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Lee Schierer
04-06-2004, 1:05 PM
Here are my latest toy making efforts. I made two of these road graders for my grand kids. It will be delivered this weekend. They are made from maple and are unfinished. The wheels and round parts were made on my bandsaw. The blade will swivel left and right. It is about 13-1/2" long and two of them required about 10-12 hours to make.

The plans came from "The Great All American Wooden Toy Book" by Norm Marshall. Just Google the title and a long list of sites that have the book will come up.
Bruce Page
04-06-2004, 1:15 PM
Wow Lee, talk about detail! That is really neat!
Jim Becker
04-06-2004, 1:16 PM
That's awesome, Lee. What's amazing about these kind of toys is that they look like the real thing and still offer so much to the imagination. And the use of wood to make them is something I wish we'd see more often. We depend upon plastic way too much in our society...
Daniel Rabinovitz
04-06-2004, 1:30 PM
Lee
The road grader looksSuper
It looks like a tonsofun toy.
Daniel :cool:
Jason Tuinstra
04-06-2004, 1:55 PM
Lee, good job. I'm sure the road-grader-operator is going to love it.
Chris Padilla
04-06-2004, 2:03 PM
Lee,

Could you send those to CA-DOT? I think they cold use 'em to fix our roads!! :D

Nice job...do you plan to finish them?
Anton Smolka
04-06-2004, 3:27 PM
Here are my latest toy making efforts. I made two of these road graders for my grand kids. It will be delivered this weekend. They are made from maple and are unfinished. The wheels and round parts were made on my bandsaw. The blade will swivel left and right. It is about 13-1/2" long and two of them required about 10-12 hours to make.

WOW! :eek:
Bart Leetch
04-06-2004, 4:03 PM
Great looking Road Patrol Lee.
Ken Garlock
04-06-2004, 5:15 PM
Man, that is a slick grader. You have the right amount of detail while keeping it strong for youngster use. :)

Nice job....
Frank Pellow
04-07-2004, 3:42 PM
Very impressive Lee. My grandchidren would love toys like this. Did you design these yourself?
Robert Ducharme
04-07-2004, 6:08 PM
My driveway needs re-grading, do you want to come over and play? :D
David Rose
04-07-2004, 7:02 PM
Neat job Lee! They look like they can handle some real use. I hope the kids have a worthwhile area that "needs roads".

David
Dar Lounsbury
04-07-2004, 9:19 PM
Could not agree with Jim more. Plastic fanastic.....humbug. Very nice job on these small scale contruction devices (toys??).