Toymakers Shop Over 200 Axles For Play Pal Trucks
Some people would just cut the axles with a saw and glue the wheels on. Not me. I sand every one of them. They don't look right if the ends are not rounded. I've tried sanding them flush with the wheels, but I found myself damaging far too many finished wheels. Now I only sand them flush with the wheel on those toys where the wheels are easy to finish. About 200 Handmade Wood Toy Truck Axles I cut my axles using a jig, and a 26 TPI Japanese saw. It will cut a dowel with a single stroke of the saw. I've seen all sorts of methods used to cut these with a table saw, or band saw. In my book, this is crazy. The dowels splinter and fly all over the shop. Then there is the issue of the dowels trying spin when they are cut and trying to hold a tiny piece of round dowel while you push it through the table saw. Handmade Wooden Truck Axles After Sanding Sanding Block After Sanding Wood Toy Axles