Building Blocks Pattern / Template

I made a quick pattern for some buiding blocks in response to a request on the Free 4 All Scrollsaw Patterns forums.  I added some basic dimensions but don’t be afraid to scale the sizes larger.

Click here or on the image below to view and download the full size pdf file.

Queen Elizabeth Builds Bowling Skills on Her Wii

This is just too crazy and cool not to post.  The Queen of England apparently enjoys playing bowling games on her grandson’s Nintendo Wii.  Here is a link to the full story on CNET’s Crave blog http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9847108-1.html

The Stove is Finished!!!!!

The stove that I posted a hand drawing of in the Putting Ideas on Paper posting is finally finished. And my daughter loves it! I took a lot of pictures while building it and I will post just exactly how I built the stove during future postings. I just had to put up a picture of the completed project because I am so excited about how great it turned out!!!

Putting Ideas on Paper!

We all have lots of ideas of things that we would like to build or projects that we would like to do, but it can be very difficult to take the idea and turn it into something real. In order to take the idea that is floating around in my head and give it a physical formI always start a project with a quick hand sketch. I have attached the sketch of one the projects that I am currently working on, a children’s play stove. As you can see it is rudimentary, no dimensions and it is not to scale. But, it does provide a clear illustration of what I want to build and it gives me a starting point I from which to refine the design. In a month or two when the stove project is finished you can check back and see how much my play stove actually looks like its prototype sketch.

Paint The Wood Truck!

To add a little flair to the toy truck from the previous posting, we are going to paint it and add a couple of highlight pieces made from a few other scraps lying around the shop.

To paint the truck I used the inexpensive tubes of acrylic paint that can be found at most craft stores.

I painted the body of the truck a crimson red. In order to paint all sides and let them dry at once I left screws in the holes for the front wheels and hung it from my worktable as seen in the photo below.

I painted the wheels black and to let them dry I set them on top of four screws that I ran into a scrap piece of plywood.

I decided that to flair the project up a little that I would add a bumper made from piece of scrap wood that was just lying on the floor of my shop. I painted the bumper grey. I also had a ½” dowel that I cut two small pieces from and these pieces are the headlights. I painted the headlights white.

After all of the parts were dry, I assembled them into the final truck. I screwed the wheels back on and used brad nails and glue to attach the bumper and glue to attach the headlights.

It was a fun and inexpensive toy project to build and there are many more customizations and improvements that can be made to the truck to make it even better. Thanks for reading www.justbuildstuff.com.

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