http://www.thewoodcrafter.net/proj/p67.php

No, not on a toy boat kick, looking for something.



JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso

J T wrote:
http://www.thewoodcrafter.net/proj/p67.php

No, not on a toy boat kick, looking for something.



JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso


G'day JOAT,
When I was a kid we used to make something similar and sail them on the
dams.
We used a cork for the rear paddle with pieces of tin cut from a
fruit/baked bean can and sliced them into the cork on 4 sides for blades.
If you put 3 or 4 lackey bands on it you could get the front to plane
quite nicely, but they would never go as far a a single lackey wound tight.

regards
John

Wed, Aug 22, 2007, 3:26pm (EDT+12) ""johntoymaker\"@large puddle.com"
(John*B) waves and says:
G'day JOAT,
When I was a kid we used to make something similar snip

Hiya John. We made 'em too. Don't recall just how the paddlwheels were
made, but the results were about the same. Amazing how adults now need
plans to make something like this, and as kids we didn't use plans at
all. Used to make darts too, take a corncob, stick thre feathers in one
end, and a nail, point out, in the other end.



JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso

The really sad thing about toys like this is that I make and sell them
for$11 each at craft shows. I'm not sad about the money, it's an easy buck,
just sad that more kids would rather buy then make and so many parents have
no idea of how to make toys like this.
"J T" wrote in message
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Wed, Aug 22, 2007, 3:26pm (EDT+12) ""johntoymaker\"@large puddle.com"
(John B) waves and says:
G'day JOAT,
When I was a kid we used to make something similar snip

Hiya John. We made 'em too. Don't recall just how the paddlwheels were
made, but the results were about the same. Amazing how adults now need
plans to make something like this, and as kids we didn't use plans at
all. Used to make darts too, take a corncob, stick thre feathers in one
end, and a nail, point out, in the other end.



JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso