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• TURNING VINTAGE TOYS

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  To the delight of children and grandchildren, this handy guidebook offers an assortment of vintage wooden toy projects that hearken to bygone eras. Drawing primarily from Victorian and Edwardian eras, each wonderful toy project offers step-by-step instructions, cutting lists, wood recommendations, and techniques such as jigmaking and turning spheres and cylinders. In these 15 projects, crafters will find age-appropriate toys for toddlers to teens, including a diabalo for juggling, a yo-yo, toy soldiers and mice, colorful stacking discs, spinning tops, and bowling pins. More skilled toymakers will enjoy the challenge of crafting a kaleidoscope and a walking cow. Variations for each project allow crafters to personalize each toy, and a brief history of how and where the toy was used provides added value and interest.

• FAN BACK ARMCHAIR

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  This is Mr. Dunbar's personal chair. The crest is steam bent using a form. The design has its origins in the coastal area of Massachusetts. The back spindles are turned and tenoned into the arms. 44"H X 24"W X 17"D. Skill level advanced.

• PIE SAFE

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  Long before iceboxes became a common household item, frugal homemakers everywhere stored their bread and pastries in a pie safe. Buy prepunched tin panels or use the instructions to punch your own. 59" T x 14" D x 20" W.

• FUTON SOFABED

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  Folds up or down in one smooth motion. Fits full-size mattress. 86"L x 36"D x 33"H as a sofa.

• Manual Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop

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  Manual Training Toys for the Boy’s Workshop was originally published in 1912. After a short introductory section on basic woodworking and shop tools, the book offers 42 shop projects. Each project comes with a cutting list and dimensioned drawing, and all date from the early part of the 20th century (many, no doubt, are from the 19th century). Many of these projects are toys that require some skill in woodwork but they are not too difficult for boys and their dads to do together. When the book was first published it was dedicated to “the boy who likes to tinker ‘round,” so it was really written with the thought that the boys could make these projects without adult supervision. Many of the projects would now be considered nostalgic reminders of a time when things were much simpler and boys were trained to use tools and make things that would be at times useful, and always entertaining. This was a time long before text messaging and video games. Projects include a Fourth of July or New Years eve rattle, a cannon that shoots marbles, a kite string reel, a pop-gun and whistle, a bow and arrow, a sword, a magic box, and 35 other fun things for boys to build.

• COUNTRY-STYLE PICNIC TABLE

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  Benches 17"H x 11"W x 72"L, Table 30"H x 29"W x 72"