
from Dover Publications
Making Marble-Action Games, Gadgets, Mazes & Contraptions: Designs for 10 Outlandish, Ingenious and Intricate Woodworking Projects
by Alan Bridgewater
from Stackpole Books
10 color photos, 110 b/w photos, 48 drawings, 8 x 11
Easy-to-follow text
Helpful photographs
In the spirit of Rube Goldberg, pinball, and bubble-gum machines, Alan and Gill Bridgewater present ten wildly complex marble-action woodworking projects that are as entertaining to make as they are to play with. Contraptions such as the Marble Deceleration Honeycomb Maze, Perpetual Random Number Shuffler, and Marble Rotator Finger-Touch Tumbler Labyrinth can each be constructed easily in a weekend, but in finished form will baffle those who dare to dally with them. Step-by-step instructions with accompanying photos and detailed plans make construction easy. Metric conversions included.
Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw: 30 Projects in Wood
by Judy Peterson
from Fox Chapel Publishing
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