These charming mechanical contraptions will captivate anyone who operates them—and creative woodworkers will find them fun to make. “Quite impressive...[Frost] offers colorful drawings. Designs include a dancing lumberjack, an exercising couple, and many more, all powered by handcrank or wind. This title is a nice departure from woodworking titles that require expensive materials and measurements to 1/64". Recommended.”—Library Journal.
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Rodney Frost has designed bottles and tableware, written for newspapers, made snowshoes, decorated popcorn wagons, built buggies and sleighs, been a seafront candymaker, and raised a family, in addition to writing several books on woodworking. He is a graduate of Brighton College of Art and has appeared on the TV programs "In the Workshop," "Canadian Gardening TV," and "Hands Over Time." He lives in Orillia, Ontario, where he sews clothes for himself, plays his euphonium, and wonders what's coming next.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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A Beautiful Book,
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This review is from: Whacky Toys, Whirligigs & Whatchamacallits (Paperback)
This is the best of the mechanical/whirligig books I've run across. Beautiful color photographs and detailed illustrations of Frost's very strange toys including dancing lumberjacks, boxing angels and demons, machine-gunning whirligigs, and the wonderfully painted 'houses' that hold the hand-cranks that give life to these creatures. An excellent resource for toy and wood-working ideas.
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The only book on making automata with actual plans,
By Dug North "Automata Artist" (Lowell, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Whacky Toys, Whirligigs & Whatchamacallits (Paperback)
This book features fourteen projects. Each project has a bit of text, a photo, and many nice vector illustrations detailing the project's construction. The artist's work is colorful, assorted, and playful. People determined to build an automaton are sure to find a project in this book that speaks to them.
For a visually oriented person who doesn't need every step spelled out, this book is a gem. The drawings are very clear and complete and there is some text to help you through the tricky parts. In sum, if you have even a little experience working with wood and would like to build automata, this book will be invaluable.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Re-released with New Title,
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This review is from: Whacky Toys, Whirligigs & Whatchamacallits (Paperback)
His new (2007) book, "Making Mad Toys and Merchanical Marvels in Wood", is exactly the same, word for word. Either book is terrific, you just don't need to buy both.
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