Lew Hodgett wrote:
"clueluss husbund" wrote:

Does anybody know of any detaled instructons "online" of how to make
Lincoln Logs.???

Haven't played with my Lincoln Log set in more years than I care to
remember, but it copies the interlocking joint used to build a log
cabin using hand tools such as an axe and adds.

Should be rather easy to build a jig for either a router or even a
dado to cut the ends, just have to make sure you can get a
repeatable
180 degree index..

You're on your own as far as log length and number of cuts in each
log
type.

You mean kids still play with Lincoln Logs?

Amazing.

My guess is by the time you buy enough materials, design and build
the
tooling, buy whatever tools you may need, pay yourself $0.0/hour, it
will still be less expensive to buy than build.

The original set is 100 bucks. There are smaller sets for less. One
can get an awful big set of Lincoln Logs out of 100 bucks worth of 4/4
poplar, and it doesn't seem to me that there are any special tools
needed if one already has a decently equipped shop. The only thing
I'd need to go out and buy to make them is the green and red dyes (and
maybe the brown if it's gone bad--I haven't used it in a while).

On the indexing, start with a board, cut it to length plus an inch or
so, make all the cutouts, round them while still in the board using a
bullnose bit (here's how http://www.routerworkshop.com/easydl.html),
then cut them free, sand, stain, and you're done.




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