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Woodshop
Project Ideas: 2018
Family Handyman—19 Surprisingly Easy Woodworking Projects for Beginners
https://www.familyhandyman.com/woodworking/surprisingly-simple-woodworking-projects-for-beginners/view-all/
Instructables—Woodworking Projects for Beginners
https://www.instructables.com/id/Woodworking-Projects-for-Beginners/https://www.instructables.com/id/Woodworking-Projects-for-Beginners/
Woodworking for Mere Mortals—Steve Ramsey
Homepage
https://woodworkingformeremortals.com/
WWMM Steve Ramsey—Youtube Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/user/stevinmarin/playlists
Plans
https://woodworkingformeremortals.com/plans/
WWMM Steve Ramsey—Featured on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/stevinmarin/featured
Learn Woodworking
https://woodworkingformeremortals.com/learn-woodworking/
Art in Woodworking | MERE MINUTES Vlog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaYnHqrkfSs
The Wood Whisperer—Mark J. Spagnuolo
Home Page
https://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/
Projects
https://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/projects/
Jewelry Boxes
https://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/videos/scrapwood-jewelry-boxes/
13 Woodworking Projects You Can Make as Gifts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xIBHHdJQ14
LumberJocks
http://lumberjocks.com/
Jon Peters—Art and Home
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOUFSlpGiL9I3jPbt0vcI0A/
Woodshop Cowboy—Patrick Waters
https://woodshopcowboy.com/woodworking-projects-plans-and-courses/
Woodworkers Source
http://www.woodworkerssource.com/photopost/
Tablesaw Central: Complete List of Woodworking Youtubers
https://www.tablesawcentral.com/the-complete-list-of-woodworking-youtubers/
Woodshop
Wood Toys & Automata
Intermediate School Student-Made Automata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5EWrFqXJYM
Year 8 cam automata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDxwP5v9ZQw
Automata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qoYVg-mbaQ&list=PL36FD9E0E3520D971
Automata Sampler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz8TV7gkeT0
Lee Valley & Veritas: Automata—A Fascinating Woodcraft—Part 1
http://www.leevalley.com/newsletters/Woodworking/3/1/article2.htm
Lee Valley and Veritas--How to Make an automata—Part 2: Barking Dog
http://www.leevalley.com/newsletters/Woodworking/3/2/article2.htm
Automaton and Mechanical Toy Plans
http://dugnorth.com/automaton-plans.aspx
Marble Racing Machine—Scroll Saw Workshop—videos & instruction
Part 1:
http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2008/10/marble-automation-machine.html#8619426134828267597
Part 2:
http://www.stevedgood.com/marbleautomata.pdf
Great site with info. on actual steps of construction!!! Explore this site fully.
http://www.design-technology.info/mt/
Cam mechanism toys made by children:
http://www.powerstock.dorset.sch.uk/DT02/dt02.htm
Ramp-walking Robot
http://blog.dugnorth.com/2011/02/download-plans-for-ramp-walking-wooden.html
Ramp-walking Rhino
—See written plans from class and internet site.
http://blog.dugnorth.com/2010/09/plans-to-make-ramp-walking-wooden-rhino.html
Whale Automata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUGAoOGcWyc
Ramp-walking turkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-9Rs01KLWY
Wood-hopping kangaroo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2o7TjNvUiQ
Ramp-walking elephant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BiIjEwIbBg
Automata Blog
—Great Resource for plans!!!!!
http://blog.dugnorth.com/2011/02/download-plans-for-ramp-walking-wooden.html
Walking penguin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZYof2nksgM
Walking Duck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huOoqu6O-Yo
OTHER TOYS
“New Toys”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXwR5A_nHA&list=TLvBAcf5Pi8ic
Acrobat / Flapjack / Trapeze Toy
http://www.tintoyarcade.com/products/Wooden-Monkey-Trapeze-Toy-Classic.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1JSNCP17NU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAXqUjVbhUE
http://www.toysfromtimespast.com/toys/flap2.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-dOYKHS-Po
http://www.toypost.co.uk/acrobat-squeeze-toy-monkey-sku803.html
http://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/projects/1188/make-a-toy-acrobat/
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/toys/Monkeyacrobat.html
Clatter Noise-making Toy for Toddlers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7zclwj8yR8
Dancing Dan
http://prairiewindtoyco.com/folktoys.html
http://www.etsy.com/listing/9997821/handcrafted-wooden-dancing-man-heirloom
Hopping Bunny
http://www.etsy.com/listing/62432166/handcrafted-childrens-hopping-rabbit?ref=related-0
Fish out of water (automata?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YH5-YZUfg8
Fish out of water – different version—Great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQvMUR1KE3o
Russian Wooden Toys
—a couple different ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUthoLddEHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZqyOELWXQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_8wtbPjpC8
Toy Slowly Moving down slope
--
noho91
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKPZPnjwFiw&list=UUCtRR9qv0qedri9SwN83v1w
Clattering Toys 1 & 2
