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Over the past few years while getting our small horse ranch setup and running I also have been putting my workshop together. It is not finished yet, but I was able to get a new project done. It is a pickup truck that I can use as a jewelry box in the bedroom. The wood is aspen and cherry, the planes are from Toys and Joys. I used the SS to ripe the the pieces to size with a planer blade, and the SS bandsaw for resawing (only had to do a little sanding on the sawed sufaces. Used my RAS to cut pieces to length, and a 10" band saw for the radius cuts.The truck is 16" long

Cute, er, handsome truck, Eric! How long did it take to complete it?

Very Very Cool.

That is a very nice looking truck, Eric!:D

I also like the looks of your busy bench. Looks just like mine!

charlese wrote:That is a very nice looking truck, Eric!:D

I also like the looks of your busy bench. Looks just like mine!

Really NICE! I notice you also like 'shoeboxes';)

I like it!

Something about the way you presented it made me think "I could do that too." Yours looks like a way a real truck would be made, rather than a solid 'sculpture' of a compound shape. Your is an inspiration!

PS How do you like using Aspen wood?

Eric

Welcome to the forum. Out of curiosity are you retired from the auto industry? Great looking truck. I would have a hard time keeping my grand kids from wanting to play with it. Your shop looks like mine, a work always in progress.

Quite nice.
I think I may have a busy bench top down there "somewhere" under all of the piled tools I have not made a home for yet.
The shops took another "hit" to their progress this week when a rental house over in the next county was hit by a hail storm during a 3 inch rainfall. It had an older but solid roof that the hail completely riddled and the ceilings of two bedrooms and a bathroom landed on the furniture and floors. It also made lots of holes in the vinyl siding on two walls. So much for shop time this month.
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Back to wooden trucks. About a week ago I was sitting near a window by the drive-up window of a local McGreasy-spoon when an older pickup truck came through the line. It had a wooden bumper on it but it was not the usual wood plank you sometimes see on old trucks. This one was fully contoured and nicely finished. It had been made up of many pieces and was quite the work of art. I could not say the same for the rest of the truck but that bumper was nice.

Thanks for all the coments , projects like this I really have fun building. I choose aspen because I wanted a near white wood to contrast with the cherry, it works a lot like poplar.I did not keep tract of the time spent working on the truck I was doing other not so fun projects at the same time, but I think 8-10 hrs of actual time over a two week period. I do like to use the plastic shoe boxes, they are great to keep cut off pieces of wood and for project not completed and for just storage. If you noticed the 2 boxes on the bench filled with little cars, Iam trying to have at lest 50 of them made by Christmas to give to toys for tots. I have 10 differant cars that will be made,see attachment.
PS: I worked for Ford Motor Co. at the Buffalo stamping plant for 4 yrs. as a layout inspector.

efmaron wrote:I did not keep tract of the time spent working on the truck

Some stuff should just not be kept track of...