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WIND ORNAMENT sa MODEL & MINIATURE WIND ORNAMENT sa WEATHER VANE sa WIND CHIME sa WIND HARP x WHIRLIGIG xx DECORATIONS & ORNAMENTS xx LAWN ORNAMENT Whirligigs, a marriage of whimsy and precision. How a whirligig works. Whirligig materials. Plans for the "Close Shave" (barbershop) and the "Saturday Night" (bath) whirligigs. Four action toys you can make. (1) Bernie the bobbing bird. (2) Flying Ignatz. Lollipop-like posts that turn as lead sinkers slide down the sides of the frame. (3) Candle-powered whirligig. (4) Little Deuce coupe, a rubber band powered wooden car. Plans may be ordered. Photos of five decorative "things that go round in the wind" made from sheet aluminum and scraps of pine. Cock of the Garden wind ornament. Estimated cost: $22. Windsock is appliqued with windmill and tulip designs. Est. cost: $14. Folk art whirligigs and whimsies. (1) Racing stallions, (2) Swan-in-a-pond pulltoy, (3) Barnyard rooster, (4) Bloomin' tulips, (5) Fighting cats. Full-size plans can also be ordered. Dragonfly wind catcher. Est. cost: $16. "Ollie Octopus" wind sock. Est. cost: $19. Giant sunflower whirligig. Cardinal whirligig. Five easy-to-make turn-of-the-century toys. Alternating figures, acrobat, tumbling clown, rope-climbing bear, and traffic cop whirligig. Four wind-driven garden ornaments are designed to rotate on a heavy wire stand to act as weathervanes. Three wind toys: a clown, a caterpillar and a baseball player. Just Ducky. A duck-shaped yard ornament with wings that turn in the wind. Mountain-climber whirligig. Two techniques for mounting a whirligig are illustrated. Whirligig features a standing fiddler and a seated guitar player with moving arms (when the wind blows). Tumbling Hearts windsock. Gaelic welcome windsock. Failte, the Gaelic word for welcome, is needlepointed on plastic canvas above a lucky horseshoe and shamrocks. The canvas in formed into a tube and a cascade of green and white ribbons stream from the bottom. Leprechaun hat windsock. Hugs and Kisses Whirligig centerpiece. Flower, crafted from painted wooden shapes with X's and O's on each petal and "Hugs and Kisses" in the center, is planted in a painted clay pot. Lollipop look-alikes are painted with Valentine sentiments. If placed in the wind, the flower whirligig will twirl. Whittle up a whirligig. Photos of antique whirligigs plus instructions for building the Butter Churn whirligig. Santa-face windsock. How to make a whirligig. Pattern for a man turning a crank is furnished. Rust-proof, pivot-and-bearing surface for a weather vane, bird feeder, or anything else you want to be rotated by the wind. Whirligig features a dutch windmill and a row of wooden "tulips" on the windvane. How to sew a windsock from bright colored nylon. Bonzo and the Whirlipigs. Whimsical backyard wind device is built from wood and has a clown standing in the center with acrobatic pigs on each end. Whirligig is shaped like a man in a top hat. Windsock and wind ornament is a profile scale model of a P-51 Mustang. Made of Styrofoam and foam-core board, it features propeller blades cut from a 1-gallon plastic jug. Squared pattern for a "running Ronald" weathervane or whirligig. Build a whirligig wind vane. Three designs shown. Washerwoman, woodchopper and wood sawer. Tips on determining the proper pitch for propellers or blades used on animated weathervanes. How to make old-fashioned pinwheels to scare off birds. "Flying Duck" weathervane has rotating wings. Roadrunner whirligig. Includes a table saw jig to help cut the kerfs in the propeller hubs safely and efficiently. Lady in the garden whirligig. She waters her flowers as fruit swings from tree branches and a smaller bird whirligig "flies" nearby. Pennsylvania Dutch barn hex designs decorate the blades of the propeller. Flag-waving Uncle Sam whirligig also incorporates a eagle motif as the rudder. Heading south. Whirligig features a Canada goose with flapping wings and a rudder in the shape of a thunderhead. Forever turning whirligig. A man appears to be turning the propeller, but the reverse is actually true. Tip on using T-nuts as shaft bearings for whirligigs. Dashing Dan whirligig shows a commuter rushing to board the Long Island Railroad for his daily ride into New York City. Wind-powered whirligig causes the jaws and legs of a Tyranasaurus Rex puppet to move. The sawyers whirligig. A cross-cut saw is pulled back-and-forth across a log by two lumberjack figures whenever the wind turns the propeller. Garden windmill ornament. The tapered, octagonal base (tower) requires learning to cut compound miters on a table saw. Whirligig features a gardener shaking his hoe at cabbage-munching rabbits. Easy-to-build mobile in the shape of a trumpeter swan. The plywood wings flap up and down in the wind. Putting for par whirligig features one golfer putting and another holding the flag. Blowing in the wind. Whirligig craftsman Andy Lunde revives a colorful folk art. Includes instructions for the woodworker, an arm-waving whirligig. Triplane whirligig is modeled after the World War I Fokker triplane. Features a rotating propeller and a flapping pilot's scarf. Two whirligigs from history. (1) Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter. (2) Wright brother's Kitty Hawk flyer. Whirligig in the shape of a World War I biplane. As the propeller revolves, the pilot moves up and down in the cockpit. Racing catboats. Four model boats with metal sails are mounted on the ends of a cross-arm assembly. The go round-and-round as the wind blows. Flying duck whirligig has wings that revolve in the wind. Windspinner. Spiral-shaped decoration twists in the wind. Woodchopper whirligig. Kicking donkey whirligig. Donkey appears to kick the bent-over gardener as wind turns the propeller. Wood sawyer whirligig. Fisherman whirligig. A fisherman moves his pole and line up-and-down as the wind blows. A fish attached to the line also moves. Construct a spiral spinner from popsicle sticks. Color in the wind. Make a colorful windsock by combining a nylon cylinder with colorful streamers. Make a colorful windsock. Instructions for one to knit, crochet or sew. Working gnome windmill is also a weathervane. As wind turns the blades, a gnome-like figure turns a crank. The whole unit turns as the wind direction changes. Made mostly of metal. Make spiral shape "whorlwinds". Oil well pump whirligig. Build this American classic design from easy-to-find, inexpensive materials. "Roy at his Workbench" whirligig. | |||||||||
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