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Emily's rocker

First, a warning. For some reason this year the kids got into the dressup clothes and so a lot of the pictures in this series show people, tall and short, with some adornment, sometimes bizarre.

Emily:
Arm Finger Lap Sharing Fun


Watch Sleeve Gesture Waist Thigh


Wood Plywood Hardwood Wood stain Slide sandal


Fourteen months old, barely toddling. I decided on a rocker, and in the construction two things unfolded: It became an exercise in materials-at-hand which translated to a nice tour of some hardwoods, and (2) it didn't have a farm animal head (rejected early on) or a nice modern bobsleddy shape. It became, in retrospect, a grandpa self portrait.

Species: quartersawn red oak, big leaf maple, walnut, eastern hard rock maple, birch, fir and alder.
 

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Juni's Step Stool with Special Compartment

Juni's over 2 and is a climber. Having spent a couple of months in a spica cast, she is compensating by being everywhere at once. I thought, as a grandparent, I ought to help her get new places, taller ones!

Joint Shoe Gesture Thigh Leisure


Wood Sharing Fun Toddler Lap


Table Furniture Chair Wood Rectangle


The material is juniper solid stock, waterborne poly finish. Dimensions: 16 inches wide, steps 6 inches high, tread 6 inches as well.
 

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Juni's Step Stool with Special Compartment

Juni's over 2 and is a climber. Having spent a couple of months in a spica cast, she is compensating by being everywhere at once. I thought, as a grandparent, I ought to help her get new places, taller ones!

Joint Shoe Gesture Thigh Leisure


Wood Sharing Fun Toddler Lap


Table Furniture Chair Wood Rectangle


The material is juniper solid stock, waterborne poly finish. Dimensions: 16 inches wide, steps 6 inches high, tread 6 inches as well.
Very nice. Love the secret compartment idea. Nice grain.
Vicki
 

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A Magic Box for the Princess

Lily was born a princess; Walt Disney just provided a little context.

The box is clear eastern pine, the feet and top are figured maple.

Organ Smile Sleeve Happy Fashion design


Hair Sleeve Eyewear Electric blue Fun


Wood Rectangle Hardwood Wood stain Varnish


Brown Wood Rectangle Picture frame Wood stain


The coin on the top is set in epoxy resin, as are the key and the jewels in the bottom. Some of the jewels are costume, others are fresh water pearls.
 

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Breyer's Horsey Books need a home

Maya has taken a shine to the Breyer series and needed a place to keep them. A little leather embellishment seemed just the ticket to enliven the blandness of the maple plywood. The boots are figured maple. The inside piece of the boot is horizontal grain in contrast to the outside piece, just for visual interest.

Maya is not a cowgirl but that could happen down the trail. Right now the broader interest is animals so I didn't want to overdue the western theme, but just a bookcase wasn't enough.







The case measures eighteen inches by eleven and a quarter. The clearance to the table is three and a half. The boots are nine and a half high with an additional inch and a half of leather.
 

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Bjorn's Master Control

He's the only boy in this tribe's generation, and boy howdy does he like guy stuff. Trucks, construction equipment, and being around his dad's job, which is operations manager of a resort water park. Big valves and gauges and switches!

The only money expended on these five projects was $5.00 at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore to score some switches and knobs and stuff. That made up about 1/3 of the dashboard; the rest was just around the shop in boxes and drawers.

Nothing is really operational, but you can get some clicking sounds if you want them. This was by design: This is a toy of the imagination, not one of replication. Bjorn can control anything he wants with this (well, with the exception of his sister I suppose).

The dashboard itself is 17 inches wide and 16 high. The low end is 5.5 inches off the deck, the high end 11.
The labels were from an exotic stainless steel manifold which evidently once was part of a brewery.

Electronic instrument Audio equipment Circuit component Electronic component Electronic engineering


Gas Rectangle Font Electronic device Auto part


Wood Gas Auto part Circle Gauge


Gauge Measuring instrument Gas Machine Auto part


Font Audio equipment Gas Gauge Wood


Material is mahogany plywood, edgebanded and lacquered.
 

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Bjorn's Master Control

He's the only boy in this tribe's generation, and boy howdy does he like guy stuff. Trucks, construction equipment, and being around his dad's job, which is operations manager of a resort water park. Big valves and gauges and switches!

The only money expended on these five projects was $5.00 at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore to score some switches and knobs and stuff. That made up about 1/3 of the dashboard; the rest was just around the shop in boxes and drawers.

Nothing is really operational, but you can get some clicking sounds if you want them. This was by design: This is a toy of the imagination, not one of replication. Bjorn can control anything he wants with this (well, with the exception of his sister I suppose).

The dashboard itself is 17 inches wide and 16 high. The low end is 5.5 inches off the deck, the high end 11.
The labels were from an exotic stainless steel manifold which evidently once was part of a brewery.

Electronic instrument Audio equipment Circuit component Electronic component Electronic engineering


Gas Rectangle Font Electronic device Auto part


Wood Gas Auto part Circle Gauge


Gauge Measuring instrument Gas Machine Auto part


Font Audio equipment Gas Gauge Wood


Material is mahogany plywood, edgebanded and lacquered.
What a great gift for a little guy. Nice job
 

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