Making Toys, Revised Edition: Heirloom Cars and Trucks in Wood (Fox Chapel Publishing) Complete Guide with a Step-by-Step Peterbilt Project and Detailed Plans for a Ford Model A, 1932 Buick, and More - Softcover

Sam Martin; Roger Schroeder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497101166 ISBN 13: 9781497101166

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Your complete guide to making wooden toys and trucks!

• Step-by-step instructions and photography on building the featured project, a Peterbilt truck tractor
• Complete plans, measured drawings, and parts lists for a Ford Model A pickup, a 1932 Buick sedan, a flatbed trailer, and a van trailer
• Perfect for intermediate to advanced woodworkers looking to practice their scroll sawing skills
• A timeless guide for woodworkers and scroll saw enthusiasts to create nostalgic toys and collectibles

Learn from skilled woodworkers Sam Martin and Roger Schroeder as they walk you through a featured Peterbilt truck tractor project with step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow photography!

Once completed, detailed woodworking plans for other vintage toy vehicles, such as a Ford Model A pickup, a 1932 Buick sedan, a flatbed trailer, and a van trailer, are also provided for you to accomplish on your own with your newfound skills! Each scroll saw and wood-working project contains the measured drawings and parts lists you'll need to ensure success.

Perfect for intermediate to advanced scroll sawyers and woodworkers looking to practice their skills while creating vintage cars and toys, Making Toys: Heirloom Cars & Trucks in Wood is an excellent source of inspiration for all to enjoy!

About this title

About the Author

Even as a farm boy, Sam Martin had an interest in making toys. Although the early ones were crudely made and nailed together, Sam never lost the desire to build better toys. It was in the early 1980s that he and his son invested in shop tools. Sam built some furniture but soon devoted his time to making reproductions of trucks, cars, steam shovels and backhoes. To date Sam, a retired biochemist, has scaled down some 50 different vehicles and excavators. In over a decade and a half he has crafted nearly 3,000 toys. Sam and his wife Georgia live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Roger Schroeder's success as a writer began when he gave up trying to write the great American novel. Instead, he turned to writing about his hobby: woodworking. Sharpening his skills and his photography and expanding his interests, he went on to author 16 books and nearly 200 magazine articles. Ranging in scope from woodcarving to house building, the books include such titles as How to Carve Wildfowl, Carving Signs, Making Toys, and Timber Frame Construction, which has over 77,000 copies in print. Founding editor of Wood Carving Illustrated, Roger is past president of the Long Island Woodcarvers Association and active in the Long Island Wood Workers club. He is a retired English teacher who specialized in teaching writing and research, Roger currently lectures on topics such as how to make wood into furniture, houses and sculpture. In the remaining time, he is an amateur cabinetmaker who enjoys constructing Victorian reproductions, and is an amateur carver who has won a number of blue ribbons for his natural wood sculptures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1497101166
• ISBN 13: 9781497101166
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 96