When you make small parts as I am making now to complete a 600 mini cars order, you can’t sand every parts, so I design a home made drum sander.

I used a lathe that I have put at an angle, and with pulleys and an elastic band used as a strap, to reduce the speed, build a drum sander with a empty coffee jar hooked up to the upper pulley, to load the parts in and then put the cover on and started the lathe. The tumbling effect inside and parts rubbing together does sand the parts and after a few minutes inside, the parts are cleaned.

This can be use for any small parts that you have a big quantity of, and you want to sand.

This is a basic tool, but very useful!

Here are some new wheels that will give more life to my future models.

The truck wheels are made of walnut and padauk, they are 2 3/4” diam. I could have use any other wood color, these are bud type wheels with 5 holes in the hub. I can make any type of wheel hub to fit my model.

The car wheels are the spoke type, they are 2 3/4” diam. that will fit almost any patterns on the market. They could be made in other diam. My future models will be lot more realist. I use walnut for the rim, but again any other wood color could have been chosen.

These tractor wheels are made from Toys & Joys patterns. They are fun to build.

More models to come!

This is a military truck done from Toys & Joys plans. The wood used is Affrican Walnut.

Here are some 2 new models of pickups, a medium size with single rear wheels, and a large size with dual rear wheels. The medium size is 17 1/4” long with 2 1/2” wheels, 8 1/2” long x 3 1/2 wide box. The large size is 20” long with 2 3/4” wheels with a 11” long x 3 1/2” wide box. They are made from walnut. The third one is a special medium one for a customer who bought 20.

Here are pictures of a model I’ve just completed. It was made from pictures the owner (a lady) suppied me with. The real challenge was the front fenders. The total lenth of the model is over 50 inches long.

These are models of trucks I’ve done for customers a few years back, they were made from pictures of the vehicles.

This is a cabinet I’ve done to display collections or use to sell small items in craft markets or other. Made of oak, it is 32” wide with a 12” radius top. There is 6 drawers in the back and like old curios, there is a special procedure so you can open them, they all lock with the same key. The bottom part has a sliding tray so you can reach items in the front and there is 2 plexiglass doors with lock in the back.

Here is the second set of photos, when completely extended, it was over 50 inches long. It was build from pictures of the original, the wheels are 3” in diam, the suspension is spring loaded. The booms are extendable to get to the wright lenth, the real thing when the trailer was on the truck was over 20 feets high.

Here are some pictures of an off road truck I’ve build a few years ago,

This is a truck I’ve design to fit my lowbed trailer, there is 2 version of it, with sleeper and without.