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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