The Great All-American Wooden Toy Book

rkh2 · Post by **rkh2** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:05 pm

Just received The Great All-American Wooden Toy Book purchased at Half.com for $1.00 and noted in the preface that all the toys that Norm Marshall built were done on a Shopsmith using mostly the band saw, drill press, table saw, lathe and disc sander. The plans in this book are better detailed than the ones in the Hands Ons plans. Just thought I would pass this information on. Thought it was cool that he used the Shopsmith and mentioned it in the book.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:18 pm

Actually, the editor of Shopsmith's Hands On! magazine talked Norm into writing that book and helped him find a publisher, after Norm won one of the scrapwood project contests Hands On! used to sponsor. That's why several of Norm's designs from that book made it into the pages of Hands On!.

With all good wishes,

kd6vpe · Post by **kd6vpe** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:03 pm

Wow,
What a deal I just bought that book at Barnes and Noble and I paid $20.00 for it. Nick, thank you for in insight that is interesting. I was also suprised to see the picture of the shopsmith in the book. I had no idea I just wanted to get some ideas on making toys and the book looked interesting to me. I am very happy with the materia. I have not tried to make anything yet.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:54 pm

Nick wrote:Actually, the editor of Shopsmith's Hands On! magazine talked Norm into writing that book and helped him find a publisher, after Norm won one of the scrapwood project contests Hands On! used to sponsor. That's why several of Norm's designs from that book made it into the pages of Hands On!.

With all good wishes,

Again: Glad to see you are still around and have time to share, Nick!

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:58 am

Nick wrote:Actually, the editor of Shopsmith's Hands On! magazine talked Norm into writing that book and helped him find a publisher, after Norm won one of the scrapwood project contests Hands On! used to sponsor. That's why several of Norm's designs from that book made it into the pages of Hands On!.

With all good wishes,

Don't be so modest, Nick! Were you knot the editor that you speak of???:D

perryobear · Post by **perryobear** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:50 pm

Hi everyone,

The All American Wooden Toy Book is my favoite book on the subject as well. Norm Marshall's projects in the old Hands On magazine is what first attracted me to Shopsmith.

For those out there who may not be familiar with the book or with Norm Marshall's projects, some of them are still available online. The link below should get you to a copy of one of his projects along with a brief bio on Norm.

http://www.shopsmithhandson.com/archive ... roject.htm

You may want to check it out.

Best regards to all,

Dennis

navycop · Post by **navycop** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:55 pm

perryobear wrote:Hi everyone,
For those out there who may not be familiar with the book or with Norm Marshall's projects, some of them are still available online. The link below should get you to a copy of one of his projects along with a brief bio on Norm.
http://www.shopsmithhandson.com/archive ... roject.htm

Are there more??

perryobear · Post by **perryobear** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:04 pm

navycop wrote:Are there more??

Hi,

A quick search of the Hands-On Magazine archives turned up four toy projects by the late Norm Marshall:

Toy Crane
http://www.shopsmithhandson.com/archive ... roject.htm

California Dream Toys (truck, trailer and bulldozer)
http://www.shopsmithhandson.com/archive ... roject.htm

Spirit of St Louis toy airplane
http://www.shopsmithhandson.com/archive ... roject.htm

Flying Tiger P-40 toy airplane
http://www.shopsmithhandson.com/archive ... roject.htm

The holidays are only a couple of months away, a good time to start building some toys.

Dennis

albie · Post by **albie** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:20 pm

Doesnt seem like a year ago that I built a pair of biplanes from the All American Toy book....
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You might find the bio of Norm Marshallinteresting

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:38 am

Nice airplane, Al!