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I doubt it was my FIRST project, but it sure was strange.

I built a (mostly) wooden 1 cylinder electric motor when I was in junior
high.

A wooden flywheel, wood main bearings, a wood cam, all mounted
on a piece of plywood. The non-wood bits were the crankshaft (a bit of
coathanger wire), the solenoid (the cylinder/piston), and the microswitch
(actuated by the wood eccentric cam on the crankshaft, to fire the solenoid)
It was all powered by a Lionel electric train transformer.

And, to get some metalworking content in here...

A project that my dad & I worked on together was a WORKING model
of an 18th century ships cannon. I turned the barrel out of bronze, and he
built the carriage. The whole thing is about 14" long, bored to 60 cal, or so.
We didn't have any plans to work from, other than a picture out of a
Sears catalog.

Did I mention, fully functional?
About 50 grains of FFF black powder, some rolled up newspaper, and a coule
inches of waterproof cannon fuse.

FIRE IN THE HOLE!

BOOOOOM!

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