--
noho91
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4CdSkw95pw&list=UUCtRR9qv0qedri9SwN83v1w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fWGafsf-yw&list=UUCtRR9qv0qedri9SwN83v1w
Spring Toy that Rolls
--
noho91
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESYfN7DYYPk&list=UUCtRR9qv0qedri9SwN83v1w
Roller Coaster Toy
--
noho91
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9uhc1hegkI&list=UUCtRR9qv0qedri9SwN83v1w
Magnet Mobile
--
noho91
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKJsGDX9fgw&list=UUCtRR9qv0qedri9SwN83v1w
Rotary Mobile
(w/ notebook wire-- see previous/following mobile videos)
--
noho91
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DuhysXvLrQ&list=UUCtRR9qv0qedri9SwN83v1w
Japanese folk toys—tumbling on ladder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmh5jeAWSGU
Climbing Fireman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzOXvP0_gKg
Climbing Monkey/Orangutan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dbZTfASokA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9T0LKlQV0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dbZTfASokA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLRf14fpB0
Jacob’s Ladder
–(in Spanish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yaxrRHygI
Tumbling Cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxwp0Q-yS7Y
Waddling Duck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huOoqu6O-Yo
Woodpecker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3YSnNAIHDg
Ball and Cup / Kendama / Balero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xscIJAotXPg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap6CACXzSH8
Ball and Cup “Basketball Style”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRdTCpvnJ9k
Buzz Saws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Jhc-tme9U
http://www.westernheritagemuseum-uc-ut.org/old-fashioned-wooden-toys.html
Propellers
http://prairiewindtoyco.com/folktoys.html
Flapper duck push toy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw5VPAPm348http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw5VPAPm348
Amish Rolling Ball Toy for Toddlers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBrSRcVfyE
Rocking Horse
(See
other
websites for plans for larger rocking horses)
http://www.etsy.com/listing/62671939/rocking-horse-wooden-toy-kids-toy-safe
Toys for Infants and Toddlers
http://www.etsy.com/shop/littlesaplingtoys?ref=pr_shop_more
Whimmy doodle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV5wciLDRMQ
Marble racer
http://canadianhomeworkshop.com/6461/project-plans/build-a-marble-racer
String toys—simple & easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V6j8r3G8so
Sites With Free Plans
http://www.squidoo.com/free-wooden-toy-plans
Kids’ projects
http://canadianhomeworkshop.com/project-plans?subcategory=kids-projects&time=0&cost=0&complexity=0&keywords
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Engineering
Mechanical Principles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gjyVqwrf3E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQ2pXkYjRM
http://blog.dugnorth.com/2012/01/mechanical-principles-film-of.html
http://www.mechanical-toys.com/cams.htm
How To Drill a Square Hole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5AzbDJ7KYI
Miscellaneous
Optical Illusions—Balls on ramp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmkaVoLoFEU
TED Talks Arvind Gupta Turning Trash into Toys
http://www.ted.com/talks/arvind_gupta_turning_trash_into_toys_for_learning.html
Blind Toymaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9WmwprtrIY
Toy Manufacturing in Channapatna, Bangalore, India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CMObKWF8oc
Bow-Lathe (hand powered)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZdUDJXi7vo
Noho 91
More than 100 videos from one woodworker of his ingenious toys, inventions and clever approaches to woodworking
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKPZPnjwFiw&feature=c4overview&list=UUCtRR9qv0qedri9SwN83v1w
Video #
Topic
1 making dowels
3-5, 136 toys that move down ramps
11-13 custom belt sanders
16 stool
19, 59-63 slightly fat rabbit, sparrow, hen, cat & dog, other animals
25 tall chair/stool
26 picture frame with scroll saw
29 containers made using scroll saw
31 making wooden dowels
32-35 toys that blow smoke rings
42 & 46--50 hand powered fans
43-45 miniature kites
51, 64 toy crane
52 making finish head screw
53 & 54 stool with toy golf game on top
54 using router to carve concave dips
55 extending jaws on bar clamp
56 sanding with sanding belt that is fixed rather than moving
57, 58 sanding concave surfaces
65 plastic bottle crushing with vacuum cleaner
67-70, 72-80 various methods of making wooden balls
80 making small balls from two halves w/ dowel & router
71 rolling spring toy
81 homemade compasses for drawing
83-87 moving clamps & screws quickly
88 cutting concave surfaces with hanging router
89 carving convex surfaces with router
90 toy top that comes and goes
94—102 cutting tenons to desired size
107-108,
111
-114 methods of making dowels (#111 especially good)
115 roller coaster toy
117-118 dangling, spinning pencil and pen
116, 119-123 magnet mobiles
67,124-9, 131-2 various clamps, homemade and modifications
130, 134-35 child’s stool as a toy
133 “eyeball” pen holder
136 variation of clatter toy roller
66, 137 can-crushing clog shoes