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O.K. so this is hardly a project worthy of the wall…. but just look at that smile!
A couple bucks worth of scrap lumber…. an hour in the shop with my little girl… an easy project that had a lot of learning snuck in there…. What’s not to like?
With the Olympics coming up fast…. and the new American Girl doll movie about a girl who is a gymnist, and a leatard from the craft fair… this project just had to happen.
We assumed the a gymnast was 5’ tall and worked out a scale factor for a typical 18” doll…. Then we researched the official sizes for the ballance beam and sketched up our plan. And my little math girl did ALL the calculations her self… Toss in a little simple geometry for finding the center of a rectangle, etc..
Next up is the parallel bars :^)
PS…. you can see a little of my timber framing handywork in the back ground…. but after 16 years, that project still isn’t 100% done (as my wife is ever faithful to remind me) so I can’t count that as a COMPLETED project)
-- Pine is fine, but Oak's no joke!
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14 comments so far
Woodwrecker
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#1 posted 349 days ago
Great job & great smile !
-- Eric
johnstoneb
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#2 posted 349 days ago
I think that project is well deserving of the wall. The time spent with your daughter can’t be duplicated. That’s where the smile really comes from.
-- Bruce
Dusty56
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#3 posted 349 days ago
Nice work to the both of you : )
-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.
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#4 posted 349 days ago
From what I’ve seen, the savings in lumber have more than been made up for by the doll :-)
-- "There's plenty of time to read the instruction manual when you're laying in the hospital bed". - Dad
Jamie Speirs
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#5 posted 349 days ago
I see TWO big smiles.
Life don’t get better
Jamie
-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mainiac Matt
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#6 posted 349 days ago
savings in lumber have more than been made up for by the doll
trust me… that was Grampi’s doing… though I’m glad to see how much she plays with it.
-- Pine is fine, but Oak's no joke!
T. D. Reid
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#7 posted 348 days ago
Its a great build when you get a smile that big and save that much money doing it. Cheers
-- Head to the shop its calling you – Todd
Mainiac Matt
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#8 posted 348 days ago
they sell the Gymnastics set at the AG store for $80
:^O
-- Pine is fine, but Oak's no joke!
Monte Pittman
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#9 posted 348 days ago
That smile says this project had to be posted. That makes it an awesome job!
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability
gfadvm
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#10 posted 348 days ago
Matching smiles. Even the doll looks happy. Good job to the both of you.
-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm
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#11 posted 348 days ago
Great job and great smiles! Really neat idea too.
-- I came, I was conquered, I was born again. ἵνα ὦσιν ἓν
lumberjoe
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#12 posted 348 days ago
Very nice!
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Rick
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#13 posted 346 days ago
Very Nice Project! Thanks for Posting!
Rick
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#14 posted 231 days ago
Wonderful smiles!
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