These are some Christmas pull toys I made as gifts for the young children in my family. The ducks are made from some local soft maple and the gorilla is walnut. Wheels were purchased. As the duck is pulled he waddles and the feet move up and down. The gorilla moves up and down and the arms move as well. I think the kids will enjoy them.
For the toys I used the SS jointer, planer, bandsaw, drill press. I drilled the cavity in the duck that houses the front wheels using the horizontal dirll press mode. As usual the Shopsmith functioned flawlessly.
The tray is made from a laminated blank with maple for the bottom and sapele for the top trim. I drilled the waste in drill press mode, routed the cavity with the OPR, cut the profile on the bandsaw, and sanded the inside walls with drum sanders in drill press mode (so I could set the height just off the bottom).
