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One of the many toy trucks in my collection is this handmade wooden tractor trailer truck, finished with clear shellac.   Order Your Toy Truck Today My Play Pal Collection My Toy Truck Collection If you want a unique, high-quality toy for your child, consider the Wooden Toy Tractor Trailer Truck from the Play Pal Collection. This handmade toy is crafted using traditional woodworking techniques and is made from smooth sanded wood. It is meticulously assembled and finished with clear shellac, ensuring it meets my high performance and quality standards.  The Wooden Toy Semi Truck is made with care and attention to detail. The natural variations in wood grain, color, and knots make each piece one-of-a-kind, adding to the item's character and charm. While your toy may differ slightly from the one pictured in the listing photos. At approximately 7 inches in length, this toy is the perfect size for little hands to play with. It is also sturdy and durable, making it an excellent choice for

  Part of my gransons truck collection.   You can custom order any of these in any color:   GoImagine   Etsy Here are a few variations of the Play Pal Trailer Truck. These are all in my grandson's collection. Inspired by his complaint about the first one, everything he tried to put on it fell off. It was a flatbed trailer simialr to the one front and center. You can easily see. I like the dual wheels much better than the singles, which never looked right. The second change I made was to relocate the hole for the hitch pin so it was between the axles. Changing the location lets me use a longer dowel, and the length of the dowel is less critical. I rounded the front of the trailer so the truck could make 90-degree turns. Originally I clipped the corners at 45 degrees to facilitate this, but I didn't like the look of it.

The Play Pal Wooden Toy Trailer Truck Fleet There are five toy trailer trucks in the test fleet. The 5th one is on a road trip somewhere with the QA guy and could not be located for the photo.  The missing truck. None of my toy trailer trucks to to date have followed the original pattern. It started with the wheels. I didn't think the trucks looked quite right  The wheels for these are very inexpensive when purchased in quantity. So why not. Yep that looks like a truck. When the first truck cab was snitched by my grandson who refused to give it back even to get trailer attached I knew dual wheels were a winner.  Next came the round nose on the trailer.  On the first one I had to clip the corners on the trailer to get it to turn without hitting the cab.  On the second trailer I used a circle gauge to layout the curve and cut it on my scroll saw. I liked this well enough that I'll likely continue to use it. Adding some rails.  I had heard from others toy makers that

Pink Wooden Toy Play Pal Trailer Truck  Car Hauler Pink Wooden Toy Play Pal Trailer Truck  Car Hauler With Orange Bat Car There are two different brands and shades of paint used here. Not intentionally. Someone decided ti would be OK to thin the paint directly in the can and the dark pink was unusable when I got it out. I learned since then that you should never thin paint you want to keep with tap water. Chemicals in the water can react with the paint and cause it to do strange things. Like set up hard inside the can. Forget keeping paint thined with other chemicals. That will not happen again. Not to me anyway. The lighter pink on the trailer is Glidden and the cab is painted with Behr. Both are Oops paint from Home Depot. The Glidden paint on the trailer is flat so I coated it with clear shellac to brighten it up a bit and add a bit of durability. The wheels on the cab are my first "successful" attempt at flush cutting the axles. Successful in that

Orange Wooden Toy Play Pal Trailer Truck  With Dual Wheels & Rail This one is pretty much the same as version 2 as far as the paint goes. I added a low rail around the edge of the bed to keep things from sliding or rolling off. It works ok for small toys and blocks but most of the Hot Wheels cars we have will go over the edge easily. Small wood blocks stay on it quite well. The cab is made from BC plywood. Another experiment. You can make these from BC plywood but if you have another choice don't use it. I tossed several of these in the trash because of voids in the plywood and laminations separating. The trailer bed is constructed from southern yellow pine with a spruce undercarriage. I cut the rails using a Grr-Ripper and my Shopsmith bandsaw. The rear axles on the cab are flush cut. I cut them longer than needed and after they are dry I used a flush cutting saw to trim them and added a touch of shellac. When making the axles to do this you need to have them sticking

The photo doesn't realy do justice to the colors on this toy truck. There are two shades of orange and they are both quite bright. Not Florescent orange bright but very bright. In daylight or 6500K+ LEDs it practically screams orange. Orange Wooden Toy Play Pal Trailer Truck  With Dual Wheels My Shop   The truck cab is made of pine and sprayed with two coats of Krylon, with a light sanding between coats with 220 grit sandpaper—just sanded enough to knock off the fuzz. The trailer bed is made of southern yellow pine, and the undercarriage is made from spruce. The paint is two coats of Anita's Acrylic Craft Paint. They are applied with a brush and sanded in between to smooth things out just a little. This paint covers very well for orange paint. I was surprised. It has the typical dull, flat finish most craft paints have. I added a top coat of Clear Bull's Eye Shellac to give it more durability and shine it up. The shellac popped the color. All of the wheels are br

2017-05-08 18.38.06 - Wooden Toy - Play Pal - Trailer - Truck - Blue - Behr - Paint - Acrylic This box trailer version was painted with blue Behr Oops paint from Home Depot with just a little Flowtrol added.  The Flowtrol slows drying and helps the paint to flow out smoother. Flowtrol doesn't help much when I painting on raw wood with a brush but it helps when spraying on smooth surfaces with an airbrush. House paint doesn't raise the grain near as much as the craft paint does.  I also seems to be more durable than the craft paint. It doesn't rub off like some craft paints. It is cheap and available in a wide array of colors.  Of course oops paint is only available in the colors they have messed up. I check the paint department at Home Depot every time I'm in the store looking for bright colors.  This can of paint cost fifty cents. Etsy Store: http://OdinsToyFactory.com #WoodenToys #WoodToys #WoodenToyTruck #WoodToyTruck #OdinsToyFactory #Handmade

I finished a Play Pal truck test build last night. I gave it to my grandson Odin last night. He is my quality assurance tester. If he likes it we make more. I think he likes this one. He slept with it all night last night. Completed Blue Play Pal Tractor Trailer on my Shopsmith Belt Sander Table I made a few changes from the original plans. The bed is wider. The same width as the 2x4 it is cut from. I could not see any reason to make it narrower and the covers the dual wheels perfectly. I used eighteen wheels instead of ten the plan called for. An eighteen wheeler with only ten wheels just doesn't look right to me. My grandson grabbed the first cab he saw with the dual wheels and refused to give it back. He has a cab in his toy box without a trailer. I made the body and trailer are cut from pine and spruce leftover from other projects. The trailer bed and cab are pine and the trailer undercarriage is spruce. The wheels are 3/4 inch birch hardwood purchased from Craft