Two quick magic gags

Wow, two for one! Those do look like fun little projects Steve. You had me concerned at the beginning. I thought you had crossed over to become the immortal woodworker. :^)

-- Dan - Valparaiso, Indiana, "A smart man changes his mind, a fool never does."

Steve… nice Whimmy Diddle! Here in Asheville, NC we have a Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle World Championship late every summer. I have been honored to attend these great events for some time now.
Awards are trophys & Moom Pies in sountern tradition.
Here is a link to the weekend event, even includes such mundane things as tradition woodworking, weaving & other old timey crafts.
http://www.southernhighlandguild.org/pages/posts/heritage-weekend-7.php

Oh yes…. the term Gee Haw refers to direction of rotation… Gee is rightward, Haw is leftward. At the competition, the object is to see how many times a contestant can reverse direction of rotation in a short given time.
http://www.allwords.com/word-gee+haw+whimmy+diddle.html

Also….. while on a hay ride in the Cades Cove area of the Great Smoky National Park, the Park Ranger shared several primative toys for us folks on the ride to see. Among those toys were a Whimmy Diddle, and a snapper. I had seen both before, so I was able to “play along” with the Ranger’s ruse, and she and I were the only ones that could get the Whimmy Diddle and the Snapper to work. One man spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how the Snapper worked…. and after some time, gave up. He handed it back to the Ranger, she and then I both made it work, so he again carefully spent several minutes trying unsuccessfully to find the secret, while the Ranger and I just smiles knowingly at each other. Neither of us revealed the secret.

Two for one? Hey, I want my money back! What? I didn’t pay anything? Uh, uh.

Seriously Steve, those look fun to build. I’m also impressed with your ingenuity with your router jig for the propeller. Thanks for sharing.

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

I just have to build those, great projects.

-- Tom D

This was really funny
Thx Steve, i really enjoyed this video
Greetings from Belgium
Erik

-- Erik, Merksem Belgium

Steve, Always enjoy your spirit and videos.

great little gimic´s
and the propeller thing is a great litte project to learn children
to use handtools with I remember we made them in the sloyjd class
and had to plane a stick square and use a knife for the notche´s
and we fancyed them up with colourpaint in the notches and lacked them too

thank´s for sharing and the reminder of a fun project Steve

take care
Dennis

ps. have you recieved the answer ?

Great little Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle I use to make them all the time out of sticks in the yard it was such fun and would amaze people! great vid!

that was funny

-- I am not so rich to buy cheap tools.

Brilliant and great fun. Thanks, Steve.

-- Martyn -- Boxologist, Pattern Juggler and Candyman of the visually challenging. http://www.theartofboxes.com

Oh Gee Steve you keep coming up with these complicated projects and now we got to try a make two things at the same time. Even If we can make these(maybe by the years end) we have to figure how the darn things work. You must think we are Einstein or Norm or even Charles Neil. Please stop putting all that pressure on us,
It’s just to much to handle. :)) LOL
Fun projects Bud glad to see you still keeping us informed and entertained .

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Steve… you’re a regular David Blaine!!

I now look forward eagerly to your vids, and your infectious humour.
My two grandsons (7 and 6 and very bright) will be visiting from Ireland in a fortnight, so making these for/with them will be fun, and they can take them home to amuse and amaze their friends.
I’d been wondering what to do for them, so thanks, Steve, you’re an inspiration to us all!
(. . . . . . . Now I’ll have to go and look up ‘Greene & Greene’ !)

-- Don, Somerset UK, http://www.donjohnson24.co.uk

Great video! But Don J excuse my ignorance….What’s a fort????night

-- Ridin' and rippin'