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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Home Business, Toys
  • Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:40:09 -0700

For flea markets, craft shows you need a product for kids than parents and grandparents will buy---and products like jewelry for adults so you get a double shot at selling something to the same traffic.

For the kids, manually-animated or wind-driven wooden toys are great---here's a few, including the wooden gears and gearmaking machines, software the toys will need to make and animate the wooden toys.


http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/pages/freesheep.htm (when pigs fly, this

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/workshop/gears.html (cutting wooden gears on a tablesaw---something you really need to do if you are making and selling animated wooden toys of various kindes, pull, wind-driven etc.)

http://www.dugnorth.com/books_wood_models.aspx (a book showing fifteen visible wooden gear mechanisms to incorporate into your animated wooden toy products for sale)

http://employees.oneonta.edu/sakoult/3d/assignments/musicbox/ (make wooden motion-transfer components---friction-drive, belt-drive---rubber bands work fine for this purpose)

http://naturecoast.com/hobby/uacc.htm (Unimat makes a fine desktop lathe, with numerious attachments to accomplish almost any purpose you have in mind, including a duplicating follower)

http://www.bmumford.com/xyz/details/details.html (basic CNC software to drive a lathe, router etc.---type in your wooden sign inscription, and let the machine do all the work0





  • [Homestead] Home Business, Toys, Tvoivozhd, 10/26/2004

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