- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Sterling (2 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0806992867
- ISBN-13: 978-0806992860
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.3 x 0.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,293,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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They're playful and delightful, and they'll redefine your idea of what a toy can be. These charming mechanical contraptions will surprise and engage anyone who operates them - and they'll entice the creative woodworker, too, because these whirligigs are as much fun to make as to manoeuvre. Everything moves on these toys, whirligigs, and whatchamacallits -set in motion by the wind or your hand. The projects are ingenious in both the way you'll craft them and how they spin and turn. Straight pulleys trigger eyes and eyebrows to rotate, for example, while a crank causes the jaw to work up and down. Create a lumberjack dancing a jig, a sailor rowing a boat, grandpa shaving wood, and more.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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A Beautiful Book, 21 Dec 2002
By michael mccarthy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Whacky Toys, Whirligigs and 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.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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The only book on making automata with actual plans, 25 Nov 2004
By Dug North "Automata Artist" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Whacky Toys, Whirligigs and 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:
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Re-released with New Title, 9 Aug 2007
By J. B. Dunn - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Whacky Toys, Whirligigs and 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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