Animated Animal Toys in Wood

My husband is into making wood toys for our baby boy and I got this for him as his birthday present

Received nothing but compliments on the toys I've made from this book. Highly recommend buying!

I admire David Wakefield's talent for thinking up ways to animate these wood toys. But his book has critical errors in the plans which prevent the toys from operating at all. The Hungry Hippo plan is correct and this is a fun toy. The Cross Crocodile has the wrong geometry for the small piece that connects the two sides of the mouth. If you build it as drawn, the mouth will not close. I had to drum sand and remove enough material to get it to work. The Scented Skunk also has an error. The bottom of the 2 walnut sides of the tail do not have enough relief to clear the main body. I had to get the Dremel drum sander out and add relief because you don't find this out until after you have laminated the tail. I enter all of my designs into Sketchup before I build them, so on other plans I try from the book, I will check rotations and clearances using Sketchup before I build them. So far I have built 3 models, and 2 out of 3 had critical errors, or a 67% failure rate. Be prepared to have to make some adjustments when you build a model, because it appears the designs were not error checked very well.

Whoo whoo, way to go.

The media could not be loaded.  Excellent book for animated toys granddaughter loved her tyrannical tyranasaurus 😊

My grandson has loved these toys. Hope they are around for another generation

I am really enjoying all the cool pull toys

David's designs capture the prominent characteristics of each species, while retaining a simplicity in construction. Clever animation. I built the T-Rex for my grand nephew, it functions beautifully. After finishing it I really didn't want to let it go. There were one or two minor dimensional differences between the text and the drawings. Also, because this design is rather light, it needs to be moved along on a rug to enjoy the animation; a larger, heavier design might be better for bare floors.

This is another brilliant book from David Wakefield

Fantastic book with full size easy to follow patterns.

bel libro con carta lucida,belle fotografie,descrizione dei pezzi con disegni e collegamenti tra i vari pezzi,livello medio per la costruzione

Achei muito bom o livro,se tiver outros com a mesma qualidade e nessa linha de brinquedos em madeira,por favor me indique.Grato

Love this book. So easy to follow