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    Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, & Folk Toys
    Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, & Folk Toys
    Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, & Folk Toys
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    Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, & Folk Toys

    By Rodney Frost

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    Create unique whirligigs and other moving-part creations, traditional folk toys, and unusual new designs out of wood.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStackpole Books
    Release dateJun 10, 2011
    ISBN9780811744997
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      Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, & Folk Toys - Rodney Frost

      Making

      Whirligigs

      Whimsies

      and

      Folk Toys

      Making

      Whirligigs

      Whimsies

      and

      Folk Toys

      RODNEY FROST

      STACKPOLE

      BOOKS

      Copyright © 2011 by Rodney Frost

      Published by

      STACKPOLE BOOKS

      5067 Ritter Road

      Mechanicsburg, PA 17055

      www.stackpolebooks.com

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Stackpole Books, 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg PA 17055.

      Printed in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      First edition

      Cover design by Wendy A. Reynolds

      Illustrations by the author; photographs by Leanne Mumford, except where otherwise noted.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Frost, Rodney.

      Making whirligigs, whimsies, and folk toys / Rodney Frost. -- 1st ed.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 978-0-8117-0807-4

      1. Wooden toy making. I. Title.

      TT174.5.W6F6744 2011

      745.592--dc22

      2010053886

      Contents

      Before You Begin

      Puzzles

      Whimmy Diddles

      The Rollin’ Clown

      The Peckin’ Bird

      Limberjacks

      Devils

      The Madding Crowd

      Wigwags

      Mermaid

      The Liberty Ball

      $4 Pants and a Million-Dollar Gal

      The Swing

      The Canoe

      New Day, Old Ways

      Foxhounds

      The Rower

      The Avenging Tooth Fairy

      Propellers

      Tips

      Before

      You Begin

      Once, I was commissioned to do a job to fit into a large shop window. I had measured up the window but then when I went to install the piece I found that I was off by about two feet! I apologized for my mistake to my customer but he just laughed and said, Welcome to the human race!

      Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, and Folk Toys has plans and instructions for quite a number of things to make (what some people call projects). In this book you will find some traditional pieces and some of my own invention.

      For this book I first made all the pieces, then I took them apart, then I drew the elevations, and then I made the illustrations. Sometimes when translating from three to two dimensions things change a little; some parts become a little fatter, others a little thinner. So don’t be a slavish follower—your ideas are good too. Use these ideas and pictures of mine as a guide to intelligent thought. You won’t find many exact measurements to follow; you’ll have to get things right for yourself using good old empiricism. The exactness comes in getting things to work. Yes sir!

      On the other hand, some drawings look as if you could just copy them onto wood and put it all together to work perfectly the first time—but that might not be the case, because each piece of wood is different, just as each of us is different. And because sometimes we tend to make things a little thicker than is called for and other times we make things a bit thinner than they should be. And sometimes we make mistakes—but don’t worry. That’s how it is. That’s how we are.

      Welcome to the human race!

      —Rodney Frost

      Puzzles

      The ability to move things around in your head just as if you had them in your hands is a very useful skill. You use this ability when you’re looking at a map, figuring out where to put furniture, deciding how to pack things in a box or car or suitcase, and, of course, making something. Yes, doing something in your head first is very handy because then, when you come to do the real thing, you’ll be ready and will enjoy what to many is a harrowing task.

      These heritage puzzles will give you a chance to practice and test yourself—not only when you read about them but also when you make them, and, of course, when you try to put them back together! The furniture puzzle and variations of it have been around for years. Sometimes you can find parts of the furniture puzzle in old dollhouses.

      When I was a little guy, my grandmother had a lot of dollhouse furniture that I played with, and it wasn’t until recently, when I started making these toys, that I realized why the chairs had a little curve on the back leg. See for yourself.

      The lumberjack puzzle can get people flummoxed until they know the trick to putting it back together. It’s really a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle.

      Here’s the trick to solving the lumberjack puzzle—eight of the pieces will have at least one flat side. One piece will not have any

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