Wooden Dinky Toys
Wooden Dinky Toys
Wooden toys that are small in size, but BIG in fun...
Before Matchbox, Hot Wheels, or Corgi, there was Dinky Toys. About 2 to 5 inches in length, the die-cast metal cars, trucks, boats, and planes of the wildly popular Dinky Toys brand could be found on practically every playroom floor. In Wooden Dinky Toys, Les Neufeld, professional woodworker and wooden toy expert, redesigns the all-time favorites of the Dinky Toys line so woodworkers can craft playful wooden versions of these iconic metal toys. Simple enough to be made in a weekend with basic tools and materials, these whimsical projects will provide hours of joy to the satisfied woodworker who makes them and the lucky kiddo who gets to play with them.
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Praise for Wooden Dinky Toys…
"Thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, Wooden Dinky Toys is an extraordinary book and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, school, and community library woodworking project instructional reference collections.” — Midwest Book Review
About the Author
Les Neufield
Les Neufeld is a machinist and an avid woodworker. He received his woodworking training at BCIT, and then earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees at UBC in Vancouver, Canada. Later, as a high-school and college level teacher, he taught conventional and CNC Machining and Metal-working, Drafting and Design, Residential House Construction and Cabinetmaking. When his children were very young his avid woodworking interest turned to designing and making wood toys of all sorts, shapes and sizes. So much so that he wrote three wooden toy books, Tremendous Toy Trucks, Making Toys that Teach, and Great Big Toy Trucks, and now Wooden Dinky Toys.
