Wooden toys

[vtfireman85]

We went to a small local fair today, I love wooden toys, this guy had a booth set up with the  most intricate wooden toys I have ever seen. They ranged from basic robust toys for little kids to play with to some real show pieces for display, his prices were very very reasonable. I bought this crane and fleet of construction equipment for Christmas presents, but he had some really nice stuff I wouldn’t mind getting myself! 
 

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[cobfly]

8 minutes ago, vtfireman85 said:

We went to a small local fair today, I love wooden toys, this guy had a booth set up with the  most intricate wooden toys I have ever seen. They ranged from basic robust toys for little kids to play with to some real show pieces for display, his prices were very very reasonable. I bought this crane and fleet of construction equipment for Christmas presents, but he had some really nice stuff I wouldn’t mind getting myself! 
 

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Holy effin moley!

[B.B.]

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Ar4Vfmdv2/

 

That is is really good and he posts pictures as he builds.    His work is absolutely amazing 

[mmi]

If you liked them and $ was reasonable,buy more to support the guy.

As I have posted before They can range from $10 -$2000

QUITE a difference in $$$$ from child toys in pine to Adult dust collectors ,from exotic woods and 200 hours of intricate cuts.

Fastest way to make $300 in 1 x 8 cocobola into TOOTHPICKS !!! and 200gal of sawdust.

Father made 1000's 

Add in

$1500-20K for tools

$30-150 (ea) for patterns/instruction

$30-150 (ea) for "smalls " kit (rounds or shapes you need,but take commercial tooling to make in qty.)

$20-600 for the wood

1-200 hours of labor

Net from stealer/trade show $1 hour - costs.

Sold these card holders until 1-15 ppl had at least 1

 

[Ian Beale]

A bloke at Men' Shed here does things like this.

He was in one day making 72 wheels for a livestock road train he was doing.

[Matt Kirsch]

Not on the same level as most of these. Made by a 7th grade kid with no artistic or creative talent, in shop class, first time using real power tools...

 

[acem]

Dad made me a wooden battleship when I was a kid.  He was in the Navy during WWII.

[New Englander]

Nice, allows kids to use imagination. Way better that giving a smart phone.

[nepoweshiekfarmalls]

Saw this on FB:  this gentleman made all the models behind him out of wood.

[Ihfan4life]

On 8/25/2025 at 12:51 PM, Matt Kirsch said:

Not on the same level as most of these. Made by a 7th grade kid with no artistic or creative talent, in shop class, first time using real power tools...

 

That’s THE REAL wooden toy! Made by the kid who will play with it and cherish it… or destroy it without worrying about the cost of it. 

[Sledgehammer]

Now you need a barn for your equipment. 

[hardtail]

People can do some incredible hobbies, this was a guy I knew that was a retired geologist and decided to build 3 1/2 scale harleys from scratch with no previous metalworking skills, the only parts he bought were the tires and a hall sensor for the ignition trigger, some of his jigs to make the part were a work of art, I think when he started he had a small Atlas bench top lathe, a drill press and a hand hacksaw, this was done in a single garage shop, each bike was different, RIP Clarence 

 

[766 Man]

  Got to appreciate the skill and talent to make such things.

[hardtail]

Unfortunately he passed last year and had an incredible webpage documenting the journey of the project that he took down. I had a talented tool and die maker that would sometimes lack confidence in unusual repairs, one time I directed him to his website for some inspiration which did the trick on that job.

[poor farmer/logger]

The patience and skill that some people have is pretty amazing.  It’s a real art making those scale models. 
 

There’s a fellow north of Hardtail’s at Grand Prairie that does scale models out of steel. Blundell metal works is his name. 
 

https://www.blundellmw.com/portfolio/tigercat/