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    Making Toys, Revised Edition: Heirloom Cars & Trucks in Wood
    Making Toys, Revised Edition: Heirloom Cars & Trucks in Wood
    Making Toys, Revised Edition: Heirloom Cars & Trucks in Wood
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    Making Toys, Revised Edition: Heirloom Cars & Trucks in Wood

    By Sam Martin and Roger Schroeder

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    Making Toys is a complete guide to making wooden toys and trucks. 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 cars – including a F

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFox Chapel Publishing
    Release dateOct 6, 2020
    ISBN9781607658351
    Making Toys, Revised Edition: Heirloom Cars & Trucks in Wood
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    Sam Martin

    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.

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      Making Toys, Revised Edition - Sam Martin

      PROJECT GALLERY

      Projects in the Book

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      This is the featured step-by-step project, the Peterbilt Truck. Patterns start here, and you can follow along with the complete building process in 155 steps starting here.

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      The Flatbed Trailer fits behind the Peterbilt Truck tractor. (Patterns and details starting here.)

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      The Ford Model A Pickup—a classic for more than half a century—is an ideal project for the woodworker beginning to build Sam’s wooden replicas. (Patterns and details starting here.)

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      1932 Buick Sedan. (Patterns and details starting here.)

      Project Inspiration

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      This backhoe uses a series of springs to give an impressively realistic hydraulic system effect.

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      This pumper truck is impressive in either of Sam Martin’s favorite woods—oak or cherry

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      A hallmark of Sam’s toys is that every individual piece is made from wood, even down to the Mack emblem made of wooden veneer.

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