Frank Pellow
06-06-2006, 10:19 PM
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I built my grandson a ring toss game for his 4th birthday. The plans for this are in the Reader’s Digest Children’s Games/Toys/Furniture book (ISBN: 0-89577-790-8) that I have used in the past to make several gift. The game was made from small pieces of plywood and dowel left over from other projects. Following is a “picture essay” of the project.
01) The rings were made from 5 millimetre plywood. Here they are being marked with a compass.
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02) After some experimentation with both a jigsaw and scroll saw, I decided to cut the rings with a thin blade on the jigsaw. The hole that I built into my workbench when I built it many years ago came in very handy here.
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03) Next, the interior and exterior edges of the rings were hand sanded.
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04) Turning now to the game case which consists of a duplicate top and bottom bases cut from 12 millimetre plywood. In the centre of each of these, I glued a small piece of 12 millimetre plywood. A hole will later be drilled through both of these to support the pegs over which the rings are to be tossed.
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I built my grandson a ring toss game for his 4th birthday. The plans for this are in the Reader’s Digest Children’s Games/Toys/Furniture book (ISBN: 0-89577-790-8) that I have used in the past to make several gift. The game was made from small pieces of plywood and dowel left over from other projects. Following is a “picture essay” of the project.
01) The rings were made from 5 millimetre plywood. Here they are being marked with a compass.
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02) After some experimentation with both a jigsaw and scroll saw, I decided to cut the rings with a thin blade on the jigsaw. The hole that I built into my workbench when I built it many years ago came in very handy here.
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03) Next, the interior and exterior edges of the rings were hand sanded.
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04) Turning now to the game case which consists of a duplicate top and bottom bases cut from 12 millimetre plywood. In the centre of each of these, I glued a small piece of 12 millimetre plywood. A hole will later be drilled through both of these to support the pegs over which the rings are to be tossed.
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