Manual Training Toys for the Boys Workshop

Featuring projects from the 19th and 20th centuries, this woodworking handbook presents family-friendly shop projects from a bygone era. Each project—many of them toys from a simpler time when boys were trained to use tools to create useful objects—comes with a cutting list and dimensioned drawing. Projects include a  New Year's Eve rattle, a cannon that shoots marbles, a kite string reel, a pop-gun and whistle, a bow and arrow, a sword, and a magic box. This evocative guide not only instructs a