Toy Race Cars

Making the axles is the first step for me making toy cars, and most important if you want the toys to roll smoothly. You can buy pre-made dowels. I...

I've turned wheels from most of the hardwoods I have in my lumber-hoard. Diffuse-porous woods are easiest. Hard-maple wears nice and long, so I'll ...

[Image] I tend to make my car bodies pretty close to the template shown. Use whatever wood you have available for car bodies. You can either leave...

The fenders can be made from a template, but if you change the wheel size, you'll probably want to adjust the fenders to match the wheels you've ma...

Putting the cars together isn't too complicated, but here is the order I do things in. Your mileage, as they say, may vary. First I get the axles ...

Note, this should have been first, but Craftisian doesn't have a good way to go back and add a new entry out of order, as far as I can tell. [Imag...